She started acting in porn in 2010 and left the industry in 2012. She still has more than 5 lacks of Twitter followers who keep in touch with her latest updates and pictures.
In 2015, actor Charlie Sheen publicly announced his HIV diagnosis. Though Sheen has been HIV-positive since 2011, he decided to publicize his condition to raise awareness. Adding to the controversy is his admission that he continued to have relations with women knowing that he was HIV-positive at the time. Still, Sheen might be seeking some redemption, stating that he has to “not shun away from responsibilities and opportunities that drive me to help others… I have a responsibility now to better myself and help a lot of other people.”
"In this case, the actor and production company thought he was HIV-negative during filming," the statement said. "Shortly after his negative test, HIV levels in his body rose rapidly to where he could infect other actors through unprotected sex."
The Free Speech Coalition, a California-based trade group for the adult film industry, said the pair of film shoots linked to the latest infections occurred in September on a Nevada set using tests that do not detect HIV as early as tests done on sets that fully comply with industry standards.
August Ames, 23, said on Dec. 3 that she had been “replaced” for a LA Direct films scene the week before, tweeting out what seemed to be a sour-grapes message.
*FTND Note: Jan Villarubia (real name) eventually left the porn industry and worked with an organization that helped to rehabilitate former performers, and now independently works on books and documentary features to spread awareness on the harms of the porn industry and help other porn performers get out of the business.
She tweeted, “At a loss for words. So sad that my old friend @MsShylaStylez has left us. You were one of the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known.”
STDs in the porn industry, especially HIV/AIDS became a major cause of concern since the 1980s, a career dead end for pornographic film actors. There had been twenty-two reported HIV cases in the U.S. pornography industry, as of 2009. The majority being actors who work in gay films, while the rest were working in heterosexual productions.
Kissing, licking or sucking another person's genitals, i.e. fellatio, cunnilingus, a blow job, giving head.
The latest case is renewing concerns over the health of porn stars as a result of the growing number who have confirmed sexually transmitted diseases.
The Free Speech Coalition said in an email to Reuters that Daily acted in gay and transsexual sex movies in which condoms were used.
Wow victoria Porshe tested positive and she left the industry quietly so why could this woman do the same?
If you work in Porn, then you get what’s coming to you. But behind the money shots and the double bangs there is grief, guilt, abuse, race and gender based pay inequities- yet the pop-up windows for this side of the Porn industry are permanently blocked on your browser,”…because the industry itself is stigmatized and thought of as something to keep at arm’s length.” (1) And yet as a male you can hardly take your laptop in for repairs without being told in serious jest to,” Stop watching porn,” while the Porn industry itself,”…thrives mostly unchecked, behind the curtain of social taboo.” (2) The casualties of the Porn industry cannot be so easily repaired as a virus infected laptop because the human casualties of the Porn industry can be exposed to viruses that lead to chronic medical conditions for which there is no quick fix cure.
New and more rapid response HIV testing measures are not a justification for the continued recording of unprotected sex for profit by this industry. Regardless of the fact that today’s porn is heavily pirated, inundated with amateur porn sites across the web, and accessible 27/7 on mobile screens, none of these changes can absolve the Porn industry of its responsibility to protect its workers. The myriad of other unaddressed problems within the Porn industry, including gender based wage disparities (women are paid more than men, but incur greater risk of exposure to disease and mistreatment than men) (9), mental health and other issues are promised to be addressed in Darren James’ upcoming new book, "My Story: Porn and HIV" which he has decided to self publish and is raising money through a GoFund Me account which you can access HERE. James, who since 2004, has been a tireless advocate of HIV awareness, testing, and critical of the laissez-faire protocols and testing procedures of the industry for which he once worked has become a fighter for safety and equality in this over-exposed, yet hidden work force of the Porn industry.
Despite a series of public hearings surrounding the James case, no state laws in California require condom use in adult films, and the majority of heterosexual porn still features unprotected, or “bareback,” sexual intercourse.
The nurse told The Dr Oz Show she took pre-exposure prophylaxis (PReP) to reduce her chances of contracting the illness and said her medical knowledge meant she knew the disease is no longer a “death sentence”.
