Witnesses reported various injuries and diseases associated with the production of
pornography.[818] The diseases which were reported included a variety of
sexually transmitted diseases. For example, a citizen's group wrote to the Commission:
How does a three and a half year old girl learn to cope with gonorrhea of the throat
and a painful vagina, stretched many times its normal size because her father used her for
sexual gratification. This father was another pornography addict.[819]
A former Playboy bunny testified:
I heard a bunny I knew had her reproductive organs removed due to a venereal disease
left untreated.[820]
A man who had participated in the production of more than one hundred pornographic
films testified:
I decided to get out of the business because I was kind of scared about all the
different diseases and stuff going on. I myself was pretty lucky to only have got
gonorrhea a couple of times. I never caught herpes or nothing like that. But it was scary.
The diseases are really rampant out there, and especially with the AIDS scare. You have
one person that has AIDS in the industry and within six months you can really infect about
half the industry because there's so much contact; you have so many different jobs,
different people, each month.[821]
A woman testified:
There seemed to be a lot of venereal diseases and other contact diseases going around
and I was afraid of catching something.[822]
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