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What do Pornstars say about risk of HIV and compulsory use of condoms?

What does Jessica Drake, one of the most popular actresses in adult films today, winner of two top honors at last year’s Adult Video News awards — including Best Actress — and a member of the industry’s Hall of Fame say?

Fear of HIV galvanizes activists, performers
Jessica Drake, a prominent adult film star, said that “for me, personally, using condoms is the right choice.” And while she said it was possible that the use of condoms “might hurt our sales,” she said she had heard no objections from her fans.

Media Hype?
It was the first publicly reported HIV infection in five years in an industry whose workers engage in hundreds of sex acts a year, some of which most people would readily characterize as extreme.

Jessica Drake said it is “a matter of personal choice — my body, my choice.” She goes all-condom, all the time, yet she is one of the most popular porn actress.

Even so, Drake has appeared before state lawmakers to testify against requiring the use of condoms, saying it was “a matter of personal choice — my body, my choice.” In an interview, she objected that reports of the positive test last year were “sensationalized by the media” and were being used to club the industry into submission.

“Even one positive HIV test is a very serious matter,” Drake said, but “the general public heard words like ‘outbreak’ and ‘epidemic,’” even though it was the first publicly reported HIV infection in five years in an industry whose workers engage in hundreds of sex acts a year, some of which most people would readily characterize as extreme.

If anything, she said, that case proved that “our testing system does work” because it “prevented further exposure.”