Note that there’s a difference between Porn WikiLeaks (which used information stolen from STI testing databases to out sex workers and is down now) and TRPWL, which is just capitalizing on that name to talk gossip about the porn + cam industries, sometimes outing workers in the process. Both of them suck.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous how porn is being painted as rife with STDs when no other population is really as meticulously tested for them.

Thanks, Caty, for the link. I had read that article, but wasn’t aware that it mentioned the same site I linked to.

Nevertheless, this has nothing to do with the point I was making. Again, 6 people were presented at that news conference as if they had all gotten HIV from a porn set. Many simply accepted that as the truth. Many accepted HP’s reporting that Cameron Bay did her first porn scene in July of this year. As I said, you don’t have to go to pornwikileaks to find criticism and what appears to more closely resemble the facts. You can go to Salon.

Perhaps this post will also expand on why pornwikileaks is detrimental to sex workers’ rights:
https://titsandsass.com/im-the-sex-worker-who-was-outed-as-hugo-schwyzers-sexting-partner/

JR — A site that outs sex workers because they feel entitled to access databases put there for worker safety (disease-testing and age verification). That should be enough expansion for you.

Condoms are a choice already. The problem is, there are so few companies that shoot with condoms. So you can feel free to shoot only with condom companies, but you’re just not going to get a lot of work. In my opinion, the only possible way mandatory condom laws would ever work is if it’s US-wide, and actually enforced. Because it’s not enforced now, so no one listens, and if it was they’d just move cities. Unlikely they’d move out of the country though, so in my opinion that’d be the only way to get condoms in porn.

The last on-set HIV transmission was about 9 years ago, that’s true. There’ve been performers who’ve caught HIV, the test showed that, but didn’t transmit on-set, such is the case now. However, other STDs are quite common.

?? Care to expand on that?

Ironically, porn wikileaks is a porn industry problem that harms the safety of its workers.

You’re not at all alone in this–I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they really wanted to buy into the Kink.com ethos and now they curse their enjoyment of the porn.

Ughhh, comments on any article on sex work on a mainstream site are serious threats to our mental health.

Oh, great idea re: a porn round table on condoms in the industry! I don’t know why this hasn’t occurred to us! I’ll start asking around.