The owner of Kink.com has released a statement after a news conference on Wednesday portrayed his studio in a negative light, accusing the studio actors of trying to generate "hysteria" around HIV.
Adult film actors Cameron Bay and Rod Daily spoke publically about the studio alongside the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has always pushed for performers to where condoms on set.
According to the Los Angeles Times, studio owner Peter Acworth released a statement after Bay described an injury that occurred on set during a shoot. The actor cut his penis and she continued to perform without wearing a condom.
Acworth stressed Bay was given the option to wear a condom and the sex was consensual:
"Ms. Bay's shoot caused us concern long before the subject of HIV came up," he wrote. "While HIV was not transmitted on set, there were incidents on that shoot, including some of the same ones that Ms. Bay identified, that have caused us to reevaluate what we permit on shoots involving members of the public, even when it's consensual."
During the new conference Bay said she had shot 10 scenes before learning she had HIV on Aug. 21, though she tested negative on July 27.
"I'm not here to push anything down anybody's throat, I'm not here to fight anybody's fight," Bay said. "I'm just here to share my story and to get knowledge out there to people and try to prevent anything like this happening to anyone else."
Her real-life boyfriend and fellow porn actor Rod Daily was the second actor to come out as being HIV positive. Since then, reports say there are a total of five actors whom have tested positive, though two still need to be confirmed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade group which monitors the testing.
Daily accused the adult film studios about not protecting their actors, though they have since increased testing for STDs every 14 days instead of 28.
"Their main business is money, not the performers," he said of the industry.
