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Roxx: James Didn’t Show Her a Test

Gene sez: Lara [Laura] Roxx claims in this article that Darren James never showed her his HIV test.

Porn Valley- The out-of-towner, the ill-informed, or hopelessly misguided might think of the San Fernando Valley as the nearest way-station on the way over that range of hills to the brighter lights of Los Angeles. Inevitably though, as Laura Roxx found upon her arrival here in mid-March, it is the last stop in the multibillion-dollar industry that is adult entertainment. She also found that, unlike Hollywood, there are no happy endings.

Roxx tested HIV-positive 10 days ago, after a film shoot involving simultaneous penetration by two male actors. The Adult Industry Medical Foundation, which acts as a de facto monitor of the health of adult movie performers, has said Roxx was probably infected by an actor called Darren James, who in turn was thought to have acquired the virus during a film shoot in Brazil in March.

With the announcement of the positive tests, and the join-the-dots process establishing that James and Roxx had direct and indirect professional sexual contact with as many as 50 other men and women, most Valley studios have agreed to observe the first production moratorium in their history. There will be a two-month break from filming to prevent further infection and establish the health status of those who worked with James and Roxx.

The adult movie industry has been loudly and lucratively unregulated for much of its history. In 2000, an independent research company estimated the industry made as much as $US10 billion ($A13.6 billion) a year from the 10,000 pornographic films then produced. With the growth of the internet and high-speed connections, and growing public awareness of and familiarity with cable television pay per view, it is likely that figure has significantly increased. Last year, according to Adult Video News, sales of adult movie videos and DVDs totalled about 800 million units.

In Laura Roxx’s hometown . . . performers are paid more for condom-free scenes.Other than stated attention to the legal age of its female performers, the industry has operated in a laissez-faire fashion, particularly regarding safe sex.

Since they were in the business of selling fantasy, most adult film studios believed the presence of a condom in a sex scene was more reality than their customers wanted to deal with. In Laura Roxx’s hometown of Montreal, Canada, according to a source at her management company, performers are paid more for condom-free scenes.

In the Valley, where the going rate for most performers is $US1500-$1800 a scene, there was no such incentive, only the encouragement of all but two studios for their male performers not to wear a condom.

As a nod to safety, it was accepted procedure for performers to show each other their test results – conducted every 30 days – to show that they were clean.

Which is what happened on March 24, as Roxx prepared to film a scene that required anal penetration by two partners, Darren James and Marc Anthony.

Roxx says Anthony showed her his test results, but not James. “I wasn’t experienced enough to go up to people and ask them for their test,” Roxx said. “The only person that showed me their test before we had a sexual relation was, unfortunately, Marc Anthony.”

The adult movie industry now finds itself under siege, both locally and nationally.

In California, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the non-use of condoms in the studios as a work-safety issue. In Washington, the Justice Department has trained its sights on the industry, in fulfilment of a 2000 campaign promise by George Bush that his Administration would enforce existing obscenity laws.

It took three years, but the first step towards honouring that pledge came in August last year, with the indictment of 30-year-old Robert Zicari and his North Hollywood production company, Ex-treme Associates, with 10 counts of violating those laws. Zicari faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison and total fines of $US2.5 million.

Zicari’s alleged offence was to sell six videotapes of movies with titles such as Ass Clowns No. 3 and Forced Entry to a postal inspector who had ordered them online in Pennsylvania, where the charges will be heard.

In other words, he not only produced the movies but also distributed them. It is the latter charge that may cause the Justice Department and its devoutly religious head, US Attorney-General John Ashcroft, some heartburn if it is followed through.

The Comcast cable network, an ongoing suitor of the Walt Disney company and its parent, America’s ABC network, offers the pay-per-view option of hard-core pornography from the Hot Network channel as part of its premium package. Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts was co-chairman of the organising committee for the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

DirecTV, the US’s largest satellite television network, also offers the Hot Network as part of its premium packages. DirecTV is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Of the 1.5 million hotel rooms across America, 40 per cent are able to access adult films through their TV sets, and do so, to the tune of $US200 million a year. Among them are the hotel rooms of the Marriott chain, owned and run by prominent members of the Mormon church.

Back in the Valley, everyone’s plans are changing. Lex Drill, a director, has cancelled a filming excursion to Brazil next month. The HIV infection rate among prostitutes in Brazil is said to be more than 90 per cent.

“I don’t want to be a death merchant,” Drill said.
 

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