Porn films roll again -- without condoms

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Health authorities lamented a decision by California's booming porn industry to film without condoms, despite a spate of HIV infection among its actors.

"I think it is very sad, to resume production as it used to be, without condoms," Los Angeles County Department of Health Director Jonathan Fielding told AFP.

"Condoms are the only way to protect the industry employees and that is what we want, to protect the employees and therefore protect the industry."

The porn industry panic struck in April, when actor Darren James was found to have HIV and filming was stopped for 60 days. Of the 45 actors that had been in scenes with him, three had contracted the virus.

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