Lara Roxx
Lara Roxx | |
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 Roxx in 2007 | |
| Born | June 5, 1982 Laval, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Pornographic actress |
Lara Roxx (born June 5, 1982) is a Canadian former pornographic actress who, in March 2004, became the first of three known individuals in four years to contract HIV while making a U.S. pornographic video.
Career
[edit]Roxx became famous in 2004 at age 21, after being exposed to HIV while doing a pornographic scene with Darren James. She allegedly contracted the virus just two months after doing her first scene, a double anal.[1] Roxx said previously that she relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety.[2]
James and Roxx have been banned from any further porn production in the US. At the end of April 2004, it was confirmed that Jessica Dee and Miss Arroyo, after having worked with James, also tested positive for HIV.[3]
Roxx, upon learning about James' being HIV-positive, said, "It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be trusted at all, because it obviously doesn't work," and "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world."[2]
She is the subject of the Canadian documentary film Inside Lara Roxx (2011), directed by Canadian filmmaker and photographer Mia Donovan, which explores Roxx's 2004 HIV infection and her life since the media coverage of this incident subsided.[1][4]
See also
[edit]- Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
- Sexually transmitted infections in the pornography industry
References
[edit]- ^ a b Burnett, Richard (25 January 2013). "Inside Lara Roxx: former Montreal adult-film star on the deadly price of porn fame". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
- ^ a b "Lara Roxx: "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world."". AVN. 17 April 2004. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Another First-Gen Woman Diagnosed as HIV-Positive". Adult Video News. 5 May 2004. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2009.
- ^ "Inside Lara Roxx: Canadian Spectrum". Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. n.d. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- Taormino, Tristan (27 April 2004). "Porn Faces Reality". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 5 March 2008.
- Gravenor, Kristian (13–19 May 2004). "Post-porn Plans". Montreal Mirror. Vol. 19, no. 47. Archived from the original on 14 June 2004.
External links
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- Lara Roxx at IMDb
- Lara Roxx at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Lara Roxx at the Adult Film Database
- Lara Roxx on Twitter