A porn actress has sex with hundreds of co-stars. And the disease
takes several years to start showing symptoms. How would anyone know
which co-star gave her the earliest infection?
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
Wiki sez:
"In the 1980s, an outbreak of HIV led to a number of deaths of erotic
actors and actresses, including John Holmes, Wade Nichols, Marc Stevens,
Al Parker and Lisa De Leeuw. This led to the creation of the Adult
Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which helped set up a system in
the U.S. adult film industry where erotic actors are tested for HIV,
Chlamydia and Gonorrhea every 30 days-and Hepatitis, Syphilis, HSV
annually. Since the introduction of the AIM testing protocol, adult film
actors have a lower rate of STI's than the general population."
Holmes may have been the most prominent of the actors who died, but
there's no telling whether he or any other individual spread it more
than anyone else. As in the general population, HIV spread from a number
of sources including the blood supply before people knew what was
happening.
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