Originally Posted by
gaybucks_chip
And Tony, while I respect you a lot, I'm not sure what stringent safety precautions you can take. Even though we shoot safe content, we test every model upon arrival, but the commercially available testing is only for antibodies to the virus, and does not address the issue of the latency period (the time it takes for one's body to create antibodies), which is not less than 60-90 days and by some indications can be up to 1 year or longer. Even an actual virus titer, which is very expensive and not available as a rapid test last I checked, isn't foolproof, since the HIV retrovirus can camouflage itself, and virus levels go up and down rapidly in newly-infected people.