The topic is obviously serious and very important. It is also quite technical … and I imagine that most of us don’t really feel that we have much to contribute to the discussion.

I’ll just say this: There are clearly plenty of bastards in the industry who couldn’t care less about the mental and physical well-being of the actors – and plenty of naive, uninformed or just plain desperate men and women who will accept the unacceptable with regard to working conditions and safety. As long as that is the case it’s hard to imagine that things will really improve. And the current economic crisis which has made work very scarse for porn stars can only make mattters worse.

As for the idea that safer sex practises should be made compulsory in porn … well … I guess that would just move the production to other countries.

And let’s be completely honest: would you choose to watch condom clad porn from California or “the real thing” made in Brazil or Hungary? I known that I would choose “Budapest cum whores 7″ every time. I know I shouldn’t … but the less reflected parts of my anatomy would be making that call.