Question about porn films (might offend).

Factual Questions
1

It bores me to death that porn flicks have the guy wearing a rubber. None of my sexual fantasies include condoms!
I assume that they’re used in the videos to prevent the spread of disease, right?

So what i don’t get is this: Why do they show 15 minutes of the guy plugging away inside some woman while wearing a condom, then he pulls out, pulls the rubber off (usually not shown doing that), then he ejaculates on her tongue or entirely into her mouth.
What good are the condoms if he’s going to do that, right?

So why are all the modern porn videos using condoms? I like the older ones my brother has: No rubbers!

2

it might be stamina, i mean you cant feel crap in a condom, so if the guy is new to the porn scene and he cant quite go the distance, a condom might be used to make the scene not so speedy

3

The porn industry is having a hard enough time barely achieving market penetration without being the butt of criticisms from just about every holier-than-thou group who’s morals are too big for their own heads. Perhaps the very last shred of redeeming value to which a skin flick can lay claim is the offer of some “educational” value with the inclusion of prophylactics in their burlesque. The last thing they need is to have the lable “hypocrite” hung upon them.

It could also be that more & more performers are requiring it these days. Once off camera, the recipient of the facial can at least spit & rinse. The recipient of an anal deposit does not have it quite so easy.

Or it could just be that cum shots sell videos.

4

In general, the condom is used to prevent the transmission of STDs. Yes, there is a risk of transmission from the money shot, but it is substantially reduced when compared to the intercourse. The reason that they use the condoms is that many performers insist on it. If it were up to the producers (and most viewers, apparently), there would be no condom usage.

5

The following is pasted from Asia Carrera’s website. She’s a former National Merit Scholar who went to Rutgers and then got into porn. She has a really good FAQ about the in’s and out’s of the porn business. I’d post a link, but there’s nudity there. The url is just her name.com.
**What about AIDS and pregnancy? **

We have to get a new AIDS test every thirty days. We cannot work without a certified copy of our test results present at the set where we are working, and they are photocopied at every shoot and kept on file with a copy of 2 forms of ID. Since we tend to only date and sleep with other people within our industry, we are actually probably one of the safest groups around. How often do you guys swap AIDS tests before having sex with someone you meet at a bar or club? As for pregnancy, most of the girls are on the pill, but others use diaphragms or condoms. Risk of pregnancy is also lessened by the fact that the guy’s cum shots are always external.

6

I’ve noticed some actors sporting what I would call a half-condom, one that only covers part of the [ahem] subject. I suppose its so that they can attempt to maintain the illusion of a condomless scene, while still keeping things safe for the talent.
I say attempt, because depending on motion, the half-condom usually always peeks out at some point in the scene.

7

…Ummm… Maybe those aren’t HALF-CONDOMS you are seeing pal… Maybe these guys should be investing in Magnums and not Trojan’s “delicately phrased” Small size.

8

“There have been a few cases of HIV transmission from performing oral sex on a person infected with HIV. While no one knows exactly what the degree of risk is, evidence suggests that the risk is less than that of unprotected anal or vaginal sex.”

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/faq/faq19.htm

“Based on what we’ve seen and the number of years of experience, there is enough background to see that [oral activity] isn’t a route of transmission,” [Dr.] Fox says.

http://www.gaylib.com/aids/aids22.htm

“The truth from the University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health is that the risk of transmission of HIV via oral sex is very, very, very, very, very low and may be zero. Other sources of information in the U.K. and elsewhere are not based on sound epidemiological data.”

http://channels.gay.com/health/hiv/?sernum=1869

9

Yes. Congress should probe the matter deeply and hear oral arguments to see how its thrust impacts the normal intercourse of this industry.

I just hope they don’t get anal about it.

10

I think you are buying or watching the wrong pornos. There are plenty of new pornos that feature bareback. Its really only the “big names” that have scenes with condoms and I really could care less about the star of a film, in fact I find watching the same women completely boring.

And it has nothing to do with stamina, these guys use the gels and all the other stuff that numbs you out plus they HAVE to have the natural stamina or they don’t get hired. I remember an interview with RoJo where he said it was even difficult to find guys who could get naturally hard on command these days and that most actors were popping Viagra. He was very proud he could and still can power his 10 inchs all by his lonesome.

11

I agree with Eidolon909, you haven’t been watching the right kind o’ porn. Most of the ones imported by my brother are from Europe and are good ol’ hardcore with absolutley no rubbers used. Usually the guy does cum outside the vagina not in, but I think this is more for added effect than anything else (though medically speaking there may be benefits). To be honest even the so-called “soft-core” (dubbed by my brother, but technically not factually accurate) porn here in the US that I’ve sampled has no Mr Safe & Squeekie in it.

Generally the porn industry is more well regulated than it was before, and this:

I would think is answered more well by this:

I would think there would be adequate testing around considering some of the tasks involved. It’s not everyday you shoot mangos and peanuts out of your ass.

12

I’m 17, I take what I can get.

13

You guys are KILLING me!
Yeah, sure this is a serious subject, and maybe I am just suffering
from a case of immaturity but YIMMINY how could miss these:

From Attrayant

and…

From //\etalhea|)

Tell me these were NOT intentional!

14

Roger T. Pipe, the porn critic (yes, there are such things) runs RogReviews, and interviews porn performers. Here are their comments on condom usage.

Anna Amore: (Asked "Do you use condoms in every scene?) “No, I’m not that way at all. I figure if the AIDS test is cleared. I have been really lucky. The people they pair me with seem very responsible.”

Charlene Aspen: (“Do you work with condoms or without?”) “Either way…I feel confident in the testing program we have in the industry. I take care of myself.”

Patrick Collins (actor/director/producer): Elegant Angel [a porn production company] is condom-optional company. “If people want to use them, I don’t care.” Use of condoms has “not hurt sales one bit.”

Jessica Darlin: “I don’t like condoms. I never have. I admit I will not use a condom until they become absolutely mandatory, and even then I would probably just quit.”

Tricia Devereaux: "It’s been almost three years since the last major infection and people are getting relaxed again. I can understand when girls say ‘I work with this person all of the time, so I’m not going to request a condom.’ I do understand because that is what I did. The people I trusted, I didn’t request a condom. "

Wendy “Maya” Divine: “Yes, I do work with condoms.”

Alana Evans: "I do like working without condoms better, but I do think that the industry should start doing things to stop the spread of other STDs. "

Felicia Fox: "Yes [I use condoms].

Jenna Haze (“Do you work with condoms or without?”]: “I do both…All the companies I have worked for have been really strict on the testing and being safe. AIM is a great thing for the business. I suppose there is more they could do, but they are doing a great job.”

Jenna J.: “I work without [condoms]. If someone asks me to work with one, I will.”

Layla Jade: “If I lived over here, I might [use condoms]. I don’t use them at all back home [in England] when I work.”

So it appears that the performers are very blase` about condoms, and put their faith in regular HIV testing. I noted through out the interviews that performers who were very concerned about HIV and other STDs simply left the business.

15

I can’t believe that swallowing a large load of infected semen is in any way safe.

I remember seeing a documentary about street hookers, and it said that one of their biggest dangers was getting gonorrhea and/or syphilis infections in their throat. I am certain that if regular old VD can be spread this way, so can HIV.

And keep in mind, alot of times the “sperm” one sees during the money shot isn’t real.

16

They gots pornos with rubbers now?

My, how times have changed. (I haven’t been, um, ‘keeping up’ with the video nasties)

As for the OP, I’d leave out the prophylaxis question entirely and ask why the “pull out” money-shot has become a convention at all…

An old gf once exclaimed “I believe he came, okay?!” – a phrase which I can still hear in its exact intonation ten years later.