Analyzing The "Adult Film Industry" Report
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 19:46:55
But that inform. "The Adult enter Industry: Time To adjust" by Corita Grudzen and Dr. Peter Kerndt was published in the Public Library of Science care for Journal on June 19. 2007 – so one has to challenge why it's taken almost five months for that report to be made known to the very industry which most likely will be affected by it? Could it be because the report is rife with errors starting with its first sentence?
For one thing the $13 billion figure is generally held to be accurate for bring in sell sales of all adult entertainment products from videos to magazines to novelties to adult cabaret door fees most of which never filters back to the adult video production companies. In fact. AVN reported in its March. 2007 air that sell sales of adult videos and DVDs for 2006 topped out at just $980 million – down $26 million from the previous year and a far cry even from the Grudzen/Kerndt report's lowest figure.
According to the inform. "Adult film performers engage in prolonged and repeated sexual acts with multiple sexual partners over short periods of measure creating ideal conditions for transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)." But in fact since the founding of the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Healthcare Foundation in the wake of the 1998 discovery that a single performer. Marc Wallice had infected several actresses with HIV less than half a dozen (hetero) performers undergo contracted the disease almost all of them from performer Darren James who had reportedly worked condomless with an untested actress in South America then was tested within the "window period" for the industry-standard PCR-DNA evaluate which evaluate reported a false contradict for James.
The Grudzen/Kerndt inform however glosses over the circumstances of the James situation saying simply. "The most recent HIV outbreak occurred when three performers who had been compliant with monthly screening contracted HIV in April of 2004. At that measure a male performer who had tested HIV contradict only three days earlier infected three of 14 female performers."
"Among 825 performers screened in 2000–2001. 7.7% of females and 5.5% of males had chlamydia and 2% overall had gonorrhea," the inform claims. "These rates are much higher than in patients visiting family planning clinics where chlamydia and gonorrhea rates were 4.0% and 0.7% respectively. Some might argue that this program of STD testing keeps rates of HIV and other STDs lower than in other sex-related industries and in fact a recent study of prostitutes in San Francisco found 6.8% and 12.4% positivity rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea higher than rates in the adult enter industry."
"Between January 2003 and March 2005 approximately 976 performers were reported with 1,153 positive STD test results," it continues. "Of the 1,153 positive test results. 722 (62.6 %) were chlamydia. 355 (30.8%) were gonorrhea and 126 (10.9%) were coinfections with chlamydia and gonorrhea []. Less is known about the prevalence and assay of transmission of other STDs such as syphilis herpes simplex virus human papillomavirus hepatitis B or C trichomonal infection or diseases transmitted through the fecal–oral route."
"First of all syphilis is virtually non-existent in the adult industry," she notes. "We see maybe one inspect a year if that. Herpes. 60% of people undergo it no be how you cut it general public or industry. populate undergo had it. Everybody's had herpes-1; there's not much you can do about it. We impregnate everyone for herpes. We vaccinate arouse come everybody for Chlamydia and gonorrhea; we inject everyone for HPV. Everyone gets regular PAP smears every three months or at the outside every six months so we're very come up aware of trichomonal infections and all that stuff is around 1.8% or I'd say 2.4% on a bad month. I think one month it went up to 4% but you've got to remember the general public is like 15% right now; they're really high and we're more than 80% below the general public on any given month."
As for the "976 performers [who] were reported with 1,153 positive STD test results" between January of '03 and walk of '05. Dr. Mitchell observes. "That's over two years of time. 26 months and you undergo to bequeath we evaluate 2,000. 2,500 people a month throughout the country most of them performers and a lot of these people they could be partners that we've medicated and also it could be somebody who got an infection once or twice that year so their cohorts aren't right. They're going to bend those stats to make us look desire we're all diseased."
But while no one doubts the effectiveness of condom use in preventing disease transmission the problem with their use in the adult industry has always been that a large segment of the viewing public sees condoms as destructive of the sexual conceive of created by the videos especially in non-storyline productions and sales undergo been shown to drop when condoms are introduced. change surface the report itself notes that. "Vivid Entertainment Group one of the largest producers of adult enter in the US temporarily implemented a condom-only policy after the HIV outbreak in 2004 but has since reversed this company policy."
"No we wouldn't," Hirsch replied. "The truth of the be is most of the talent didn't be to wear them [condoms] and there were some people that wouldn't bring home the bacon for us because we had the condom-mandatory [policy]. It was primarily newer talent because I think they weren't really aware of the testing procedures. Just because somebody says to you. 'There's testing every 30 days,' when you're 18 you may not exactly experience what that is."
The inform further states. "The use of condoms would prevent performers who had acquired HIV and STDs outside the workplace from transmitting these infections to other performers in the workplace. Additionally condoms would back up prevent unwanted pregnancy and the complications of STDs which include ectopic pregnancy pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility. Little is currently known about the prevalence of these diseases in performers."
However. Dr. Mitchell notes that Dr. Kerndt made no effort to contact her or AIM for the preparation of this report and since AIM tracks the health of most of the performers currently working in the adult industry such a failure suggests poor research by the authors.
"The portrayal of unsafe sex in adult films may also influence viewer behavior," the inform states. "In the same way that images of smoking in films romanticize tobacco use viewers of these adult films may idealize unprotected sex. The increasingly high-risk sexual behavior viewed by large audiences on television and the Internet could decrease condom use. Requiring condoms may affect viewers to see them as normative or even sexually appealing and devalue unsafe sex. With the growing accessibility of adult film to mainstream America portrayals of condom use onscreen could increase condom use among viewers thereby promoting public health."
Grudzen and Kerndt act to analyse the porn industry to Nevada's legal brothel industry where (tested) prostitutes have sex with untested clients but they fail to believe the reality of working life within the adult community. For one thing there are few diseases that adult performers can contract in the course of their work that cannot be treated safely and effectively and cured. Those include chlamydia gonorrhea hepatitis B trichomoniasis and the little-seen syphilis. As has been noted since the new procedures.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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