Since the news came out that three performers in the adult film world had tested positive for the HIV virus, many people outside of the business have demanded that condoms be mandatory in all films. Two major companies in the porn business, Vivid Video and Wicked Pictures use condoms in all penetration scenes, but since they market their videos to couples, they have little to lose by doing this. Most videos that aren't sold by these companies are "gonzo" videos, which contain little plot or production values, mainly focused on wall-to-wall sex. It's easy to say, everyone should wear condoms, but it's my guess the majority of men who consume pornography don't like the safety they have to live in their own sex lives and they don't want their fantasy life to be the same. Porno actors are similar to stunt men or NASCAR drivers, as risk is part of the appeal to their viewers.

If mandatory condom use is instituted, my guess is a large portion of porno films will be shot in foreign countries. I'm guessing if you said the word "Outsourcing" to most adult film actors, they would think it was a euphemism for the "money shot", but that is soon to change. The bigger issue in taking the adult film industry out of the San Fernando Valley and setting up shop in Brazil or Hungary (the two countries where a lot of movies are shot currently) is the business would be even more unsafe, as all actors in movies shot in the U.S. are tested on a monthly basis. These other countries don?t have the same health regulations. (For a current business model to demonstrate this point, look at how manufacturing jobs have been outsourced because regulations and health standards are far less stringent in many foreign nations versus the U.S.
Nothing like a porn post, which uses NAFTA as a comparison example.)

The best way to keep people safe would be to force actors or actresses who work in foreign movie productions to wait two months until they can work in an American shoot. This would give enough time to be properly tested. The four most famous cases I can think of where an performer in the adult business contracted HIV, 3 of the 4 happened while working in a foreign country, including this case, as the person (Darren James) who spread the disease to the 2 actresses, initially contracted it in Brazil. The other case of HIV, which wasn?t contracted in a foreign country, occurred when porn legend John Holmes contracted it from using dirty needles while feeding his heroin habit.

This mandatory condom idea reminds me of the dumb law the Senate tried to pass barring Vegas casinos from taking sports bets, as the thought was that this would keep situations like the betting scandals of Arizona State and Northwestern basketball from happening again, when in truth, the scandals were initially exposed by investigators hired by the casinos, themselves. The best policing agency is the industry itself. If you mandate condoms, the actors and directors will just go underground or make movies in other countries, either way making for a much more risky situation than what currently happens.