T.I.M. : Change of Policy?

[RotzBBengel]

I've always been a BIG fan of T.I.M. and I check out their homepage regularly. I was surprised (to say the least) to find that they have a new (and kinda irritating) model application form. Now they not only ask for your HIV status, Hep and other STDs, they also wanna know whether you "Are[...]comfortable engaging in sex acts with partners who may have a different HIV status than yourself?" or not.

But I almost laughed my ass off, when I found this one:

"Do you perform bareback? [] Yes [] No"

Right now I feel like I spent the last year under a rock. Can anybody tell me what's happened at T.I.M.? Have they been sued or something?

So if anyone has some background information on this, please let me know. I'm really confused and have no idea what to make of this.

Love,...Felix

[bb1991]

I think it's been like that for a while.

I don't think they got sued- I think it's probably more down to the reputation TIM earned themselves for not testing their actors; other porn studios wouldn't touch guys that had performed for TIM.

Actors tend to flit from one porn studio to the next; wherever they can get work -most aren't going to risk their future career in porn for one scene for TIM. So to attract the top calibre guys you've got to do things the way the other studios do, so the guys can carry on getting work.

I've noticed that lately there have been more and more porn stars working for other reputable studios after working with TIM: something that never happened a few years ago.

My theory anyway....

[AlwaysOpen]

Probably just lawyered up-- sort of like the disclaimer you always see on car ads where the car is doing 120 MPH around a curve and the crawl on the bottom of the screen advises it is a professional driver on a closed course, do not attempt . Sort of releases them when some 19 year old with 2 six packs fueling him tries it anyway