Wallice’s producers to entice him to his office with an offer of $10,000. She figured out that all eight women had done anal sex scenes with an actor named Marc Wallice - someone she herself had once worked with. Sharon Mitchell, a former actress with a doctorate in human sexuality and training in taking blood samples, was hired by the industry to investigate. Then one woman after another suddenly began testing positive for H.I.V. Until then, producers accepted test results on paper from many doctors.
That year, 1998, saw the industry’s worst scandal. Hartley said, she credited that “trope” with saving dozens of lives between 1984, when AIDS first entered the talent pool, and 1998, when industry-regulated testing was imposed. Pornographic films typically end with ejaculation on the actress’s skin while feminists find that demeaning, Ms.
Nina Hartley, a registered nurse and an actress since 1984, said she has not let a male co-star ejaculate inside her since 1986.