2 InexcuSable Actions
editorial by Michael S. Nova
4 Dear Prude
the kinky, real-life adventures of our readers
9 Barenaked Lady
a close shave
17 Bride of the Red Column Dress
AVN done right by Kensington Smith
25 Jenn-uinely Wicked
an interview with Jenna Jameson by Scott Summers
36 VR 69 @ Wicked
on the set with Portia Klee Jordan
41 Three Way
the name says it all
49 Hot Blooded
brush up your latin
57 The Names Have Been Changed
erotic fiction by Guin Turner
65 Takin' It To The Limit 4
video review by Hamilton Ennui
73 Black Magic Afternoon
abra-cadabra
81 Class Act
a rich bitch fantasy
89 The Artisans of Erotica
Scott Summers breaks the mold
EDITORIAL NOTE
INEXCUSable ACTIONS
I got the call about two weeks ago from a friend of mine in the business.
"You didn't hear this from me," she said, "but there's a rumor
going around that Barbara Doll has HIV."
It didn't take long for me to realize what the possible ramifications of this
could be if it turned out to be true. Barbara is a fairly new import from France.
She's a good-looking girl with reddish-blonde hair, twinkling eyes, a nice smile,
and a deadly disease. In the year or so that she's been in the business, Barbara
has worked with virtually every major male performer, usually doing anal in process.
If she had managed to infect one of those men, it was possible that he had passed
the disease on to dozens of women unknowingly. The ratio of male performers to
female performers is about one man for every ten women, so the men have sex with
many different women in a short period of time.
Of course, the rumor was true. It's too early to tell yet how much damage has
been done. We won't know that for a few months at least. However, the most frightening
and infuriating thing is this.
Barbara knew she was infected, and continued to work. No one is exactly sure how
long she knew, but her positive test was done sometime in February, and she was
working for VCA in late March. You do the math.
All of this came out the next day, after I had made a few mental health calls
to some of my other friends in the business, among them Tera Heart, who was one
of the last people to work with Barbara. She was so scared, she was going on a
drinking binge that night, and I don't blame her. You see, Tera has to wait about four weeks before she can even get tested. Put yourself in her shoes. Imagine having to wait that long before you can even find out whether or not you've gotten HIV from someone who KNEW THEY HAD IT!
Almost immediately, the news had spread throughout the entire business. It really is a small community, and there's no news like bad news. Ten minutes after I got off the phone with Tera, I got a call from our publisher. He was having lunch with a well-known director, and wanted to know if I had heard.
This having been said, my question is this: Who covered for Barbara? The way the
industry works, no one is supposed to be able to perform without showing their
test results. Apparently, Barbara claimed that she had forgotten it, or would
bring it the next day. I can understand that getting by once, or maybe twice,
but for several weeks? She worked for most of the major producers while she was
positive, and word never got around that she was being cagey about her test? I
don't buy it. Somebody somewhere is covering his ass.
It's possible that there may be no longterm impact on the adult community other than a lot of frightened people. Female-tomale transmission is rare, and lesbian transmission has never been documented. Still, if one of the guys got it, this is more serious than we know.
The Free Speech Coalition has recommended more stringent testing, and the producers have agreed to comply. The question, I guess, is will they remember?
All I can say is, they'd better. Michael S. Nova, Managing Editor
