Ex Porn Performer Cameron Adams -- Formerly known as "Cameron Bay"
HIV Positive, Advocate for HIV Awareness and Prevention, Advocate for Improved Health and Safety in the Porn Industry, Volunteer AntiPornography.org
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Cameron Adams is a former porn performer who was known in the industry as "Cameron Bay." Cameron only did porn briefly for a few months in 2013, but during that time she sustained a serious injury to her breast, got a serious kidney infection, and contracted HIV.
After these tragedies and leaving porn Cameron could have retreated into anonymity to protect her privacy and just take care of herself alone. But instead she has bravely decided to speak out to improve health and safety standards and practices in the porn industry, (particularly advocating for mandatory condom usage), in order to prevent others from going through the nightmare that she has, and to raise awareness about HIV prevention and treatment and to end stigma for those who are HIV positive. (Cameron has worked with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation while doing this.)
We are proud of Cameron's courage and integrity, and are pleased to call her our friend and volunteer. We're also proud to facilitate the sharing of her cautionary story and her important message about how how harmful and dangerous it currently is to work in the unregulated, unsafe, and often uncaring and corrupt porn industry.
If anyone would like to interview Cameron or have her share her story about getting injured and contracting HIV and other infections in porn, please contact us through our contact page, or contact Cameron through her social networking sites. See links further down this page.
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VIDEOS
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WATCH CAMERON SHARE HER STORY OF FINDING OUT SHE WAS HIV POSITIVE WHILE WORKING IN THE PORN INDUSTRY
AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION PRESS CONFERENCE WITH 4 HIV POSITIVE EX PORN PERFORMERS (Including Joshua Rodgers, aka "Rod Daily," Cameron's ex boyfriend.)
Recorded Sept. 18, 2013
NOTE: If you wish to watch Cameron's sections only, see 2:29 - 6:40, 27:41 - 33:58, 38:26 - 39:21, and 41:58 until the end of the video.
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Cameron testifying at the California Senate about contracting HIV while working in porn -- in support of the mandatory condoms in porn bill - AB 1576. May 21, 2014
Leave positive feedback for Cameron on this video of ours at YouTube!
Cameron and 5 other ex porn performers advocating for condoms in porn at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation press conference on September 14, 2015. Four of the ex performers are HIV postive.
Cameron's part begins at 6:15, with the introduction of her. All of the other former porn performers speak after her.
The other ex porn performers speaking out are "Sofia Delgado," Brittany Santangelo (known as "Vanessa Blake" in porn), Hayden Winters, Darren Edwards (known as "Darren James" in porn), and Derrick Burts.
-- Published as part of a series of 12 articles at the online magazine Ravishly.com in September 2014, examining whether working in the sex industry is "empowering or enslaving" for women, "... or a lot more complicated than either."
Posted: 09/12/2013 3:04 am EDT Updated: 02/08/2014 4:59 pm EST
Owning nothing but a backpack full of clothes, Cameron Bay started working as an escort, hoping to rebuild her life. A few months ago, she performed in her first-ever porn scene -- an orgy with 10 people, she said. After just nine more scenes, she discovered she has HIV. Nobody's sure where or when she contracted it.
During her scenes, none of the male performers she had sex with ever used a condom, she said. One female performer told her, "Don't even bring it up because they have somebody waiting to replace you."
"I learned that there's always someone younger and sexier, willing to do something you're not. It's a dog-eat-dog world," Bay said in an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post. "I think we need more choices because of that. Condoms should be a choice."
Last November, LA voters passed a measure mandating condom use in porn, despite a large, coordinated campaign against it by the porn industry. But since then, industry insiders say there has been no enforcement of the new law.
After having sex with five men in her first porn scene, Bay got a kidney infection and was sick for weeks (photo). She shot all but one of her scenes in LA for Hustler, Zero Tolerance and 21st Sextury. The only scene not shot in LA was her last scene, shot on July 31 for Kink.com in San Francisco, where the company is based. It's also the only time she shot BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism) and anal sex.
Bay was told that condoms were optional on that final shoot. She told people on set that she would leave the choice up to her male scene partner. Bay said to HuffPost she didn't think she needed to ask for a condom because her male co-star had a negative STD test. Kink.com confirmed to HuffPost that Bay was offered a condom but it was not used.
During the scene, a male extra hit Bay too hard on set and badly injured her left-breast tissue. Kink.com paid for her hospital visit through workers compensation, and her doctor ordered her not to work for two weeks so that her breast could recover, Bay said. The surgery she needs on her breast, which is artificially enlarged, has now been postponed -- possibly permanently -- because she has HIV.
Kink.com confirmed to HuffPost that performers' injuries on set are covered by workers compensation but the company's HR department was not available for comment on Bay's injury.
In the same shoot, there was a separate incident when "really, really bad stuff" happened on set, Bay said. "Let's just say there was an incident, and we should have stopped shooting," she said, declining to give more details. "Very poor decisions by a few of us."
"I was new to the industry. When I was told that I was safe to shoot, I was like, 'OK, cool,'" she said. "I had no idea. I really didn't understand."
Warning: This article addresses graphic subject matter that may not be appropriate for all readers.
With news cameras flashing, adult film performer Cameron Bay told reporters that in her last porn shoot before testing positive for HIV, her partner's penis was bleeding -- and he wasn't wearing a condom. After stopping momentarily, the cameras continued rolling, she said.
Bay, whose positive HIV test sparked the first of two porn moratoriums in the last month, spoke Wednesday at a Hollywood press conference with other adult film performers, including two who said they also contracted HIV this year. The press conference was coordinated by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which advocates for mandatory condom use in porn.
Five current and former porn performers spoke about the dangers and uncertainty of life in the adult film industry. While the performers said they can't be sure when and where they contracted HIV, they agreed the industry is not adequately protecting its performers.
Choking back tears, Bay continued to describe her last shoot, filmed at a public bar in San Francisco for Kink.com.
"There were up to 50 people in the room with us. And we were laying on top of them. And they were touching inappropriately," Bay said. "It all happened so fast. I didn’t realize how unsafe it was until I saw the pictures ... You're on a whole other level when you're doing something so extreme."
Please feel free to share your positive feedback with Cameron at her social networking accounts below: (Or on our YouTube videos of her linked to higher up on this page)
-- What porn users and the porn industry want everyone to believe it's like: always fun, safe and glamorous, with happy performers who never get sick or injured
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THE HARSH REALITY OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF PORN
-- Photos of Cameron while sick and injured in porn, and speaking out after contracting HIV while in porn
WARNING: Includes partial nudity and disturbing content.
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"Because at the end of the day, it's about your safety. And a piece of paper that says you're clear to shoot doesn't mean anything."
-- Cameron Adams (AKA Cameron Bay)
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AUTHENTIC CAMERON
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CURRENT PHOTOS OF CAMERON
and her sweet puppy Elvis
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Cameron Adams is a former porn performer who was known in the industry as "Cameron Bay." Cameron only did porn briefly for a few months in 2013, but during that time she sustained a serious injury to her breast, got a serious kidney infection, and contracted HIV. 
