The concrete jungle of Los Angeles can be reached in about two hours from Southwest Riverside County when the traffic is light. Along the way mountains guide your path on the right, and the increased appearance of palm trees swaying in the Santa Ana winds tells you Hollywood is near. Beyond the city is the ocean with its sandy beaches, and beautiful bodies congregating up and down the boardwalks. The attraction of Southern California is many faceted. She draws you in with her sunshine, warm weather, sandy beaches, snowy mountains, nearby desert for off-roading, nature and civilization all bundled up in one, and a plethora of good paying jobs - many of which are attached to the entertainment industry.
Lunch in a cafe near Los Angeles will often give you the experience of being waited upon by a struggling actor. Mass tourism visits the Walk of Fame daily, no doubt secretly hoping to catch the appearance of a Hollywood Star driving by in their convertible, or shopping on Rodeo Drive. Actors fill this town, but not all of them are a part of the Hollywood that you watch on entertainment shows, or read about in the tabloids.
Dreaming of stardom, many of the actors wind up in the pornography industry. Sex is their business, and pleasure is their game. They desire a pristine lifestyle in the Hollywood movie industry, and settle for porn in small dark settings, or hotel rooms. But even in the sex industry, there are stars, and some of those people actually do make a name for themselves in the industry of debauchery.
With a career in sex, however, comes its hazards.
Despite the fact that the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation tests porn performers for sexually transmitted diseases often, the industry refuses to be cooperative with the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Last week a performer tested positive for HIV, and despite that, worked the following day. A second positive result came back for the actress on June 6.
The HIV positive actress had sex with two people during that time, through which those people had intercourse with six other people, and those six surely had sex with countless others, many of which may not even be in the world of pornography. The concern is that HIV could move rapidly through the industry, as well as increase the number of cases in the non-porn population. The industry is crying out that condoms would solve the problem. Condoms are not mandatory for sex performers at this time.
Better than condoms, the ultimate solution would be for the industry to close its doors forever.
In addition to HIV cases, many of which have been unpublicized and not investigated by county public health officials, since 2004 the porn industry has had 2,378 sex actors test positive for chlamydia in Los Angeles County alone, 1,357 tested positive for gonorrhea, and 15 for syphilis.
And if you are surprised by those numbers, don't be. Dangerous behaviors carry with them dangerous consequences.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
More porn HIV cases disclosed - Los Angeles Times, Kimi Yoshino and Rong-Gong Lin II
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