Is There A Double Standard In Porn?

[RavenEye]

Hey all! So as I was looking through my extensive porn collection and I couldn't help but notice something. Most of the straight porn is condom-free and most of the gay porn use condoms. Most of my bisexual porn seems to be condom-free as well. This got me thinking and researching. It seems most porn studios say that they want to use porn as a teaching method to promote safe sex. Which honestly seems completely stupid to me. Because they seem to be promoting the stereotype that only gay anal sex will lead to STI's. (The same studios straight porn does anal bareback). I remember watching this one MMF porno. They had a train going and the guy was fucking the other guy with condom while the other guy was fucking the girl (anal) bareback. And I got so mad at this studio for even doing that! But anyways it seems the mentality of most porn studios is this: Straight Sex = No Condoms is ok, Gay Sex = Condoms mandatory, Bi Sex = As long as there is a woman in the room, bareback gay sex is ok... Does any of this seem wrong and a double standard to any of you guys?

[æonpax]

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM)1 (http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/index.htm#ref1) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the early 1990s. In 2006, MSM accounted for more than half (53%) of all new HIV infections in the United States, and MSM with a history of injection drug use (MSM-IDU) accounted for an additional 4% of new infections. At the end of 2006, more than half (53%) of all people living with HIV in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU. Since the beginning of the US epidemic, MSM have consistently represented the largest percentage of persons diagnosed with AIDS and persons with an AIDS diagnosis who have died. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/index.htm

When 2% of the population cause 53% of all new HIV cases, I don't see a double standard.

[Brian]

2% of the population cause 53% of all new HIV cases Not sure your wording there is scientifically accurate and fair. A segment of the population that has 53% of all new cases of a disease has not "caused" 53% of new cases of the disease.

Drew :paw:

[æonpax]

You'll have to take it up with the CDC. There is a big difference between "causing" and "spreading". The phrase the CDC uses is "New HIV Infections". This is semantics. Condoms are used to halt the "spread" of HIV.

[The Bisexual Virgin]

I really don't care about the Double Standard thing, I just think that everyone that's involve in the porn industry should always be safe and wear condoms, and that can go for normal people too.

[The Bisexual Virgin]

To be honest, when you mention the Double Standard in porn, I thought you were talking about, how two girls can have a lesbian scene and not be classified as gay, and at the same time two dudes do it, people will assume that they are gay and their boyfriend is somewhere behind the scenes.

[BatCox40]

There is not double standard in porn. Sometimes condoms are worn to prevent spreading. I also read long time ago that porn stars have to be regularly tested for STI's. Until they are tested positive or wherever there is doubt, condoms are worn.