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In the midst of battle over condom law, adult industry group calls for a nationwide halt on production.
Abby Sewell
LA Times
August 25, 2013
Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based trade organization for the adult film industry, said Thursday that a 28-year-old actress who uses the screen name Cameron Bay tested conclusively positive for HIV.
The coalition had issued the call for a moratorium a day earlier, after preliminary test results came up positive.
Although the industry association maintained there was no evidence Bay had contracted the virus on set, the scare added fuel to an ongoing legal battle over a Los Angeles County measure passed by voters last year requiring porn actors to wear condoms.
Mark Schechter, owner of Adult Talent Managers L.A., which represents Bay, told The Times that she went in for her regular screening for sexually transmitted diseases on Monday and that the results came back inconclusive. She had a second test Tuesday with a new blood sample. Preliminary results came back Wednesday as potentially positive for HIV.
Free Speech Coalition said Thursday that separate tests by Cutting Edge Testing and Talent Testing Services confirmed the result.
Bay’s previous test — which was negative — took place July 27, Schechter said, and she had done shoots since.
Schechter said Bay was “distraught” but was cooperating with medical personnel to make sure her partners were notified as quickly as possible.
“As difficult as this news is for me today, I am hopeful that no other performers have been affected,” Bay said in a statement. “I plan on doing everything possible to assist the medical professionals and my fellow performers. Following that, my long-term plan is to take care of myself and my health.”
An HIV positive test can leave an adult performer out of a job while faced with costly medical treatment.
“There’s no health insurance, there’s no union; there really isn’t a safety net,” said Aurora Snow, a recently retired adult film actress. “… I feel really bad for her. It’s got to be really tough to get that kind of news.”
