I have a studio... we produce one weekend per month. This month we filmed our last shoot for the year, last month we filmed as well.
This morning I received a phone call from a local dept. of health agency stating that one of my models caught Syphilis from one of my other models in a shoot and that I need to prompt all models to get tested.
Well.... in the model agreement it states, "model is aware that he/she can contract STD's including and not limited to Syphilis, gonorea, chlamidia, etc." and the model initials a line beneath that stating that he acknowledges that.
This is a bareback / safe-sex studio. I leave that up to the models. If they want to engage in bareback sex AWESOME! if not, thats cool to. I do supply condoms.
Personally, I would be a complete bareback studio if I could find the models to do so, it's much more profitable.
Anyways, would it be wrong if I asked models to show me a test of their HIV reports and STD reports and they must be less than 30 days old before a shoot? I know that HIPPA is a law, I know about it. Would this invade into that?
I just have a lot of concerns here. This is the 3rd time we've had this problem in the 4 years I've been producing.
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