As more major production studios halt production in the wake of one performer testing positive for HIV, activists and adult film stars have raised their voices in support of safe sex in porn.
Hustler Video and Digital Playground now join the ranks of porn producers that have ceased shooting in response to “Patient Zero,” the performer who contracted HIV. So far, the name and gender of the performer has not been released. According to reports, the performer worked in both gay and straight adult films.
Among those calling for more condom use throughout the industry is Jenna Jameson, outspoken advocator for sex positivity and celebrated porn star. Jameson has called the industry a “ticking time bomb.”
“I’m dumbfounded,” she said in an interview for Radaronline. “The fact is that safe sex is not continuously practiced in the adult film world. It’s something that’s left up to the performers and usually the women say yes or no and I think a lot of the women feel pressure to not use condoms because they’re in fear of not getting hired by that company again. It’s very sad and disgusting.”
Jameson went on to say that, when working with performers under her own company, she “always told them that it was better to practice safe sex."
“Is one movie worth your life?” she asked.
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The ordeal of the Chilean miners trapped thousands of feet underground has ended in their rescue, but now they face a new challenge—whether or not to talk about the sex that did or did not happen.
The miners had reportedly agreed to a “pact of silence,” but one miner, Mario Sepulveda, has begun speaking to the press, and he asserts that no sex occurred in the time that the miners were imprisoned beneath the earth. When asked by the Daily Mail Online if any “Brokeback Mountain moments” occurred, Sepulveda said, “No, nothing like that ever went on. We were too busy trying to survive to think of sex. We didn’t really even talk about sex. We spoke of our wives and we made some jokes but we never talked about sex seriously because that would have been too painful.”
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In the latest academic study news, researchers have discovered that the secret to a healthy relationship is (drum roll, please) … ignoring your partner’s favorite food.
Psychologists from Indiana University and the University of Basel conducted a survey asking participants to rate their significant other’s likes and dislikes, food preferences and other general knowledge. They found that younger couples correctly guessed their partner’s tastes 47% of the time while older couples only guessed right 40%—huge difference, right?—and the older couples professed to be much happier in their relationships. So, after viewing the results of the study, the Internet infers that love means “not knowing anything about your partner.” Glad you’re there to translate all this complicated scientific data for us, Internet.
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A Georgia woman whose daughter appeared on a Tyra Banks’ show about teen sex addicts is suing the talk show host for $3 million. Beverly McClendon alleges that the Banks show contacted her daughter on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show's website seeking "sex addicts." The girl was later picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo, flown to New York and put up in a hotel, according to McClendon.
The mom says she filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict, according to the lawsuit.