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Several adult movie companies - including the industry's largest, Vivid - said they would stop filming after two stars tested positive for HIV.

The shutdown followed an urgent plea by health advocates to halt unprotected sex in the porn industry. The positive tests have sparked a mix of anxiety and indifference at porn movie sets, talent agencies and testing clinics.

Vivid and other companies announced that they would stop filming in hopes of heading off an outbreak of HIV in the multibillion-dollar business.

Production would stop until people who had acted with porn star Darren James and actress partner Lara Roxx could be tested, company officials said.

James, the first porn actor to test positive for the virus since 1999, had a "stellar record" of tests - negative every three weeks for the past seven years, said Elizabeth Mitchell of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) Foundation.

Dr Mitchell said James may have contracted the virus about four weeks ago while filming in Brazil on a "non-condom" set.

The Los Angeles-based industry, which normally shoots three to four films a day, must now wait 60 days to learn whether the deadly virus spread to 14 actresses who had on-screen sex with James, or to the 35 sex partners the women subsequently had.

The call for a halt to filming of sex scenes without a condom was made by AIM, which listed on its website about three dozen actors who may have been exposed to the virus recently, and urged them to get tested.

Sinamotion Pictures, along with a few others, allow actors to use condoms during filming, although filmmakers say their use "kills the fantasy" and performers are often paid more to perform without them.

On Thursday, porn stars streaming in and out of the foundation's office to get tested for HIV said they felt unnerved.

Some pored over a flier handed out by AIM that named those who had sex with James since his last clean test, and those who had sex with James's sex partners, looking for people they know.

"I haven't worked with any of them, thank God no," said one actor after reviewing the list.

Summer Tyme, 25, said she had worked in the industry only two months, and that the news had rattled her. "I'm going to change the way I do things now - probably just girl-on-girl shoots. Guys, but with condoms. No money is worth risking your life."

James, friends said, was stricken by the news. "He's resting and lying low. He's very sad," Dr Mitchell said.

Roxx was a relative newcomer to the industry, health advocates said, and appears to have performed with only two or three actors before being tested positive on Thursday.

She had not worked for the last few days because she felt ill, probably a consequence of the onset of the viral infection, AIM said.

Several producers said they were stopping production. One of them is Jill Kelly Productions, a Hollywood company that makes four to eight movies a month.

"We're not shooting until June 8," said owner Jill Kelly. "The most important thing is safety. Safety comes before money."

Despite the HIV scare, Ms Kelly said, porn workers were still sexually healthier than non-porn people who are promiscuous.

"People are aware about their health in this industry," she said. "People are safer [in porn] than going out to a bar and having a one-night stand."

Los Angeles Times, Reuters

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That formatting broke my face.

If she does have HIV I'm sure the price of the video in which she got it (presumably the first time after brazil they ACTED together) will go up a fair bit.

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That formatting broke my face.

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Blame Reuters

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I blame your mother.

For the formatting.

Not the HIV scare.

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They mentioned it on the teasers for the news last night ("PORN STARS DYING! Find out why at 11! Coffee can kill you - find out how!") then this morning there wasn't a goddamn thing about it anywhere. I tivo'd Today and the local Fox news, not a word.

Actually, they didn't say anything about Porn stars, just something like "Actors quarantined, movie sets shut down industry-wide" blah blah. Goddamn, I hate those teaser things. After the last earthquake here, the next day the fucking news channels were vying with each other to make you believe they had caused the fucking thing. "The whole planet was rocking and rolling, and channel 7 I'mwitless News was there!" Though it was MUCH worse when I lived back east. The SF news channels are actually pretty laid back but they've started doing that shit lately.

Damn, and I was going to fuck a porn star for lunch. Guess I better make other plans.

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I just hope it hasn't already spread to the Suicide Girls .

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I just hope it hasn't already spread to the Suicide Girls .

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terrorists?

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I blame your mother.

For the formatting.

Not the HIV scare.

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This whole thing sort of takes the aesthetic charm out of bukkake, doesn't it?

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When did Fefe start doing porn??

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I dunno, when did porn start?

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Does that mean I can blame your mother for your fucking hair?

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holy shit, I feel horrible for laughing, but the names and format of this quarrantine list are just too funny.

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that sucks, big time

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I already thought it was a regulation of the porn industry to require all men to wear condoms? That was my understanding after one porn star came down with HIV from a shoot (incidentaly, she contracted the disease doing an anal scene) way back in the early 90's - mid 90's.

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theres a porn star named sean michaels? how unfortunate for the heart break kid, shawn michaels;(

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Shane started the first "condoms only" production company, but she retired.
Bitch. Who the hell does she think she is wanting a normal rockstars wife life.

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holy shit, I feel horrible for laughing, but the names and format of this quarrantine list are just too funny.

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Sledge Hammer

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Sledge...

Sledge...

Sledge...

Sledge-eroo...
*insert 80's keyboardmusic*

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Absolutely, though those genes come mostly from her father. He's dead so by default it's now her responibility for passing them on.

What the hell are you talking about anyway?
Did you find one of those pics of me with long hair and get jealous?

I blame your mom for teaching you to dress funny.

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. . . That has to suck.

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