Don’t be fooled folks … Rod Daily is not on our side …
Let’s be clear. The fact that former gay-for-pay performer Rod Daily and his porn star girlfriend Cameron Bay contracted HIV are sad and regrettable. As you will see in the original post immediately below, there was tremendous fall-out that extended far beyond Daily and Bay. This included both lawsuits and an industry-wide shooting moratorium.
Let’s also be clear. Rod Daily worked in condom only studios. Bay’s studios required screening. Wherever they got it, it wasn’t on the set of a porn film. It was somewhere with no testing protocols. Escorting perhaps?
Regardless of the circumstances, Michael Weinstein and AHF made Rod Daily the poster child of “big evil porn.” Daily and Bay were brought in to testify in favor of the law at the AB1576 hearing in back in 2014. The bill’s main supporter, in addition to L.A. Assemblyman Isadore Hall, was the AHF.
So there he shows up at hearing today. Looking to be “Donald Trump” to suck up all of the oxygen with his tale of woe underwritten by the AHF.
As for what he’s toting in the basket, that would his girlfriend’s baby. I guess he’s been too busy being a douche bag to carry one of those.
[Original Post Aug 12, 2015]
Somehow I missed this tidbit, but last week former porn models Rod Daily and Cameron Bay both filed civil suits against their former studio, Kink.com, related to the 2013 scandal in which both of them turned out to be HIV positive.
Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth said at the time that it appeared “Rod gave it to Cameron” in the course of their off-screen sexual relationship, but it was never clear where and how Rod got the virus — Kink has maintained it could not have been on set because in addition to rigorous testing, all the gay shoots Rod did for the studio were with condoms.
The incident led to an industry-wide shooting moratorium, and a change to the guidelines about testing, making tests now mandatory for all active adult performers every 14 days.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its grim reaper Michael Weinstein immediately seized on the news and held a teary press conference with Daily and Bay in September 2013, and the current suits appear to be funded by AHF as well — AHF of course has been constantly campaigning for several years for condoms on all porn shoots in California.
A spokesperson for Kink now says, “The lawsuits… are so illegitimate as to be offensive, avoiding science altogether in favor of emotional arguments about HIV, sex work and BDSM. At times, it reads less like a lawsuit and more like a statement from the Pat Buchanan or the Westboro Baptist Church, in which AIDS is retribution for immoral behavior.”
Though it seems clear that Bay likely did contract the virus from off-screen sex with Daily, her suit alleges she could have been exposed on set, describing a time she was exposed to blood “after one male performer rammed his penis so hard into her mouth that the head of it got cut on her wisdom tooth.”
Meanwhile, Kink contends that all of Bay’s on-screen partners tested HIV-negative both before and after her positive test result.
Then there’s Daily’s suit, which as XBIZ reports…
Daily’s suit claims that Kink and directors Van Darkholme, Sebastian Keys and Tomcat — all named as defendents in the claim — also didn’t follow proper protocols over exposure to blood on the set.
Daily, who was said to have performed exclusively in gay and TS scenes during his porn career, claimed he shot for Kink on three occasions, including for the websites TSSeduction.com, KinkMen.com, BoundInPublic.com and NakedKombat.com.
On one shoot in August 2013, Daily said that he engaged in both oral and anal sex despite that he earlier requested condoms be used during the shoot that involved a transgender female.
“At the end of the shoot, the transgender performer ejaculated in [Daily’s] eye,” the suit said. “Plaintiff alerted defendant Tomcat of this. Instead of following proper protocol associated with exposure to bloodborne pathogens, plaintiff was handed a towel and nothing more.”
In their press release, Kink calls Daily’s allegations ridiculous as well. “He cites an eye splash of semen during the shoot as the source of his infection, neglecting both that the performer he worked with was HIV-negative, and that in all of scientific literature, there is exactly one case of HIV being transmitted through an eye splash, and that was in a lab setting.”
Anyway, we all saw this coming.
[XBIZ]
Previously: ROD DAILY: “I’M HIV POSITIVE”
[UPDATED] KINK.COM CEO: ‘ROD GAVE IT TO CAMERON’
Comment KARMA for them. Lol
I lost all interest in Rod Daily when I realized he needed to watch straight porn in order to perform on set. I don’t understand how he ever escorted because that must have been an unpleasant experience for whoever was paying but that’s probably how he got HIV.
Always a fan of his from way back to the Studio2000 days when he was blonde with a nice body and wondered if he would ever go somewhere. What a way to go out….best for him though.
Drugs.
A studio only has to protect its performers within reason since a certain amount of risk is always involved in sex. In this case it proved it did by finding that all of their screen partners tested negative before and after. Rod probably contracted the virus escorting and gave it to her in their off set relationship and is using this lawsuit to save face. This shouldn’t even make it to court unless some political zealot uses it to promote new policy.
That woman is so fucking ugly. She probably got aids from working the street. How could anyone fuck that dog muchless get it up to do it
Rod Daily (Daly) has always been one of my all-time favorites. I really hate to learn of him being HIV and wish him well.
“…………………eye splash of semen during the shoot ” ………………………………..really? Really????????
Funny how every porn star that’s contracted HIV is claiming that they got it doing a condom shoot for Kink.
All i can do is LOL!!