Lara Roxx

Template:Female adult bio Lara Roxx is the stage name of a Montreal, Quebec-born Canadian porn actress of Moroccan Sephardic heritage, who, in March 2004, became the first known individual in four years to contract HIV while making a US porn video.

Career

Roxx became famous at age 21, because she was exposed to HIV while doing a pornographic scene with Darren James. This was two months after doing her first scene ever, a double anal, as Roxx earlier said that she relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety.

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.

Roxx, on 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."

This outbreak, the first in four years, led to a voluntary moratorium on porn production for 30 days (60 days was originally announced), starting in April 2004, while it confirmed all possible contacts among porn performers. No adult video production companies were required to comply.

Roxx appeared on Entertainment tonight, in an ABC special. In 2007, on an episode of The Maury Povich Show, she came on to talk to wild teens about her past, and to help them prevent making the mistakes she made in the past.

She is currently working on various projects linked to the 2004 events like the Lara Roxx Foundation who is committed to educating and preventing the propagation of HIV/AIDS.

External links

• The Lara Roxx Foundation
• Porn Faces Reality; at the Village Voice
• Post-porn plans; at the Montreal Mirror
• Interview at lukeisback.com
• Video at YouTube