Great question. Before I worked in the industry, I was frustrated by the lack of condoms in porn; in my first movie, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (which I did with Evil Angel in 1999), I insisted everyone use condoms except for one real-life couple (and I made sure to establish they were a couple). When I began directing again, I was still convinced that the lack of condoms was all about this notion the industry bought into that "viewers don't want to see condoms in porn—it ruins the fantasy." All the companies claimed that porn without condoms sold much, much more than porn with condoms. They said it the market was driving condom-free porn. Then I began asking performers, and the responses I heard really surprised me. Some male performers said they find it more difficult to perform while wearing a condom; it's harder for them to get hard and stay hard for as long as they have to. Scenes tend to go longer, putting more pressure on them. Some of them just cannot do a scene with a condom. In turn, female performers have the same complaint: condom scenes take a lot longer to shoot, which means more hours and more fucking, thus it's physically harder on them. So lots of performers said that if given the choice, they prefer no condoms. Others disagree and would rather use condoms but don't make it mandatory because they say they lose work, which is absolutely true. My theory is that if every single company got on board and went all condom then the viewers would have to adjust. That's what happened in gay porn and it worked for a while until barebacking porn began to grow. I assume the same would happen in straight porn. I want my performers to be safe on my set. I don't want someone to catch an STI/STD on my set. But I also want to empower them to make the choices that work for them, so I am torn.

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