Ummm...okay. In "Why am I posting this, because I don't care" news, a porn star, Mr. Markus has apparently had one too many sex partners and got a staff infection. Ooooops! Therundown.tv reports:
The porn actor, who uses the name Mr.
Marcus, told trade journal Adult Video News (AVN) he went to his
personal doctor when he felt sick on July 11. The doctor ran tests, and
the next day learned Mr. Marcus tested positive for syphilis. The
following day, he was given a penicillin shot and told to abstain from
sex.
“My personal doctor doesn’t know what I do
for a living,” Mr. Marcus told the website. “So his thing was just don’t
have any sex for 7-10 days. Once I did that shot I felt pretty
confident. Every doctor I talked to up to that point said, ‘You get the
shot. That’s it.’”
Although subsequent testing showed syphilis
was still in his system, 11 days after he received treatment, on July
24, Mr. Marcus shot a sex scene. He says the producer didn’t check his
name in the Talent Testing Service (TTS) database, only asked to see a
physical proof of his test results.
Mr. Marcus showed the producer a copy on
his cell phone, but admits he hid the part that showed he had tested
positive for syphilis.
“I showed that my HIV was clear, my
gonorrhea and chlamydia were fine,” he told AVN. “You didn’t see the
syphilis part of the test because of the way I showed it.”
Mr. Marcus says he doesn’t think he did
anything wrong — even though he had a sexually transmitted disease when
he had sex with other performers.
“I don’t feel that was a mistake,” he said.
“I was treated. I allowed the medicine to take effect, and I wanted to
proceed as normal. I wanted to go back to work as usual.”
Mr. Marcus also admits he doctored test
results he received from TTS to give to his “Blazing Bucks” director.
The director thought the test looked suspicious, prompting an
investigation into Mr. Marcus’ health.
“I tried to cover it up,” he told AVN. “I
didn’t want to have to share that part because it was like the Scarlet
Letter. Because then it’s like Mr. Marcus, syphilis?”
He says he came clean after reports
surfaced this week of a syphilis outbreak among porn performers,
prompting a 10-day halt in filming so more than 1,000 actors could get
tested.
All of Mr. Marcus partners have tested
negative for syphilis, but the AP reports there are at least nine other
cases of syphilis.
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