"I didn’t want to see a whole army of people sitting at this table," said James, who now works for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "This industry has failed and continues to fail. We all need to wake up."
When Bay found out she had HIV on Aug. 21, the Free Speech Coalition, which oversees a database of all adult fílm performers' STD tests, placed a moratorium on pórn shooting. Six days later, the organization lifted the moratorium.
A week after pórn shooting had resumed, Bay's boyfriend, Daily, announced that he had tested positive for HIV. Two days after Daily said he was HIV-positive, another performer, who wasn't identified, tested positive. That prompted the Free Speech Coalition to impose a second moratorium.
The Free Speech Coalition announced this week that it would lift the second moratorium on Friday. It also said it will begin requiring STD testing of performers every 14 days, twice as often as before.
The Free Speech Coalition maintains that the three performers who recently tested HIV-positive -- Bay, Daily and the anonymous man -- did not contract HIV on a fílm set.
LA voters in November passed a measure mandating cóndom use in pórn, despite a large, coordinated campaign against it by the pórn industry. Industry insiders say there has been no enforcement of the new law.
The law was authored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which maintains that no amount of testing is safe without cóndom use. "It's like trying to prevent pregnancy with a pregnancy test," said foundation communications director Ged Kenslea.
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