To that end I’ve offered one small suggestion for “the industry”, one that I can’t imagine would be controversial in any way. Quoting from my post from earlier today:

[I] have a small suggestion.

I’d like to see an independent, peer-reviewed epidemiological analysis of AIM STD figures with a side-by-side comparisons to the relevant cohorts in the general population. AIMs ongoing assertion is that STD rates in their performer pool are lower than in the sexually active population at large, but I don’t think the numbers I’ve seen presented by AIM bear this out.

But the fact is no-one at AIM has the expertise to make a definitive analysis, and I certainly don’t; and it’s not a stretch of the imagination to suggest that perhaps I have an agenda, and perhaps AIM does too. We may have our (bias-informed) opinions about whether it’s riskier to be a 21 year old college student or a 21 year old adult performer, but an independent analysis of the HIV and other STD infection rates from AIM’s 10+ years of testing, with a comparison to sexually active, non-high risk group young adults would put the facts on the table, giving performers the information they need to make informed choices about their health and welfare, and viewers the information they need to understand the human costs involved in manufacturing pornography.

Such an analysis would end speculation and guess-work as to how STD infection rates related to the manufacture of pornography compared to infect rates among various sexually active “civilian” populations, and I’m sure the end of such speculation would be welcomed by all concerned.