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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV in October has come forward and is calling for mandatory condoms in porn films and better health monitoring for performers.

Derrick Burts tells the Los Angeles Times that he is the performer who tested positive at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.

Burts describes the panicked call he got from clinic staff on Oct. 9 about the infection that sent fears through California’s adult industry.

The 24-year-old Burts performed for a few months in straight films as Cameron Reid and in gay films as Derek Chambers.

Burt says he believes he contracted the disease on a porn shoot in Florida, but the clinic said he was infected through personal activity.

The clinic has said Burts did not infect any other performers.

(© Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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  • sD

    Derek is looking pretty hot in the photo.

    • Barbi Winters

      hahaha! That’s the only funny thing I’ve read, so thanks for that.

  • Rick Calvert

    Yeah. And “DagoStud” conjures up quite an image of puritanical abstinence. With a title like that, sounds like you’re doing more to spread the problem than to solve it.

  • Eric

    What? and they thought God was joking when it came to sexual immorality, well looks like this guy and the rest of the gals he infected have earned themselves a death sentence?

    • Al

      If that was the case, everyone who had “immoral” sex would get AIDS. Hate to tell you this but god has nothing to do with this.

      • Perry

        Amen, brother

      • Michael T Murphy

        A double AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Amber

    Is that a workers comp issue if he was infected while filming?

  • Jim Gates

    bottom line if you dont want aids dont do the sex get in another line of work

    • Jack

      Big fat troll alert

    • Matt Filipczuk

      Bottom line don’t be a fool wrap your tool.

    • James Clemens

      and that would accomplish what exactly? Keeping someone from getting HIV? ALOT of people who are not in, nor ever have been in porn have HIV and some have AIDS. OH, and sex is not the only way to get HIV either. It is but one of the ways.

    • Barbi Winters

      Gee, you’re so smart. ??????

  • Jennifer

    Parents need to steer their kids toward vocational training to aquire a job skill that does not require the exchange of body fluids. Someday they will live to thank you for that.

    • Krissy

      Youre comment is a joke right?

      • Jack

        You’re comment reveals a 80IQ, right?

  • Ding Moo

    Well, he performed in gay films! What does he expect??

    anonymous-tools.tk

  • billy goats

    “personal activities?” You can get AIDS from whackin off? Face it–he plowed some dudes tail and got poop up his drain valve…AIDS-filled poop. SICK

    • Matt

      I think they mean like drug use or personal sexual activities outside the business.

  • DobeDobyDo

    This is why porn actors shouldn’t double dip. Pick a genre; straight or gay.

  • http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com HooDatIS?

    HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING
    SO SAD
    THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE SHAME OF THEMSELVES
    http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com

    • elbon55

      Watch out, here come the Grammar Police!

  • Costa Mesa resident

    Hope this will be a lesson not just for gays but straight people as well that having multiple partners makes you a candidate for HIV. Being a virgin is much safer than having casual sex with every man and woman you run into.

    • David Powell

      Indeed. Stats wise, indeed.

      There have been a couple cases in Pron. It is a high risk profession. Especially for those that play around outside that circle as well. It only takes one person to get infected to risk a lot more in that group very quickly. A lot of crossover.

      • tourismtommy

        Yup… Shrimp can be Deadly! Don’t have sex with Shrimp!!! Even the Good looking ones!

    • Barbi Winters

      How would YOU know?

  • nunya

    why is this news?

  • dan

    YEP….YA PLAY…YA PAY.

  • The Mad Man

    Gee, what a surprise? Now he will know what it is like to be discriminated against when he can’t get life insurance or medical insurance and faces medical discrimination. Guess what? You pay the price and you made your choices.

    • tourismtommy

      Yup… Shrimp can be deadly. Don’t have sex with Shrimp!!!

  • Judy

    If you are an “actor” in adult films – you know the risk. Any woman who does drugs and has sex with men who are “bi” know the risk. Any man who has anal sex and drugs knows he will probably be an AIDS patient. How many generations do we have to tell people – it can only take one time. If you go to bed know who your partner is. The old saying is true – you are sleeping with every partner your partner slept with.

    • jaime

      TRUE!

      i hate how they make it look like you can sleep with three people and have no disease risk.. but its more like 300 when you factor in how many the other people have had sex with.
      sick.

    • Barbi Winters

      What do drugs have to do with HIV…….unless they are sharing needles, which doesn’t sound like it applies in this case.

  • katy

    I have no sympathy for him. There are consequences to behaviors, and he knew what they were but still engaged.

    • Barbi Winters

      Doesn’t sound like he’s asking for sympathy, from what he says. Sounds like he’s realized a hard lesson too late, but doesn’t want it to happen to others.

  • Lance

    You reap what you sow.

  • Jose Gutierrez

    Don’t worry, it’s fine. We mexican always make out with our own cousins. We even know the Amelican metaphor “Sharing is caring”. So we share their cousin with another cousin. You should look at our family tree, yeh baby, it’s complicated. What’s your sister’s name?

    • TheWindrunner

      That’s BS, you don’t ALWAYS do it!

    • Jessenia Martinez

      You spelled Mexican wrong, it’s spelled white.

  • Jeezus

    isn’t Vin Deeznuts XXX?

  • norman west

    in florida you can get anything from those inbred rednecks

  • HymieR

    With this bieng the end result.do we really wany same sex marriage?

  • truth about AIDS

    Want the truth about AIDS?
    Read this-
    http://www.aliveandwell DOT ORG /html/risk_realities/whatever_happened.html

  • jaime

    bunch of pervs.
    CONDOMS dont stop everything all the time.. they have a 1 and 6 failure rate…

    if you study biology you know there is a good chance that it wont prevent everything..

    the condom is seen as the “protect all” savior for people who want to live lewd lives… IT DOESNT WORK. I know enough people who had condoms on and got AIDS, other diseases, or ended up pregnant..

    bottom line- dont be a porn star… stop having sex with multiple partners.

  • AIDS4Gays

    Do it up the butt and get sick like Derck.

  • Sandy A. Dawson

    This happened in October? Almost one year ago! Why are we just now hearing of this? As usual our news is right up there on top of things, never mind the slight delay and hopefully this doesn’t concern any of Yahoo’s news readers. Then why are you telling us at all.? Old news just isn’t news, it’s history.

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