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AIM was providing a database of proven tests. In other words it was a way to make sure that people were tested and that the tests weren't faked.
Unfortunately, that also means that peoples medical records (the HIV/STD test) were available to every idiot who called himself a "producer" and got himself a Producers login (which is how Donny Long and his ************* got a lot of girls real names and posted them)
Anyway...AIM didn't test anything. Just like Malicks movie...they were "middlemen"
A performer would go to a draw station (just a lab in most any town that was "approved" by AIM) and pay to have their blood drawn. Then the blood was shipped overnight to a lab that AIM paid to run the tests.
And of course...like all "middlemen" the price was raised accordingly to gain profit from each step.
But it was a viable way for the industry to sort of "police" itself...if by "itself" you mean Sharon Mitchell making money lol
But it did work as far as a producer being able to log in and check a verified test of a performer. Worked real well as a matter of fact.
TalentTesting does the same thing.
As for the test...it wasn't a "full panel". It was just a test for Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Chlamydia, and of course HIV
It wasn't govt. mandated or anything like that. It was presented to the industry as a way to avoid the govt. getting involved...though I'm not sure that was ever gonna happen anyway back then...though it does look like they are trying to get involved now.
How much did it "protect" people? Not much. Tons of porn was shot throughout the 1980's and 1990's when HIV was almost an epidemic. Even up until the early 2000's. No testing and nothing ever happened.
Now in 2011 with HIV cases decreasing across the board...we have kinda convinced ourselves that we can't do without "testing" (hell a lot of performers have never known the industry without it)
It doesn't really do a damn thing. Chances are better that a terrorist will come to Vegas and blow up my house before I catch HIV fucking whores bareback (I'm not kidding...google up the chances of catching HIV from fucking a woman with no condom and then compare it your house getting blown up by terrorists! LOL)
And if you were one of the folks who put great faith that a test is going to "protect" you (when you don't really need "protection") then you have to realize that a person could show up on set to fuck you with a 29 day old AIM test in their hand. lol
Anyway, it was a pretty nice set up for our industry to follow the "testing" mantra. And I'm not saying that getting an STD test is a bad idea. Everyone should do it every once in a while just to make sure.
You can get one from Walgreens for HIV for $59 and alleviate any fears you have.
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