Derek Burts, a bisexual porn star, works in both gay and straight adult films. Recently, he has contracted the HIV virus. Monthly STD testing is required in the straight porn industry. In gay films the requirement is for performers to wear a condom–something very simple that could have kept Derek from contracting STDs. He claims that after starting in the straight film industry, he picked up three STDs: Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes.
Had there been a mandate to wear rubbers, assuming that Derek is telling the truth about not getting the diseases from his personal life, then he never would have gotten those viruses. When he was tested and the results came back positive for HIV, the straight adult film industry ground to a halt for a month. According to, ontopmag.com, Derek Burts co-stars, came up negative for HIV. The clinic personnel are trying to say that the porn star had to of gotten the disease from his personal sex life. Burts continues to deny those claims.
Regardless of if he got the disease from work or from his own life, I think that all the men who have sex on camera for money should wrap their weeny’s up. It gets rid of the possibility to contract diseases and reinforces the monthly testing. Play it safe porn stars and use protection!
