Quote Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip View Post
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.
yes, yes, yes - we know all about the fact that tests can not reflect current status however,

we SEROSORT so that our models do not cross mix - pos with pos and neg with neg - its fairly simple that way - and with pos individuals, it is essential that their viral loads are non-detectable or >50 - this minimizes the risk of so-called "re-infection"

as a matter of fact - there is an interesting article on serosorting that was just published and might be of general interest on the topic - http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/550806