Adult performer Mark Anthony, who has been added to the "first-generation" quarantine list because of a double anal scene with Darren James, on Monday addressed the risks involved in doing double anal.
James tested HIV-positive last week.
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"The way I respond to it is it's the same risk as any sexual act. I don't think there's any more risk doing single anal, or anything else," he said. "At the time when I did the scene with double anal (in Los Angeles), everybody there had a current negative PCR-DNA test."
Anthony said that performer Lara Roxx, who also tested HIV-positive last week after working with James, was given a choice whether to do a double-anal scene with he and James on March 24, and he did inform Roxx's agent ahead of time of the nature of the scene. The chances of Roxx giving the virus to James are extremely remote, sources say.
"I read she was saying I didn't tell her agent that she was doing double. I did tell her agent that I was doing double anal, and that was the only scene I had available," Anthony told AVN.com. "She thought she was doing a d.p. I explained to her I wasn't shooting d.p. scenes that week, that I was shooting double anal and if she didn't want to do it, I didn't have anything else for her.
"Maybe it was a miscommunication between her and her agent. … I don't want to say anything bad about her, but at same time, I do want to get the correct information out."
Anthony, who traveled to Brazil with James for two weeks in late March, said they shot about 20 scenes during that period. Anthony estimated that James worked with 10 to 15 different women. Anthony said that he personally did not have any sexual contact with anyone off the set, but that he could not speak for James' personal activity.
Anthony said at this point that several possibilities remain regarding how James contracted the virus — including from work in Brazil or Los Angeles, or from his personal life in both places.
"Right now the assumption is he got it from Brazil, but we don't know that for sure," Anthony said.
