Hollywood is making attempts to understand how to continue the production of movies and TV shows in the coronavirus period, one sector may be better adapted than others to deal with the challenges.
The porn industry in Los Angeles has come up with its own testing system and its own database in the 1990s to protect its performers during the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Now The Los Angeles porn industries are using that existing system to develop protocols for creating adult entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The strict protocols were established in the late 1990s following a porn actor faked an HIV test and affected several other actors in the adult industry.
Former Porn star Sharon Mitchell, who is now working as a physician, created a system now known as PASS (Performer Availability Scheduling Services), where porn actors are needed to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases every 2 weeks. The results are entered into a database that informs producers and directors about who is clean and available for doing the work.
Stabile told the coronavirus, which is more quickly transmitted, is a more complex difficulty but that the porn industry was open to working with mainstream Hollywood studios to share its expertise.
Hollywood studios, TV networks, and groups representing actors and directors have been brainstorming for weeks on how to restart production again while preserving everyone from actors to make-up artists and camera crews.
