California: Adult Film Production to Resume Today

An industrywide moratorium on sex-film production is being lifted nearly a month early, effective today, the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation (AIM) announced Tuesday. Production was voluntarily halted four weeks ago after an actor tested positive for HIV. AIM Executive Director Sharon Mitchell worked with other leaders to test everyone who worked with the HIV-positive actor; three more actors have since tested positive. An additional performer who had not worked with the others was also diagnosed. AIM placed more than 50 actors who worked with HIV-infected performers or their sex partners on a "quarantine list." About of third of those performers have been cleared for HIV and can return to work, said Mitchell, while the remainder have been asked to refrain from working until cleared by retesting. Some insiders claimed the voluntary moratorium was being undermined, as some in the industry -- including at least one actor on the quarantine list -- had already resumed working.

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