AIDS is out of control in India they say. It's also a significant problem in Africa and played a part in the recent elections; is a problem in Haiti, Guyana and other countries in the Caribbean.
The upshot of it is that it's going to kill a lot of people in the devolving economies of this world. AIDS medication is a battleground between US pharmaceutical companies that wish to recoup their expensive R&D and make a profit versus the morality of saving lives. A lot of people are caught in the crossfire, waiting. This is a disaster that is going to consume a lot more of the human population than people are giving it credit. I strongly feel that everybody in the more developed world is looking at this as a fire on the opposite bank of the river; perhaps we are seeing this as a form of passive 'culling' of 'excess human population'? One wonders at the callousness of the 'First World' with their copyright laws and patent laws denying many people medication. However the repercussions of AIDS, in the coming years will be economic and severe.
What, we have to qualify it as 'adult porn' now?
While we're on the subject of AIDS and all that, and okay it's smoke, but it's also oddly amusing and I can't avert my gaze, and all that. An HIV scare has hit the adult porn industry (as opposed to the child porn industry, I guess) and everybody is running for the covers.
The Los Angeles-based industry, which normally films three to four films a day, must now wait 60 days to learn whether the deadly virus spread to 14 actresses who had onscreen sex with James, or to the 35 sex partners the women subsequently had.In my humble opinion, porn is a dish best served fresh, for there is nothing more sad than old porn (unless of course you're into that vintage black and white thing). So this, must be a big disaster for *everybody*. :)
The at-risk actors have been quarantined until June 8, and Mitchell has advocated a moratorium on shooting until the extent of the infection is known.
Former porn actress Jill Kelly, founder of Jill Kelly Productions Holding, Inc., said she and most other film producers have halted production for the next two months.
- Art Neuro