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Porn star Cameron Bay has come forward to confirm her HIV diagnosis in an announcement that has sent shockwaves through the porn industry. The 29-year-old actress has been told by doctors that her blood sample has tested positive for HIV - prompting a moratorium on the making of porn films in the industry hub of San Fernando Valley in California.
She told Adult Video News that she was 'obviously extremely distraught and in disbelief', and that an additional test will be conducted to confirm the result.
According to Bay, she received her last clean bill of health on July 27. Days later she filmed an unprotected sex scene for a series called Public Disgrace. Her male partner was Xander Corvus who recently shot an adult movie with Sydney Leathers.
In a statement, Leathers said both she and Xander got tested prior to shooting their scene, and both were deemed 'healthy'.
However, the presence of STDs sometimes does not come up in tests for up to three months after exposure.
Leathers released a further statement this morning:"I do not have HIV and have not been exposed to HIV regardless of the reports out there saying otherwise."
Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition, told the Associated Press in an e-mail about the HIV detection:'The moratorium will be lifted once the risk of transmission has been eliminated
'In fact, since 2004 there have only been two cases of performers testing positive for HIV and neither of those situations involved on-set transmission,' Duke said.
'The current situation would bring the number to three cases in nearly 10 years, not just in Los Angeles but nationwide.'
The industry briefly put a similar moratorium in place last year after nearly a dozen performers were infected during a syphilis outbreak.
Word of the latest moratorium quickly drew critical responses from porn industry opponents. Among them was Michael Weinstein, whose group the AIDS Healthcare Foundation successfully lobbied voters last year to adopt an ordinance requiring actors use condoms in the making of most porn films.
The industry, which says its audience does not want to see condoms, is fighting the Los Angeles County measure in court.
Cameron Bay has a wrap sheet of more than 17 charges to her name, some of which were dismissed. She also spent more than a year in prison in Arizona 2007. Her charges range from traffic violations to forgery and aggravated assault.
She told Adult Video News that she was 'obviously extremely distraught and in disbelief', and that an additional test will be conducted to confirm the result.
According to Bay, she received her last clean bill of health on July 27. Days later she filmed an unprotected sex scene for a series called Public Disgrace. Her male partner was Xander Corvus who recently shot an adult movie with Sydney Leathers.
In a statement, Leathers said both she and Xander got tested prior to shooting their scene, and both were deemed 'healthy'.
However, the presence of STDs sometimes does not come up in tests for up to three months after exposure.
Leathers released a further statement this morning:"I do not have HIV and have not been exposed to HIV regardless of the reports out there saying otherwise."
Diane Duke, executive director of the industry trade group the Free Speech Coalition, told the Associated Press in an e-mail about the HIV detection:'The moratorium will be lifted once the risk of transmission has been eliminated
'In fact, since 2004 there have only been two cases of performers testing positive for HIV and neither of those situations involved on-set transmission,' Duke said.
'The current situation would bring the number to three cases in nearly 10 years, not just in Los Angeles but nationwide.'
The industry briefly put a similar moratorium in place last year after nearly a dozen performers were infected during a syphilis outbreak.
Word of the latest moratorium quickly drew critical responses from porn industry opponents. Among them was Michael Weinstein, whose group the AIDS Healthcare Foundation successfully lobbied voters last year to adopt an ordinance requiring actors use condoms in the making of most porn films.
The industry, which says its audience does not want to see condoms, is fighting the Los Angeles County measure in court.
Cameron Bay has a wrap sheet of more than 17 charges to her name, some of which were dismissed. She also spent more than a year in prison in Arizona 2007. Her charges range from traffic violations to forgery and aggravated assault.
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