And you thought Ashcroft was bad for the porn industry? The US adult film industry is about to take an unprecedented two-month hiatus, after a top actor, Darren James, tested positive for HIV. A who-woulda-thunk-it organization called the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation is on the case, releasing lists of actors who have been “quarantined.”
This could end up doing for porn what the steroid scandal is doing for baseball- and it’s also likely to eventually lead to government action. Certain conservatives have wanted to all but shut down the porn industry for years; this should give them an opening.
At any rate, stories about porn are usually funny, but this sure ain’t.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 16, 2004 04:28 PM