Lara Roxx
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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. The film was subsequently released under the title Split That Booty 2 although Roxx's appearance was not included in the film.
Career
Roxx, while 21, was exposed to HIV while doing a double anal penetration scene with Darren James and Mark Anthony on March 24, 2004. She had filmed her first-ever anal scene with Darren James on 10 February. Roxx said that she had relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety. Because double-anal penetration involves so much stretching and tearing of tissues, conditions were ideal for Roxx to contract the deadly virus. The fact that the scene was her first double-anal increased the risk significantly.
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.
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."
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.
Adult Video News is collecting donations to assist Roxx. Famous porn star Jenna Jameson spearheaded a fundraising campaign to help porn industry workers suffering financial hardships from both the quarantine and the production moratorium.
To date Roxx has only been offered $1500.00 from the fundrasing campaign started by Jameson, and now has begun collecting donations for her own foundation, the Lara Roxx foundation (www.lararoxxfoundation.org) The Lara Roxx Foundation is committed to:
- Spread awareness and provide proper care to people living with HIV/ AIDS
- Working to prevent further propagation of the AIDS virus (HIV).
- Helping people with the right solutions to rise above.
- Demystifying HIV and AIDS.
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.
External links
- 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
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