BBC INVESTIGATES BAREBACK ADULT FILMS

A British gay adult film producer has agreed to stop filming bareback scenes after a BBC television investigation.

The company, Icreme, which claims on its website to be one of the UK’s most prolific producers of male adult films, said that it would ensure from now on that its performers wore condoms when filming sex scenes.

Three films showing bareback scenes have also been withdrawn from the shelves.

This comes after the BBC television show Newsnight revealed that some models may have contracted HIV as a result of performing in the company’s films.

According to Newsnight, at least one performer, who is now HIV positive, said that he was “distressed that footage which he believed showed him becoming infected had been put on sale.”

He was apparently one of four men who reportedly became HIV positive after a week-long shoot involving eight British models having sex with each other without using condoms.

Some reports claim that bareback films account for up to 60% of all gay adult film sales.

Adult film director Steven Brewer is campaigning for British producers and models to sign up to a code of practice that would bar barebacking.

“I just don’t want another 18-year-old model crying on my shoulder not sure how to tell his partner or his parents that he is now HIV positive,” Brewer told Newsnight.