What Jim South has to say about the recent HIV case
Written by Jade at the xxxworldofporn.com
Since this is my first interview, I would like a little forgiveness for any mistakes that might have been made in the course of this interview…
What’s the main question that you have for AIM Jim?
Jim- First of all I was confused because I thought that AIM made people sign a release form when they did their monthly tests, that allowed the industry to know the names of the people who are quarantined.
What is one of the major concerns with AIM not revealing the names?
Jim-The concern with AIM giving us a list of names is that the talent wants to know if they were exposed to the HIV virus, by working with the person who had tested positive for HIV.
What did they do in the old days regarding testing?
Jim- In the old days everybody who was tested, was contacted if there was a problem.
Example: a girl was quarantined and the girl who was quarantined was honest about being quarantined, because her current HIV test was still good. So I could have booked her for another shoot because I wouldn’t of known that she had been quarantined.
Is HIV something that most XXX performers need to worry about?
Jim- Anything’s possible we could be hit by a comet it can happen. 8,000 movies were released last year, with 4 sex scenes per movie that’s 32,000 for the year, as far as we know there has only been one case that’s been proven since 2004, no matter what the media says about the other supposed unreported cases. Porn performers are still safer then the General Public in regards to HIV and AID’S.
Why do you think in the 90’s that most of the people who tested positive in the XXX industry were men?
Jim- Because a lot of men back then were drug users who were using needles, but
Do you think that government funding and testing every two weeks, with the talent not having to pay out of their pocket, might be a better plan?
Jim- Of course, they are making a huge income off the taxes from the talent, so why can’t they have a stimulus package for an HIV test in the XXX industry?
Do you think the government knows about condoms having microscopic tear’s but doesn’t care because they might be receiving kick backs from the major condom corporations?
Jim- No! The tears are possible, but I have no idea why the government won’t say anything about the microscopic tears in condoms.
Do you think that some of the talent is practicing unsafe sex practices outside of the XXX industry?
Jim-Some, sure of course, everybody within the industry need’s to look out for everybody in the industry… It’s not just their health they’re jeopardizing it’s everybody’s health they’re putting at risk.
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Jade adds-Jim actually explained to me that it’s easier for a woman to contact the disease, but the people at AIM did tell me that it’s easier for men to contact the disease. I’m not really sure? If anyone is positive on which sex has the most cases of HIV please send a e-mail to the xxxworldofporn.com
“Why do you think in the 90’s that most of the people who tested positive in the XXX industry were men?
Jim- Because a lot of men back then were drug users who were using needles, but”
Hey Sophia, I mean Jade of xxxworldofporn… why did you interrupt Jim here? He was onto something enlightening…
With Marc Wallice it could have been male to male contact as well as needles, because he was in gay porn in the 80s, in fact one of the best known titles of that decade. I’ve never seen the movie, but read that he looked like he was having fun.
The test to determine HIV+ status was originally determined by the presence of antibodies, which is what the body produces to ensure immunity, and prior to HIV, the presence of antibodies was never used to determine any illness, only the overcoming or immunity of an illness. False positives have been occurred many times due to things like pregnancy, the flu and other illnesses, stress, and in particular drug (especially heavy drug)use.
The original two risk groups for HTLV-III (later to be called HIV) were IV drug users and gays, but not just gays in general; ones who were partying hearty, using lots of drugs, in particular “poppers” or amyl nitrate (which in excessive use causes Kaposi’s Sarcoma; one of the 30 or so old and unrelated diseases later linked together under one umbrella
called “AIDS”.
When I say Jim South is onto something in his comment connecting drug use to HIV+ status, this is precisely what 14 year NIH grant reciprient Peter Duesberg mentioned in that video link I put on LIB recently.
The “discoverer” of HIV, retrovirologist Robert Gallo (who stole it from Frenchman Luc Montagnier who later sued Gallo and than settled a 50/50 % split of the profits of Gallo’s patented HIV test kit) who had to use a lot of in-lab artificial means to temporarily activate the dormant retrovirus, once labeled Duesberg as the “Foremost authority on retrovirology in the world”. This was before Duesberg called into question Gallo’s findings connecting AIDS to a virus versus drug abuse.
Luc Montangnier has been quoted as saying HIV is benign (harmless). Even Gallo now admits that HIV needs co-factors to cause AIDS, meaning that, according to him, in and of itself HIV can not cause AIDS. Gallo was also fired from the NIH and the original studies on HIV and AIDS have been shown to be a fraud, as the blind studies became unblinded, with gays dying of self-inflicted recreational drug abuse started “mercifully” sharing the AZT “therapy” drugs with the other participants of the study. AXT literally had a skull and crossbones on it’s lable, was originally deemed “too toxic for human consumption” but was later authorized as medication after ignorant and angry gay groups campaigned the gov’t for a cure. AZT is a proven killer. The healthiest man in the world, taking that drug on a regular basis will die of AIDS related symptoms, thus the treatment for AIDS makesthe HIV=AIDS equation a self-fulfilling prophecy. Meanwhile the AIDS industry, through it’s various organizations have gotten rich raking in billions of dollars per year in donations. They are hardly motivated to study other channels of possibliity of give up their never-ending quest for a cure because they are making way too much fucking money at it.
It’s possible the HIV+ status of transexuals is based on all the hormones they pump into their bodies, trying to become women. Excessive hormones (which is why pregnancy has often rung up false positives) can be what’s causing a HIV+ (or high antibody count) response.
Meanwhile, we use the PCR test in the porn industry. Interestingly, it was invented by Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, who writes a forward to Peter Duesberg’s “Inventing The AIDS Virus” book, and states that there is no evidence that HIV causes AIDS.
Why on earth would anyone even suggest that the govenrment, that is the taxpayers, should pay for talents tests? In my opinion, this is quite ridiculous.
The real question should be, why dont producers, who are the employers, pay for any pre-employmnet medical screening like ANY ohter industry that requires any kind of pre-employmnet medical testing. If you apply for a job as a bus driver, it is the company that pays for your drug test, not the applicant.(just an example)
The producers need the tests to cover their assess to make sure they dont hire someone who has something that can be transmitted in THEIR workplace, thereby opening them up to workers comp. and civil suits if they dont have workers comp insurance(see brooke ashley case)
And ‘kickbacks’ from condom companies. This must be ajoke. Comdon companies make millions upon millions upon millions of condoms every year. The entire porn industry, if condomswere used in every shoot, wouldnt register as a blip on the total sales of any condom maker.
And if the government is making ‘huge income’ off the taxes paid by thetalent, then they MUST be makeing even MORE income off of the taxes from poroducers, the EMPLOYERS of the talent. Who dont the EMPLOYERS pay for the medical screening that they require their employees to have.
The “receiver” is more likely to contract HIV.
So, if a man and a woman are fucking the woman getting boned is more likely to be infected. Just to be sure you know what I’m saying–if a guy is fucking a woman and she has HIV it is somewhat difficult for him to contract HIV. It probably would take a cut or lesion on the penis to contract the virus.
Same goes with gay men. The guy getting boned in the ass is way more likely to be infected. Think about it–ASS SEX = HIV.
I’m almost positive that if you’re a straight man and you’re not doing drugs or getting fucked in the ass it’s very, very unlikely for you to contract the HIV virus. Sure, it can happen but only if you’re really fucking nasty skank hoes all the time like Magic Johnson probably was.
“The real question should be, why dont producers, who are the employers, pay for any pre-employmnet medical screening like ANY ohter industry that requires any kind of pre-employmnet medical testing. If you apply for a job as a bus driver, it is the company that pays for your drug test, not the applicant.(just an example)”
And Pychological testing as well, now the are at it, too many nutters.
Yes any other business, the employer tests the employees to declare them fit, not in porn, the employees have to test themselves.
Producers don’t consider talent to be actual “employees.” To do so places the producer in legal liability. Talent are considered to be “independent contractors,” and therefore responsible for their own testing. You can draw the analogy of construction indy contractors, who are responsible for obtaining their own licenses and applicable certifications. Employers define workers as independent contractors so that they don’t have to provide worker’s comp insurance, overtime pay, or other mandated financial remuneration. Of course, even though these laws are on the books in CA, it’s a gray area for the porn biz, which will one day be tested.
Yep, that is why getting info on the Brooke Ashley case is vita. Or contacting Marty Singer, she challenged that in the Kira Kenner case, and got a setlement.
That’s the thing about these types of lawsuits, rics. Whether the state gets involved or not, the cost of going to trial to defend a liability waiver, or any other workplace issue, is so great that there is always an out-of-court settlement (still, usually for a large sum, and far more that any but the big producers can bear). So far…
Axis,
The issue of “IC” versus “employee” had already been settled by the courts, via the brooke ashley case which was finalized in Dec. 2008.
When you are told where to be , when to be there, work under the direct supervison of a “director”, you are an employee. Other facorts include, who provide the material to do the job(lights, camera, other production equipment),and who provides and pays for the location where the work is done are other factors which make the person an employee.
The so called ‘waiver’ to limit the producer liability is worthless. You cannot make an agreement with an employee to violate the law. Legal Workers legal rights are not negotiable in any industry.
“Of course, even though these laws are on the books in CA, it’s a gray area for the porn biz, which will one day be tested.”
That legal definition (see my other post on that ruling) predates the Ashley case, which along with the Kener case were the only ones within the porn biz to address it, to my knowledge. There are still lots of work areas in CA where employees don’t legally cover ICs as mandated, with only the occasional lawsuit to challenge that, yet the state has yet to go after any employer with any vigor. Also, the State of CA doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around on lawsuits these days. I’ll wager that when/if it does occur, it’ll involve a big porn company with deep pockets.
Still waiting for you to link info on the Ashlee ruling…
“is so great that there is always an out-of-court settlement (still, usually for a large sum, and far more that any but the big producers can bear). So far…”
The ambulance chasers are waiting. Anyone has contact Michael Fattorosi or XPT Paperchse to ponder on this?
What I’m curious about is who’s writing English for Sophia Mounds now (Jade is her real name and xxxworldofporn is her site)?