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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
at the height of the porn biz I was told 11K scenes a year were shot in LA, do the math yourself and tell me what the odds are, better chance of getting hit by lighting I think  |
Let me show you some even more interesting calculations. As we know, HIV is not very virulent. A chance to get it during a straight sex act is about 0.5% (a half of a percent) and it's about 4% for anal.
What does it mean? it does mean that to infect 5 performers, there must be 1000 of vaginal sex or 125 anal sex scenes filmed where at least one person was infected.
Is it a lot or not? Actually this means that 0.6% of all 165K straight sex scenes that were filmed during 15 years (11K a year) were involving at least one HIV-infected performer. Now it doesn't sound good, right? And note that we have counted the documented cases only. Course the real number of infected performers is much more. I'm talking about all those performers who've got lost (left the industry) after 1-2 scenes, so nobody can check their HIV status and nobody knows if they were infected as performers or elsewhere a year before or a year after. HIV has a damn long seronegative period...