Press Release from Hot Desert Knights, Inc.

[BoyDollars]

Hi David,

Appreciate you comment. Up until really very recently, getting testing completed and back in an accurate and timely manner was not really possible the way we film.

The issue of testing is one that we have wrestled with for a number of years and have looked in to how to do with what we considered to be a reasonable degree of accuracy. That now exists with some of the new testing methods where results can be almost immediate for certain types of STD's.

We have said many times, and I'm somewhat surprised that no one seems to remember, that testing as recently as a year or two ago had the possibility of creating a false sense of security with the models. As recently as this week, a PSA was released by a well known studio making reference to that issue. We don't agree with that PSA in terms of the delay in obtaining testing results still creating a false sense of security. There is no such thing as safe sex, unless, of course you are having sex where both you and your partner are wearing a baggie from head to to or you are wanking off yourself. The best we can hope to ever achieve is safer sex. We believe that we can now offer that to our models.

The more important question here is the one that has not been addressed until really today. That is, what about all of the other STD's which can and are transmitted while filming that the wearing of a condom during anal sex does not prevent, which in the case of a model who is HIV+, can be life threatenting.

All I can say is that HDK has always cared about our models and always will and that we have always done what we believe the best we can do during the time frame involved.

Bill

Bill,
I appreciate your response. I'm glad to see you are now testing. Definitely a step in the right direction! I just assumed that it was already being done. I hope you and your company set an example for other companies that are not testing.. I to am aware of the other STD's. I mentioned it in my last post on this article: "Would you have sex with a guy who told you he was HIV Positive?". Ironically nobody said anything about it. This is only one of the many nasty STD's out there....

here is the info i posted:
Approximately 20 million people are currently infected with HPV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year.

Most people who have a genital HPV infection do not know they are infected. The virus lives in the skin or mucous membranes and usually causes no symptoms. Some people get visible genital warts, or have pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis.

You can read more here: http://www.cdc.gov/STD/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm#common

[JamesXR]

I've got to say that I'm impressed. This should have been done earlier, but I'm thrilled to see a company take the first step. I was glad to see the screening for so many other STDs. I like that Bill is laying the foundations for a regularly tested gay model network with AIM.
Perhaps someday all gay porn will be shot safely, with solo models in hermetically sealed lexan boxes jacking off, but until then, this seems like a big step forward. In any business, making big changes to the way you do things is a hard decision. It's easy to hide behind everyone else doing it. To get that momentum up and create a path for others to follow is impressive.

So yeah, massive kudos.

[IdolKnights]

David - the steps taken for change and model safety are to be commended. Even with bareback.

And you are correct in that this should have been normal practice some time ago.