Where’s the Humanity in Porn?

Thank you for the provocative article on the porn film industry (“See No Evil,” by P.J. Huffstutter, Jan. 12). It’s appalling that such a lucrative industry is allowed to treat its workers so despicably. However anyone may feel about the nature of the work, this is utterly unacceptable and ridiculous. While taking the initial steps toward regulation may be viewed as political suicide, it seems plain that, should the modus operandi prevail, we will all have a bigger problem with which to contend.

SJ Stratford

Los Angeles

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Unbelievable! We have licensed animal handlers “ensuring that a herd of cockroaches was well taken care of” and state and federal laws designed to protect working insects by making sure they are fed on time and work only a certain number of hours each day. The inmates are truly running the asylum. All of this would undoubtedly sit well with journalist Don Marquis’ literary cockroach Archy who, together with Mehitabel, roamed New York papers in the 1920s. It’s beyond me: to be concerned about the health and working conditions of insects, and to fail to consider the health of humans.

Edward A. English

Atascadero

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Huffstutter left out the stories of the wonderful, intelligent people who are the true heads of the adult industry. Companies such as Wicked Pictures, Evil Angel, Digital Playground and others care about the performers who work for them as if they were family.

The article was misleading in portraying the adult film industry as a more likely place to contract HIV. I do not blame the porn business, in which I worked, for causing me to contract HIV. I knew I was taking a risk. My trust was betrayed five years ago by one man who lied to me and the rest of my community. Nothing like this had happened before, and there has been nothing like this since. It has been my experience that the porn business has stringent HIV testing today.

Tricia Devereaux-Stagliano

Van Nuys