Queerty: Penalize Performers Who Seroconvert

masonwthumbReally?

“[T]here can be such a thing as a responsible bareback studio where performers have legal obligations to practice safe-sex everywhere but in front of the camera. If performers seroconvert, they should be subject to the same legal penalties as movie stars who fail to meet their contractual obligations.”

That’s the absurd solution Queerty comes to after an otherwise thoughtful examination of bareback porn and why gay men like it, and how bareback porn studios could/should be regulated by state health agencies. They cite Mason Wyler’s recent foray into bareback work after his HIV status was revealed last summer.

So what kind of “legal penalites” are we talking about? A fine? As if any bareback gay porn star would sign a contract with that kind of clause. That’s like asking someone who smoked cigarettes for a living to sign a contract with his boss stipulating that he not get lung cancer. And what about the performers who are already positive? Are they fired? Also, you needn’t look further than Derrick Burts’ story to understand how impossible it can be to prove how a gay porn star gets HIV, so subjecting someone to “legal obligations” that include promising(!) to have safe sex off camera is as unrealistic as it is unenforceable.

I give credit to Queerty for at least attempting to offer a solution to an issue that’s more complex than just regulating the actions of studios and performers. There’s another component to the success of bareback porn that’s even harder to control: Audience demand.

 

0 thoughts on “Queerty: Penalize Performers Who Seroconvert”

    1. Unfortunately no. He has taken that last depressing irreversible step to being completely contemptible. Any small sympathy I once had is gone.

  1. That Queerty story didn’t make any sense. It was a desperate attempt to create controversy mixed with some moronic opinion about bareback porn and models being positive. It needed an editor or at the very least a 10th grade English teacher to give it focus.

  2. Dah, it is a personal choice. Not the courts or the press. Educate us and let each person make a choice. I love Mason Wyler and I prefer to watch bareback porn. I don’t do it, but I like to watch it. I have Doubts’ as to all the ways hiv is passed due to the high number of infections in the rest of the world. Populations with little public hygine are having that much sex??? Mesquitos, or rituals of rite….. not just sex. Just give us the facts and education about the illness and side effects of the medications. Show movies of people who look sick with HIV haveing sex!!! That would stop people and make them think twice. UNTIL THERE IS A CURE FOR US. You cannot make people stop smoking or force anyone to wear a condom and exercise daily!

  3. Would a mandatory law to wear condoms on set be possible or good? No, studios will just move production.
    Fine the models? No, for reasons invoked in the current article.

    How ’bout this: an extra sales tax applied on all sales of bareback products in the US, including membership fees on websites that actively produce bareback. Something similar to the vice tax on cigarettes in Europe..an extra…50%. Take the “it sales better” excuse out of bareback porn. And because f there is an agency in US I trust would do its job that is the IRS, so it might just work.

    I don’t have anything against people going raw in their own personal life regardless of their status…as long as both partners are informed of the situation. I have nothing against HIV+ models doing porn while wearing a condom. I feel it’s admirable.

    But I am sorry, you don’t get to be HIV+ and do bareback porn. Is it fair? No. Is it discrimination? Perhaps…but so it’s refusing lung transplant to a cancer patient who keeps smoking after being diagnosed. No matter how much money you make out if it, you don’t get to glamorize a deadly disease. You don’t get to teach younger peeps that HIV is something desirable and quite fun. Keeping with the cigarettes metaphor, that would be like a cigarette company making ads on how cool it is to have lung cancer.

    /discuss (or spew some hate whichever comes handy)

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