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Jan Meza: Former Porn Star Fights For Safer Porn Industry
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by candice.tsuei | August 21, 2009 at 11:30 am
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Jan Meza, former porn actress, has joined the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to fight to regulate certain porn filming conditions, including requiring the use of condoms in porn.
Meza first started appearing in adult movies in 2006, and stopped around one year later when she started joining charity groups to help performers who want to leave the porn industry. Now she is a part of the ongoing campaign to mandate condoms in porn films shot and produced in California, in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV.
At a press conference, Meza appeared with AHF and The Pink Cross, a group that helps people exit the porn industry. "I was told that I would never get work again," said Meza, who later contracted herpes.
In a statement Meza described her experience in the porn industry . "It breaks my heart to acknowledge that during my time as a porn star, I've done a scene with 25 men and even though I was assured that all of the STD testing had been taken care of by the producers, in my heart I realize now that this was probably a lie because I never saw the tests for myself."
Along the the complaints filed, nearly 60 adult DVDs filmed in California have been submitted in which the performers do not wear condoms, demonstrating "unsafe—potentially life-threatening—behavior" in a California workplace.
“As a global HIV and STD medical provider operating treatment clinics and prevention facilities here in California, we see it as our duty to pursue action on the issue of safety in the workplace—in these instances, unprotected sex acts taking place in albeit non-traditional workplaces—porn sets located throughout the San Fernando Valley that are churning out billions of dollars of adult fare every day,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
You can read on Meza's Myspace where she talks about her career experiences and her current life as a wife and mother. You can also follow her on Twitter.
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at 19:43 on August 21st, 2009
The safest course would be to quit
at 00:13 on August 22nd, 2009
How to stop it?? AIn't easy....
at 21:13 on September 4th, 2009
I do not think condoms should be mandatory in porn films. Many stars only do there personal lover on film now instead of one star going around doing 100s of men. A lot of porn is reality porn and mom and pop porn shot at home as well. And with live cams shows and other types of porn that law is just not ever going to become a reality in the industry.