Production on adult films has been suspended through Monday as a trade group investigates a possible exposure to HIV.
The Free Speech Coalition, an adult-industry trade group that calls for the moratoriums on porn production, has halted filming since Wednesday. On Friday it extended the moratorium through Monday to wait for conclusive test results on the performers who may have been exposed.
"We need to err on the side of caution" for the sake of the performers, said Diane Duke, president of the coalition, in a statement.
The coalition didn't say where the possible HIV exposure was, or when, only noting in the statement that it will continue to work with "producers, performers and the health department" during its investigation.
Porn actors are routinely tested for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, which is done to keep the pool of performers safe.
When an actor tests positive, retesting is ordered for all the other actors he or she has worked or had sex up to 14 days before their last negative HIV test, according to the Free Speech Coalition. Performers who've had sexual contact with the positive actor have to wait 14 more days before acting in another adult film.
The last time the coalition called a moratorium was in late August, when a test on an actor came back with a false positive, according to the coalition.
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The Free Speech Coalition says that HIV hasn't been transmitted on a porn set in over 10 years -- meaning actors may have been infected on their own time, but haven't given it to other actors during filming.
