Ebony Mystique, one of the top adult stars in the industry born in New Haven, United States of America is flexing her registered nurse muscles to educate the public on the best ways to prevent the spread of all STDs by dropping her medical knowledge with PASS (a non-profit organization dedicated to the health and safety of adult industry workers) in the hopes of making positive changes to the way tests are managed for both performers and civilians alike.
It all came to the surface for the award-winning and award-nominated bright beauty when she found out she had contracted gonorrhea from another performer on set earlier this month and felt detection could have happened earlier while the strain was dormant if popular testing centers such as Talent Testing and Cutting Edge swabbed orally and anally instead of testing through blood and urine only
“There should be no performing until rectal and oral swabbing is part of the normal testing routine,” says Ebony. “It’s the adult companies and agents’ interest in the health and safety of their performers, or the government will eventually close down the industry. ”
And now starting on January 1, 2023, PASS Certified announces they will include oral and rectal swabs for chlamydia and gonorrhoea as part of the standard panel to be cleared for work on that day.
“It has been amazing to watch the community organize and demand the inclusion of extragenital swabbing as an industry standard over the past several weeks. This has been a long, necessary change, but until recently we lacked the support to make it happen,” says Ian O’Brien PASS Executive Director. “It is also important to note that while this is an incredible step, we still face significant challenges to access in terms of location and cost. I am optimistic that we can use this momentum to keep building towards systems that are able to protect everyone’s health and safety.”
Ebony concludes, “This is important for anyone who is having intimacy, not only the professionals, intimacy workers and pornstars but for anyone intimacy active, civilians included, and as always when it comes to intimacy these days, it’s up to us to take responsibility and set a good example. The world is watching, let’s do better.”
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