Lara Roxx
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Template:Female adult bio Lara Roxx is the stage name of a Montreal, Quebec-born Canadian porn actress, who, in March 2004, became the first known individual in four years to contract HIV while making a US porn video.
Career
Roxx, while 21, was exposed to HIV while doing a scene with Darren James for "International Booty 8"[1] which was released on August 5, 2004. This was her first-ever anal scene with Darren James and Roxx said that she had relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety.[2] Unbeknown to the both of them, James had already contracted the virus from Bianca Biaggi, a Brazilian pornographic actress, while filming "Split that Booty 2" which was released July 20, 2004.
James and Roxx have been banned from any further porn production in the US. At the end of April 2004, it was confirmed that Jessica Dee and Miss Arroyo, after having worked with James, also tested positive for HIV.[3]
Roxx, on learning about James being HIV-positive, said, "It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn't work," and "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world."[2]
This outbreak, the first in four years, led to a voluntary moratorium on porn production for 30 days (60 days was originally announced), starting in April 2004, while it confirmed all possible contacts among porn performers. No adult video production companies were required to comply.
In 2007 on an Episode Of The Maury Povich Show. Lara came on to talk to Wild Teens about her past and to help them prevent making the mistakes she made where she would catch HIV.
References
External links
- The Lara Roxx Foundation
- Porn Faces Reality Village Voice article covering the incident
- Post-porn plans – an article on the Montreal Mirror
- Interview at lukeisback.com
- [http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=6830720179365114696&q=lara+roxx&total=7&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 google video 2007/2008