Just as a talent only meeting held on Tuesday continued the discussion of how the adult industry can operate as safely as possible, representatives of talent agencies and production companies met on Monday to help develop solutions for what is undoubtedly the common good of safe working conditions for everyone in the adult industry.
Director/photographer Suze Randall called a meeting last night at her ranch in Malibu to discuss current adult industry health issues. Minutes of the meeting were provided to AVN.com so that the industry as a whole can consider them.
Contributing to the discussion regarding the perspective of production companies on various pertinent issues were: John Stagliano and Trish Deveraux, from Evil Angel, Robert Herrera of Simon Wolf Productions, Jerome Tanner, who directs for Legend, Chris Roos from Anabolic, Vince Voyeur from the Red Light District, and Harley Randall and Humphrey Knipe from Suze Randall Productions
Mike Sullivan, Ben English, and Hannah Harper, representing Direct Modeling, joined Mark Spiegler in offering input from their perspectives as agents.
AIM Healthcare Foundation’s Dr. Sharon Mitchell also participated in the meeting.
The group came to a consensus regarding the need to develop a better protocol for testing both new talent and talent that travels abroad. They propose imposing a two-week quarantine for both talent groups.
New talent, they will be required to take a PCR/DNA test the day they decide to enter adult, then two weeks later.
Talent returning from abroad will be required to take a PCR/DNA test the day they return, and two weeks later. Chain of custody mail testing through clinics and doctors affiliated with AIM could be used to avoid being quarantined, if talent undertakes such testing procedures two weeks before their return to the United States.
The group suggested that talent could be allowed to work with condoms while awaiting the two-week quarantine to pass.
All companies present agreed to pay for talent’s tests for this protocol.
Some of the companies present said they were considering pushing the window period of their mandatory testing policy to two weeks for HIV.
New talent will be required to watch a new version of Porn 101, an educational video about the dangers of working in adult that will be produced in the near future. Talent will be required to sign papers indicating that they have viewed the tape, or perhaps answer written questions on HIV and STD transmission before receiving their test results.
Everyone praised the Adult Dat System(ADS), a database that Desi Benjamin and Search Extreme's Adam Grayson built to track each performer’s work history, so that in the event of an HIV emergency containment could be achieved as quickly as possible was praised by all.
It was also suggested for talent to attend at least one of the monthly AIM prevention educational meetings, the first of which is scheduled for June 2, at AIM.
Today Desi Benjamin donated the ADS to AIM, so that the information will considered confidential medical information, ensuring that it won’t be compromised.
Suze Randall suggested that all anal sex should be shot with condoms. All of the HIV-positive cases in the latest outbreak have involved unprotected anal sex, and unprotected anal sex was the most common theme in the 1998 outbreak.
Stagliano proposed launching a Website where talent and producers could post their policies, and/or complaints. Stagliano suggested that talent who felt "compromised" by their own definition, could alert other talent of any bad company policies. For example, if a company was continuing to shoot new talent without condoms during the two-week holding period, or if a company was shooting abroad without tests, talent could be alerted to better protect themselves.
Producers could also post their policies personally, and put accurate information as to their policies, and type of scenes they shoot.
