The adult film industry in San Fernando Valley in California, announced a moratorium on the making of porn films Wednesday after an actor tested positive for HIV.
The performer was not immediately identified and officials didn’t say when the positive test was recorded.
The actor’s sex partners are currently being tested by doctors with Adult Production Health and Safety Services, which works with the porn industry.
X-Biz, an adult industry trade magazine, reported that the performer with the HIV-positive test is female and new to the industry says the Los Angeles Daily News.
Moratorium: The porn industry in California was shocked on Wednesday by the announcement that a performer had tested HIV positive.
‘The moratorium will be lifted once the risk of transmission has been eliminated,’ Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition, told the Associated Press in an e-mail.
She added that the actor is not believed to have been infected on a film set.
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