After a porn actor allegedly contracted HIV on set, Nevada is thinking about requiring the adult film industry to meet the same safe-sex standards that are enforced in brothels, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
State health officials made the announcement after it became known that a male porn actor likely contracted HIV during an unprotected sex scene with another man filmed in September in Nevada.
Officials said that since Los Angeles enacted stricter laws regarding condom use on porn sets, more adult film companies have been shooting in Nevada.
In August, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has led the charge for enforcing condoms in porn, filed its first complaint in Nevada against a porn company for unsafe sex filmed in that state. The case involves San Francisco-based Kink.com studios, and Nevada health officials are currently investigating the complaint.
Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal, though it is strictly controlled. According to the Daily News, Nevada’s health regulations on licensed brothels require “each patron to wear and use a latex prophylactic while engaging in sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact or any touching of the sexual organs or other intimate parts of a person.”
For more about the porn actor testing positive in Nevada, click here.
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