Producer responsibilities

• Producers should discuss sexual health with models at the interview / audition / casting stage
• Producers should ensure that models have an accurate understanding of the relative risks of the sex practices they will undertake in the course of production
• Producers should ask to see results of sexual health tests from a GUM clinic in the form of certificates before shooting.
• If shooting anal sex, either protected (with condoms) or unprotected (without condoms), the minimum they should ask for is one certificate that is dated within 30 days of the shoot. Some producers may wish to ask for a certificate dated with 20 or 14 days of the shoot. If the lesser time is required (30 days) the model should be given enough time to update their certificate.
• If shooting oral sex unprotected (without condoms), the minimum they should ask for is one certificate that is dated within 30 days of the shoot. Some producers may wish to ask for a certificate dated with 20 or 14 days of the shoot. If the lesser time is required (30 days) the model should be given enough time to update their certificates.
• Producers are advised that where HIV positive models work together they should use condoms to protect against re-infection with other strains of HIV (Which can lead to resistance to the cocktails of drugs used to treat HIV). Where anal sex is unprotected (without condoms) the producers should advise the models of the risks of cross or re-infection.
• Producers need to make independent sexual health information available to models via references to particular heath agency websites or information leaflets or packs
• Producers should recommend to all models that they are vaccinated against Hepatitis B and where possible Hepatitis A.
• Producers may request that a model present themselves for tests at a GUM Clinic prior to a shoot
• Producers need to give models sufficient notice If they require up to date certificates before a shoot
• Producers are responsible under the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Control of Disease Act (1984) for the health of the models they employ. Because of window periods, producers who rely on the antibody test for HIV and ask their models to perform anal sex without the use of condoms sex may, in the terms of the law, cause their models to take a significant risk of contracting HIV. Producers are advised that to knowingly do this may constitute a criminal offence.