| If a "crusading government takes advantage" of the
recent HIV diagnoses
of three adult film actors to "shut down the industry or mandate
condoms," the pornographic film industry will "simply go underground,"
creating a serious public health problem, Adult Industry Medical
Healthcare Foundation Executive Director Sharon Mitchell writes in
a New York TimesOccupational Safety and
Health Administration
should create a "seal of approval" system to reward "companies that use
safe workplace and health care practices," Mitchell says. If companies
such as Time
Warner, Comcast,
Marriott
and Hilton
all agreed to show only films with a seal of approval, filmmakers would
have a "financial incentive" to require condom use, Mitchell says.
Making condom use "financially attractive" is the "only way that we
will be able to further limit the risk of infection to sex film actors
and the people they come in contact with in their private lives,"
Mitchell concludes (Mitchell, New York Times, 5/2).
opinion piece. "Self-policing" in the pornographic film industry "has
worked," Mitchell says, adding that of the 80,000 HIV tests AIM has
conducted since 1998, only 14 performers have tested positive. Instead
of mandating condom use, state and federal health departments, AIM and
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