Has any major porn studio ever stated that it does not discriminate in hiring models who test HIV-positive?
I know bareback studios such as Treasure Island Media, Hot Desert Knights, Lucas Entertainment and SX Video do not test models prior to their performance, so everyone works there at their own risk.
I know some legacy studios such as Falcon, Raging Stallion, Titan, Icon Male and GayRoom still insist on condom use on set, alleviating the need for HIV testing of their models, although RS recently released 1 bareback video.
What I ~am~ asking is of all the bareback studios that do test, are there any studios that refuse to hire any POZ models whatsoever, even if they are undetectable, thus discriminating against them?
Are there any bareback-only studios that do not discriminate against POZ models in hiring, even if the studio "serosorts" models into scenes that match POZ models, other scenes that pair neg models or even bareback scenes that match a POZ undetectable model with a neg model on PrEP who has agreed to the match?
Can we draw any conclusion from the few studios such as Helix and Badpuppy that currently release mostly bareback but some condom scenes? Is that condom use because the studio knows the models are serodiscordant and the studio insists on safesex because of that? Or is it because one of the serodiscordant models insists on condom use?
The perfect example of this is Travis Stevens: https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/S/5/97685.html
He began his porn career doing bareback scenes in 2014 for JasonSparksEntertainment, and he continues to appear in JSE bareback releases this year. He did scenes for condom-only (at the time) studios MEN.com, GayRoom.com and ManRoyale, so he did not have a choice of barebacking.
Then he began appearing in scenes for Helix Studios in 2015, but every single one of them was a safesex scene, even though Helix was releasing more and more bareback scenes at the time. Since Travis appeared with multiple different models in every Helix scene, and a condom was used in each one, then it's implausible to think that Travis insisted on safesex with each Helix model. Likewise, it is implausible that every single Helix model who had sex scenes with Travis insisted on safesex with him even though most of them had appeared in bareback scenes at Helix earlier.
There are only 2 logical conclusions: (1) Helix disclosed Travis' different HIV status to each of the other models, and the models all elected to do a safesex scene with him; or (2) Helix, knowing and concealing Travis' different HIV status, mandated Travis only appear in condom-only scenes.