A trade group representing producers of pornographic movies in Los Angeles called sexual partners of a porn actor to be tested for the virus that causes AIDS after he was declared positive for HIV, according to Reuters.
However, the group the Free Speech Coalition stepped short of calling for a moratorium on adult film productions. A series of tweets on Tuesday from the account of an actor who goes by the stage name Rod Daily saying that he had contacted the virus "appear to be real," the coalition said in a statement.
The group said it cannot confirm yet whether Daily truly had contacted the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, but it warned his partners to be tested. As of late, Daily could not be reached for comment. But if the tweets are accurate, Daily would be the second adult film actor in less than two weeks to have contacted HIV infection.
On August 22, the trade association confirmed that the actress who goes by the name of Cameron Bay was also infected with HIV. Daily has been linked romantically to Bay on the adult film industry website XBiz.com.
"Daily's reported infection shows the need such a regulation," said California Assemblyman, Isadore Hall. Hall has been trying for months to get a bill passed in the state Assembly mandating the use of condoms in sex scenes.
"This is the second individual within a week and a half to contract HIV in the industry," said Hall, a Democrat. "There will probably be more." The multi-billion dollar adult film industry is centered in the San Francisco Valley area of Los Angeles.
The Free Speech Coalition said in an email to Reuters that Daily acted in gay and transsexual sex movies in which condoms were used.
After Bay tested positive, production was shut down for about a week. But as of early evening on Tuesday, no order to cease shooting sex scenes had been issued.
