Third Porn Actor Tested Positive for HIV; Industry Proposed to be Closed

Third porn actor tests positive for HIV resulting to a proposed closing of the said adult film industry, according to LA Times.

The HIV case the prompted the new moratorium on shooting in an adult film industry involves a third performer, an industry group has confirmed. Last month, an actress who goes by the screen name Cameron Bay tested positive for HIV, prompting a weeklong revolutionary halt on shooting in the industry.

On Tuesday, a second performer, Rod Daily who performs primarily in gay porn but is romantically linked to Bay, announced that he had also tested positive. Daily told the Los Angeles Daily News that he took his test at a clinic in Arizona unaffiliated with the industry STD testing system, and the Free Speech Coalition initially said it had not been formally notified of the case.

The coalition called for a new moratorium on Friday afternoon, saying it had been notified that another performer had tested positive for HIV but it was not immediately clear whether that performer was Daily or a third person. Free Speech Coalition spokeswoman Joanne Cachapero said late Friday that the new case involved a third performer.

The group said in a statement that the performer whose case prompted the current moratorium had not done a shoot since before the first moratorium. The industry required performers whose last STD test was prior to Aug. 19 to be retested if they wanted to continue performing. The coalition said it would cover the cost of retesting for the performer's partners.

"While we don't have evidence to suggest an on-set transmission as opposed to a transmission from non-industry (off-camera) related activity, we are taking every measure to determine the source and to protect the performer pool," the coalition said in the statement.