Rod Daily tweets hes HIV Postitive

[pimpdog]

and where are condoms this fantastic option? condoms don't help against syphilis or Hep C, both incurable diseases. Even the condom makers themselves won't guarantee that condoms work all the time. Read the back of a condom box and tell you that you are confident in the condom being perfect.

exactly, hep c is a scary thing, spreading like wildfire, condoms are just a precaution not a fool proof thing.

[fivekatz]

Good time for prayers or whatever way you put positive vibrations into the universe, IMHO rather than a debate about whether Nancy Reagan was right of if we should all buy stock in Trojan's Magnum.

Best Wishes to Rod Daily in his battle to stay health and medicated.

Does anybody know if his medical expenses are going to be covered. HIV is a bitch that wants all your money and if you don't pay AIDS does collection. Seriously is he covered or should the board start a fund and viral campaign!

[RallyCola]

no one ever said a condom was perfect...but it is another safeguard.

christian...i'm not saying you have to use a condom. i'm a big fan/supporter of your work...but i also don't see a problem with someone insisting that their partner were one either.

my point is that as a porn consumer, watching a hot girl getting banged out is neither made better by raw fucking nor made worse by being gloved up. if the majority of consumers prefer bareback stuff, and revenue in scene sales reflect that, then obviously do what is most profitable.

[ew86riv]

a test that is 2 days old obviously vastly reduces the possibility that someone is or isn't HIV positive at the time of the test. more tests further back give a better picture of someone's health history.

Rally Cola couldn't be more wrong. That kind of argument is like going into a grocery store, buying a lottery ticket, and thinking you are going to actually win.

Getting infected with HIV isn't that easy to do. Think about this, since we started testing in 1999 and then added clam/gon testing and added syphilis/hep c tests, and some companies have made 14 day tests mandatory...how many scenes do you think have been shot?

a million? 2 million? and there have been ZERO positive HIV transmission cases since 2004. ZERO. Testing works...and will always work.

Rod Daily and Cameron Bay contracted HIV off camera in their private lives. When they wanted to do a scene, the testing clinic caught them, and they are now not allowed to work.

Let me say that again, testing works. ZERO on set HIV transmissions in over 9 years with hundreds of porn scenes shot every day!

what's the difference between shooting a scene and catching hiv on set or having sex with another tested performer off camera during a period where a test says you're good to work? between cameron bay and rod daily one of them caught it and passed it to the other. there's no way, in my opinion, they caught hiv in two separate incidents. obviously one person caught it doing something wrong, but they're both tied to each other. i understand why you're saying it wasn't on set, but isn't that a little misleading? it was between two tested performers.

condoms would help prevention of hiv between performers, but i think the testing protocols have to change in some way. just because you're negative one day doesn't mean you don't have it. it could show up at a later date.

[TSMichelleAustin]

Why knowing ur status and knowing others outside of work is a must. You gotta play safe in your personal life not just work. I commend Rod for coming out and taking ownership of this. SHows how great of a guy he is.

[RallyCola]

christian...your argument is tragically flawed because it insinuates that porn stars do not have sex off set. if there have been no on set transmission of disease, yet people in porn continue to contract any STD (not just HIV) that means that again, testing works in preventing YOU from spreading what you may have gotten off set. it is an issue of trust you have to have in the process.

let's put in very simply......What about the girl or guy rod daly might have fucked bareback the day before he popped positive? the person who's asshole he was tearing up uncovered minutes before he got the call from the clinic?

[fivekatz]

SERIOUSLY DOES THIS GUY NEDD CONTRIBUTIONS for medical care?

WE SHOULD HELP, I know we can't begin tp deal with total costs but it would be a start. Nobody would have to face a battle with nasty, nasty virus alone, so you see the dollars would heal well beyond what ever donation any one member could afford

I am not saying the other things people are discusssing aren't VITAL, but they are tactical and Rod Dailey is here and now I guess.

Good time for prayers or whatever way you put positive vibrations into the universe, IMHO rather than a debate about whether Nancy Reagan was right of if we should all buy stock in Trojan's Magnum.

Best Wishes to Rod Daily in his battle to stay health and medicated.

Does anybody know if his medical expenses are going to be covered. HIV is a bitch that wants all your money and if you don't pay AIDS does collection. Seriously is he covered or should the board start a fund and viral campaign!

[christianxxx]

my argument is what are the odds of that? 1,000,000 to 1? 2,000,000 to 1? in order for your scenario to be true

1. rod daily has to have the HIV virus and it must be in a transferable stage
2. he has to be hired for a scene that day
3. he has to fuck someone bareback and creampie them in that scene
4. the person receiving the anal creampie has to have a low enough immune system to contract the virus
5. he has to finish the scene before he gets the call from the clinic.

again, what are the odds of that scenario? 1 in 10,000,000? higher? lower?

Rod Daily had a negative test every month for years. The one time he caught HIV it was caught by our testing center.

[christianxxx]

what's the difference between shooting a scene and catching hiv on set or having sex with another tested performer off camera during a period where a test says you're good to work? between cameron bay and rod daily one of them caught it and passed it to the other. there's no way, in my opinion, they caught hiv in two separate incidents. obviously one person caught it doing something wrong, but they're both tied to each other. i understand why you're saying it wasn't on set, but isn't that a little misleading? it was between two tested performers.

condoms would help prevention of hiv between performers, but i think the testing protocols have to change in some way. just because you're negative one day doesn't mean you don't have it. it could show up at a later date.

I don't understand your argument. how would condoms help prevention of HIV? let me say this again, NO ONE HAS CONTRACTED HIV ON A PORN SET IN OVER 9 YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF SCENES. How much lower can you get from 0?

two tested performers contracted the virus OFF CAMERA. When they went to test so they could perform in porn scenes, they tested positive and were removed from the talent pool. No one else tested positive. Just like in 2010 with Cameron Reid.

again, just because someone has the virus, doesn't mean that he is automatically going to pass that virus on to a partner. Unless he gives her an anal creampie, shares a drug needle, or gives her a blood tranfusion with his infected blood. the HIV virus isn't easy to pass.

Darren James did like 20 something scenes in 2004 while carrying the virus. He gave it to 5 girls, all of whom he cream pied anally. the other 10-15 girls he performed with non-condom did not get the virus.

[LilyRox]

So sad in general...

I'm more disappointed with the industry instead of having compassion for these people they shame them. When many models do the same exact things, escorting, bisexual sex, and other activities. But because it's not their test that showed positive they love to point the finger!

I agree. He doesn't need the media shaming him and making him feel worse than he already does. He is not a weak person. He is a very strong person that just so happens to be sick and the last thing he should have to worry about is hundreds of people calling him out when going through treatment.