globalmappingofpleasure

Chi Chi LaRue
Safe Sex is Hot Sex campaign
for condoms in gay porn
Web www.safesexishotsex.com
What we are seeing now is drastically different [than in
the past]. We are seeing movies with 18-year-old twinks
being gang banged without condoms. We are seeing...
20-year-olds in the UK who have reportedly become
HIV-positive after making their first porn.”
Chi Chi LaRue, Safe Sex is Hot Sex website, USA
Chi Chi LaRue (a.k.a. Larry David Paciotti) is an erotic
film director, drag queen and performer in the USA.
She is considered one of the gay adult industry’s
most successful directors, and also directs straight
and bisexual erotic films. A long-time advocate for
condom use in gay porn, LaRue announced she
would no longer produce films for Vivid Video in 2006
because they adopted a condom-optional policy.
In recent years LaRue created production company
Channel 1 Releasing, which requires actors and
actresses to use condoms in all of its films.
In response to recent reports of a rise in HIV among
gay men and an increase in ‘barebacking’ (anal
sex without condoms) porn, LaRue created a
four-minute video public service announcement
(PSA) explaining the risks of barebacking porn,
and the responsibility of porn consumers to avoid
barebacking porn in order to protect the health and
lives of porn actors. The video features La Rue (both
in drag and as Larry Paciotti) speaking to viewers
about condom use, with the message to ‘wrap it up’
because ‘safe sex is hot sex’, while gay porn video
clips run in the background.
Launched in early 2008, the PSA has been shown
on gay porn sites and blogs, covered by the media,
including the New York Times and the BBC, and
received support from the US Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), the Journal of the American
Medical Association, and other medical and
media organizations.
Said LaRue of her decision to make the PSA (from
www.safesexishotsex.com):
“When I moved to LA in 1987 and took a job in
promotions at Catalina Video, the AIDS crisis was
in full swing. I lobbied hard to … get condoms
on the models. I would like to think that some of
my persuasion helped make condom movies a
reality. Since then, gay porn has helped lead the
way in showing gay men how to use condoms, how
to have safer sex and removed some of the stigma
that was associated with condoms at the time.”
“When I first started seeing barebacking titles
appear, of course I was disappointed and very
outspoken. The fact is that it was pretty obvious to
most that the models ‘appeared’ to be HIV+ and
were having unsafe sex with what ‘appeared’ to
be other HIV+ models. Again not something I have
ever heard was recommended, but in any case,
it is something that does seem to be more readily
practiced in the gay community. What we are
seeing now is drastically different. We are seeing
movies with 18-year-old twinks being gang banged
without condoms. We are seeing ... 20-year-olds
in the UK who have reportedly become HIV+ after
making their first porn.”
26