Gay Porn Studio fined $21K over bareback scenes

California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health ( OSHA) has fined gay porn studio " Treasure Island Media" for workplace safety violations that has exposed employees to " semen and other potentially infectious materials". Treasure Island Media is a popular and yet controversial studio based in San Francisco known for it's "bareback porn". Titles such as " Sperm Assualt", "Breeding Season" and even their eithic themed bareback titles " Bruthaload" and "Latinload". The studio has also SIGNED OPENLY HIV POSITIVE PERFORMER JAMES ROSCOE and has performed scenes with other HIV positibe performers.
According to XBIZ the studio is appealing all 3 of their citations totaling $ 21,470 in penalities. Employees were exposed to semen and other potentially infectious materials due to work activites during filming and set cleaning. Treasure Island Media did not observe universal precautions during the productions of their films. They did not instuite precautions to minimize contact with blood and semen, like the use of barrier protections( i.e. condoms). CAL/OSHA stated that THE STUDIO WAS NOT CITED FOR EMPLOYING HIV POSITIVE PERFORMERS. I think that's retarted because if your going to employ HIV postive performers then the studio should have implented barrier protection...SIMPLE!. When you own a studio it is the director's job to make sure that all of their model's paperwork is up to date and accurate. Now if your going to sign performers like James Roscoe and have them performer bareback scenes then you should get fined if your exposing your HIV negative performers to infectious material.

According to CAL/OSHA engineer Deborah Gold " Anybody may be infected, therfore you have to treat everyone's blood and other potential infectious materials ( such as semen) as though it can be infectious". This fine isn't coming as a shock because California lawmakers and CAL/OSHA have been considering mandating condom use in Straight and Gay Porn and additional testing for porn performers, because in the summer of 2009 at least 16 additional unpublicized cases of HIV have been confirmed in gay and straight adult film performers. Recently in Oct/Nov 2010 production was halted on several studios AGAIN! after a " GAY FOR PAY" porn actor..( Lets call him ACTOR X ) who performed in both straight and gay adult videos tested positive for HIV. ( Remember with Austin Wilde left Raging Stallion Studios..well that was the reason he told the Naked Sword..so  someone isn't doing their job and making sure these models are accurate with their test results. GET ON THE BALL AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. )The actor reportedly did not transmit the virus to any other professional or personal sex partners. So that makes it okay? I think not, why the hell do society feel like its okay to put their models at risk because of a dollar sign. So because it pays more to do bareback .. we do it! And because bareback sells more, directors produce it. So it doesn't really matter that we are putting ourselves at risk as well as fueling the ignorant mind of highly religious folks and narrow mind people who already feel like HIV is a gay disease. IT'S TIME TO WAKE THE FUCK UP.