Quote Originally Posted by Jasun View Post
Bill, I'm not really thinking of the companies such as yours that use, from what I've been lead to believe, only models who are HIV+. I didn't single you out in that post because I'm not really thinking of your company. I don't think any of your movies have ever featured young men being infected.

I actually get a kick out of some of your stuff. I think you've had some ideas that are rather clever, to be honest, and as long as you stick to the policy of only using models who are HIV+, I'm all for it.

I don't think you've ever suggested that barebacking is shocking, revolutionary or ground-breaking. I'd call you on it if you did. I DO think that you could put that tag on some of the movies you've done (the Cumhole competition comes to mind) but not because of a lack of condoms.

(and for the record.. I was not "hitting on" a member of your staff. I think "flirting with" would be a better characterization. :jasun: )
Jasun,

Thanks, you have my apologies. Guess I jumped the gun on that. Any, yep, I'll accept the "flirting" as oppsed to "hitting". He's still talking about that so you certainly made an impression.

And, I'll agree that the "tag" could be placed on the Cumhole Competition. Actually, we've never done that again and what I do find particularly disgusting within the bareback side of the industry are the 20 load and then 30 load and 50 load weekends. That's a bit over the top even for us.

And Chip, just as a point of clarification, and please correct me if I'm wrong, the issue of....what is referred to as a "super-infection" has, to the best of my knowledge never been proven. Their is a lot of literature that talks about the "possibility" of it, but everything I've read about it, and as a person with HIV, I stay pretty updated on HIV research, all I've ever seen is that it is referred to as a theory and possibility, especially if the particular strain of the HIV virus that is common place in remote parts of the world every begins to spread here within in the United States. At this point, the number of individuals who have been diagnosed with that strain in this country as to not even being counted in the statistics.

No model shoots for us who isn't fully aware of all of the risks involved with having unsafe sex. While I've never confirmed or denied that our models are HIV+, I can tell you that if a prospective model tells us that he is HIV negative and wants to become infected on our set, their is a better chance that China will become a democracy and George Bush will be their President than the prospective model will ever be involved in one of our productions.

If we can ever figure out a way to test the models on the day of the shoot and get the results immediately, we'll be doing it. But, at this point we haven't had any luck accomplishing this. We've even requested the permission to use the test known as OraSure, but it's only available to doctors offices and clinics who test for HIV.

As for the other STD's, of course we are concerned, especially HEP-C, and we spend a lot of time talking with our models about these issues.

If you guys are at the show in LA, hope you are having a blast. Two of our guys, Lee and Luis are there, be sure to say "hi" if you see them.

Bill