Re: www.ukporn-name-and-shame.com
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:06 pm
I have mixed opinions about this.
Performers have a moral obligation to safeguard their fellow performers health as well as their own, so I'm absolutely appalled to hear that tests might be faked by some performer/s, and if it were possible to prove that a performer faked their certs whilst knowingly having an std then there is no way they should ever be allowed onto a porn set again!
However as there is no reliable method of proving this without a blood signed confession written under duress, then it's unlikely that the guilty parties will be found out and accordingly treated. Furthermore it allows too much scope for pettyness and false accusations fuelled by personal issues or even just chinese whilspers.
I've had a bad experience myself so know only too well how fickle people can be and how mindless gossip can have such a negative impact. I had an incident in which a fellow performer told me she had caught gonorrhoa a few days after I worked with her. So I went and got treated and tested and of course contacted everyone I knew who I had worked with - which wasn't difficult as the only porn work I had done at the time other than solo was for one specific company. I didn't have everyone's contacts so called the company and said "I've told these people, can you tell these ones for me as I don't have their details" and was assured this was done asap.
Unfortunately a little over 6 weeks later I picked the same thing up again from the same place and I heard various rumours and accusations flying around, which I had little time for. However I received a call from the company expressing that they were 'concerned' about my 'incident rate' in those 6 weeks. They were perfectly reasonable and understanding however when I explained however that I had only performed for their company alone during that time and (without wanting to sound like Bill Clinton) at the time had no other sexual relations with anyone else other than my regular partner.
I thought that was the end of the incident but then I started to notice strange reactions from the other performers - often very negative and I wondered at first if I was imagining it, but it persisted and grew increasingly worse. People who I had thought friends seemed cold and even at times hostile.
I even had one of the directors phone me when I had a spot pop up on my labia (yes I had it checked before I worked and on the health advisors at Charring Cross Hospital assured me that it was merely a blocked sebaceous gland). But if anyone was concerned - why tell the director or anyone else for that matter?? Why not simply say "Kaz what's that - have you had it checked out?" if they were concerned...not work with me, fail to voice any concerns (when I could have put their minds to rest) and then spread false allegations afterwards :S
Thank God one of them (bless her she'll know who she is) had the balls to ask me to my face if I had an std as she had heard that from someone else who had told her not to work with me. I showed her my cert and also offered to give her permission to get in touch with my gum clinic in Charring Cross if she so wished.
It seems my honesty had been used to condemn me (not that I'd ever be any other way) and if it hadn't been for that girl being upfront and giving me the opportunity to confront the others then I wouldn't have had the chance to dispel the lies.
I agree with whoever said we should have an online system where you can check everyones tests.
Personally I think the biggest cause of std's spreading in the industry is DISHONESTY!
Yes I agree that bareback escorting is dangerous and selfish and anyone doing so should have a re-think about what they are doing! However, I don't believe escorting is to blame for this. If this was the case then humanity would either cease to exist or would be riddled with life threatening diseases seeing that prostitution is one of our civilisations oldest trades next to farming!
Unfortunately it seems some performers are unable to be upfront and disclose the truth when they have caught something. They feign illness or disappear for a while until they are clear - failing to inform those they have worked with of the truth - therefore ensuring the spread of whichever nasty sti is going around at the time!
There needs to be less of a stigma attached to sti's. Ok so you're in the fucking trade - at some point you're likely to contract an sti - deal with it for godsake and tell everyone whom you've worked with if it happens! If we all have to keep taking antibiotics then the strains will grow more resistant, and our immune systems more battered until the situation gets even more serious. Poor Karlie's posts reflect that - I wish everyone could be that open with each other.
I'm all for a system by which we can keep our certs on record and I'd be prepared to put money in towards it. However I'm not interested in gossip, hearsay or rumour. If I think someone I work with has an sti I will ask them!! But just as importantly, allowing yourself to be subjected to chinese whispers or allowing gossip to prosper is never going to have a positive effect on the industry.
Please lets be a bit more considerate towards each other.
Sorry for the long rant but I needed to get it out of my system!
Kaz
xxx
Performers have a moral obligation to safeguard their fellow performers health as well as their own, so I'm absolutely appalled to hear that tests might be faked by some performer/s, and if it were possible to prove that a performer faked their certs whilst knowingly having an std then there is no way they should ever be allowed onto a porn set again!
However as there is no reliable method of proving this without a blood signed confession written under duress, then it's unlikely that the guilty parties will be found out and accordingly treated. Furthermore it allows too much scope for pettyness and false accusations fuelled by personal issues or even just chinese whilspers.
I've had a bad experience myself so know only too well how fickle people can be and how mindless gossip can have such a negative impact. I had an incident in which a fellow performer told me she had caught gonorrhoa a few days after I worked with her. So I went and got treated and tested and of course contacted everyone I knew who I had worked with - which wasn't difficult as the only porn work I had done at the time other than solo was for one specific company. I didn't have everyone's contacts so called the company and said "I've told these people, can you tell these ones for me as I don't have their details" and was assured this was done asap.
Unfortunately a little over 6 weeks later I picked the same thing up again from the same place and I heard various rumours and accusations flying around, which I had little time for. However I received a call from the company expressing that they were 'concerned' about my 'incident rate' in those 6 weeks. They were perfectly reasonable and understanding however when I explained however that I had only performed for their company alone during that time and (without wanting to sound like Bill Clinton) at the time had no other sexual relations with anyone else other than my regular partner.
I thought that was the end of the incident but then I started to notice strange reactions from the other performers - often very negative and I wondered at first if I was imagining it, but it persisted and grew increasingly worse. People who I had thought friends seemed cold and even at times hostile.
I even had one of the directors phone me when I had a spot pop up on my labia (yes I had it checked before I worked and on the health advisors at Charring Cross Hospital assured me that it was merely a blocked sebaceous gland). But if anyone was concerned - why tell the director or anyone else for that matter?? Why not simply say "Kaz what's that - have you had it checked out?" if they were concerned...not work with me, fail to voice any concerns (when I could have put their minds to rest) and then spread false allegations afterwards :S
Thank God one of them (bless her she'll know who she is) had the balls to ask me to my face if I had an std as she had heard that from someone else who had told her not to work with me. I showed her my cert and also offered to give her permission to get in touch with my gum clinic in Charring Cross if she so wished.
It seems my honesty had been used to condemn me (not that I'd ever be any other way) and if it hadn't been for that girl being upfront and giving me the opportunity to confront the others then I wouldn't have had the chance to dispel the lies.
I agree with whoever said we should have an online system where you can check everyones tests.
Personally I think the biggest cause of std's spreading in the industry is DISHONESTY!
Yes I agree that bareback escorting is dangerous and selfish and anyone doing so should have a re-think about what they are doing! However, I don't believe escorting is to blame for this. If this was the case then humanity would either cease to exist or would be riddled with life threatening diseases seeing that prostitution is one of our civilisations oldest trades next to farming!
Unfortunately it seems some performers are unable to be upfront and disclose the truth when they have caught something. They feign illness or disappear for a while until they are clear - failing to inform those they have worked with of the truth - therefore ensuring the spread of whichever nasty sti is going around at the time!
There needs to be less of a stigma attached to sti's. Ok so you're in the fucking trade - at some point you're likely to contract an sti - deal with it for godsake and tell everyone whom you've worked with if it happens! If we all have to keep taking antibiotics then the strains will grow more resistant, and our immune systems more battered until the situation gets even more serious. Poor Karlie's posts reflect that - I wish everyone could be that open with each other.
I'm all for a system by which we can keep our certs on record and I'd be prepared to put money in towards it. However I'm not interested in gossip, hearsay or rumour. If I think someone I work with has an sti I will ask them!! But just as importantly, allowing yourself to be subjected to chinese whispers or allowing gossip to prosper is never going to have a positive effect on the industry.
Please lets be a bit more considerate towards each other.
Sorry for the long rant but I needed to get it out of my system!
Kaz
xxx