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If HIV infected surgeons are allowed to operate, why shouldn't HIV infected persons be allowed to act in a porn movie?

• presidentender 17y ago
  They should be. But producers should be able to choose not to hire them.
• nudded 17y ago
  that entirely depends on the precautions taken.
• jrockway 17y ago
  Because the surgeons aren't spraying their bodily fluids into you.
  • dunmalg 17y ago
    And nobody using a scalpel EVER accidentally cuts themselves
    • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      Do you have figures for the number of surgeons who cut themselves during a procedure?
• pyre 17y ago
  I think this may be a place where anti-discrimination and OSHA bump up against each other. If producers can't turn down HIV-infected actors, then aren't they endangering their HIV-negative actors? To answer your question, the risk of a condom breaking is much higher than a surgeon getting bodily fluids into a patient. Sexual intercourse necessarily involves production of bodily fluids with nothing but the condom to contain them. A surgeon is not required to produce highly infectious fluids as part of performing an operation. If a latex glove breaks during an operation what are the chances that some HIV-infected fluids will leak out and into the patient? What are the chances that an actor/actress will be infected when a condom full of HIV-positive semen breaks inside of them?