Sore Point

Earlier this week, many Los Angeles adult film studios stopped production after a male performer was diagnosed with syphilis... and lied about it to producers. He was apparently caught when a director noticed that there was a problem with his printed test results and began to investigate.

It will be interesting to see what the fallout from this is in the adult film industry. While most people aren't as concerned about syphilis as they are about HIV, the fact that the performer actively and successfully hid his positive test from producers for several shoots is highly disturbing. Syphilis is a curable STD, but it can have significant health effects - particularly for pregnant women.

In addition, syphilis can be spread through oral sex. That's something that many people don't realize, and it makes you wonder how this will effect the enforcement of condom requirements for adult film production. That legislation, which was aimed at reducing HIV, doesn't mandate condom use for oral sex. The risk of HIV transmission during oral sex is relatively low. The same can not be said for syphilis. Unprotected oral sex is thought to be one reason for the increasing number of syphilis cases seen in men who have sex with men.

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