That resulted in an investigation being opened.Īt the time, Kink owner Peter Acworth said the company was cooperating in the investigation and called the studio’s safety protocols “some of the most stringent in the industry.” The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a complaint against the studio last month with Cal/OSHA, the state agency overseeing workplace safety. 12 email, in which the scheduler said the shoot would be a domination fetish shoot not involving “fluid exchange or skin-to-skin contact.” The email made no mention of the test result.Ī Kink spokesman was not able to immediately respond to the allegations raised by Bay and Stone. “They had me scheduled for a shoot tomorrow, and as far as they knew, I was HIV positive,” he said. Stone said no one from the industry had contacted him about his test results, but that a representative of had emailed him about rescheduling a shoot he had planned with them for Thursday. The industry announced Monday that the current moratorium will end Friday, but said it also planned to increase the frequency of required testing from every 28 days to every 14 days.Īll on-screen partners of the HIV-positive performers tested negative, they have said.Īnother performer, Patrick Stone, who had not previously spoken out, said Wednesday that he received what turned out to be a false positive on an HIV test earlier this month.
He said he too had contracted HIV within the last six months, possibly on set, but declined to identify the studio he had worked for or to give any further details.Īdult film industry trade group Free Speech Coalition, which oversees the STD-testing system, has said it is not aware of that case. Industry representatives have insisted that the three performers who tested positive during that time - including Bay, her real-life boyfriend, Rod Daily, and a third performer who has not been publicly identified - did not contract the infection on set and that frequent STD testing protocols are working.Īn actor who did not identify himself also spoke via telephone at the news conference Wednesday. The adult film industry has shut down twice in the last month as a result of performers’ HIV-positive test results.
The group backed a measure that was passed by voters in Los Angeles County last year - currently the subject of a lawsuit - and a state bill written by Assemblyman Isadore Hall (D-Compton) that died in committee in the legislative session that ended last week. The news conference was convened by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has pushed for legislation to require condom use on all adult film sets. “I’m just here to share my story and to get knowledge out there to people and try to prevent anything like this happening to anyone else.” “I’m not here to push anything down anybody’s throat, I’m not here to fight anybody’s fight,” she said.