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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Robbie I agree with ya about staying off the radar and to answer your question there have been 3 different studies in the last 5 years I published the most recent on my site about a year ago...It was done by UCLA Phd Candidates...It was non biased and scientifically sound...
That study is where my numbers came from but the previous two found smilar numbers...unlike those the most recent study also screened for anal and throat infectionss and found a massively high rate of those that were going undiagnosed as well.
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As I said in my earlier post about that:
The study is obviously using health statistics from a given area (I assume L.A.)
And since performers in L.A. are testing every 2 weeks...then yeah, every little case of chlamydia (which according to everything I read about it is VERY common among all people) is going to show up as a statistic against adult performers.
Meanwhile....in the general public, people do NOT get tested and don't even think about it until their piss starts burning.
So what I'm saying is: those statistics are not taking into account that the general public has millions of people running around with chlamydia that don't even KNOW it (many people show no symptoms at all).
Meanwhile the porn people are getting tested and it's getting reported constantly.
And another thing...since when did anybody really give a shit about chlamydia anyway?
Let's all be truthful here...the ONLY disease that scares the shit out of everybody and the ONLY reason that testing was even started a few years ago is HIV.
If any of us had a "problem" and it came back as "only" chlamydia...that person would thinking: "Thank God!", take some antibiotics and be fine a few days later.
What's next for the govt? Are they gonna come after all the guys and girls who caught chlamydia this last weekend when they hooked up with somebody at a nightclub for a quickie????
Mike, I just don't want them to be taking your words and turning it around into some kind of anti-porn story by saying that even YOU are on "their side" (Meaning the AHF).
And you know that's what they will do. If I were in their PR dept. and read you saying what you said in this thread, I would be sending out mass emails with your words quoted and I'd have you quoted on all of our flyers and in court too.
THAT would really suck.
I'm like you, in that I could give a shit about the L.A. scene. They are too caught up in their own myth to realize that the majority of adult scenes are no longer shot there or by the companies based out of there.
In some ways that perception in a "bubble" works to my advantage. Everybody watches them and THEY are on the "radar".
Hell, when I first moved out west I thought about moving to porn valley. I didn't because I'm scared of earthquakes lol
Now I"m VERY glad I'm not out there.
And if I were those companies...I would seriously consider moving out of California and to another state and keep my company much lower to the ground.
It seemed great out there AT FIRST.
But by being "legitimate" and part of the community in L.A. and "working with" the govt., what has it gotten them in the end?
Fucked.
They have to pay for permits just to have a guy with a camera shoot 2 people fucking at somebodies house? Give me break.
And NOW? All this condom bullshit and regulations?
I would have moved my company a long time ago.
As you (and everybody in this business that is NOT in L.A.) know...there is "talent" in every city. Always plenty of hot girls and a few guys with big dicks who can get it up.
Porn "talent" isn't all in LA
There are plenty of strip clubs all over the world just full of prospective new talent who just happen to not live in L.A.
So that wouldn't be a problem.
I shot the first 2 years of our site in South Carolina for fuck's sake.
I shot all the content for Pure Candy Images content company in North and South Carolina and Georgia.
If I had made the mistake of moving to L.A. in 2008 instead of where I am now...I would have already packed my bags and moved back OUT of California.
This business is tough enough with piracy eating it alive. Who needs all that other expense and headaches and loss of personal freedom? I don't.
If the day ever comes when they make what's happening in California nationwide, I'll just move down to Costa Rica or the Bahamas or some other little paradise. I'll keep myself on the downlow and continue on with my business.
If not, then I'll just exit what's left of this "industry".
