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Cherie DeVille Is Worried About Testing in Adult By Lynsey G. Multiple-award-winning MILF performer Cherie DeVille is so concerned about testing in the adult entertainment industry that she took to the Daily Beast to write about it, encouraging performers who have gone back to shooting for studios to be very, very careful. And to use PASS-compliant testing facilities. PASS, the adult industry’s long-standing testing system, has recently been touted as an example for screening and tracking outbreaks of infectious disease by The New York Times. But now that it’s needed more than ever to screen not just STIs but the novel coronavirus too, according to DeVille, the venerable testing protocol is losing steam, and infection tracking in porn is losing coherence. “When some porn production resumed in the summer, performers were happy to learn that PASS had added a COVID-19 test to the test panel,” wrote DeVille for the Daily Beast. “People needed to work,” from performers to directors, crew members, and other BTS folks who hadn’t earned
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paychecks in months. But, when shooting resumed, everyone learned that Talent Testing Service (TTS), had left the PASS system for undisclosed reasons. “This decision turned the adult industry into the Wild West” when it came to testing, declared DeVille. The vacuum that TTS left behind opened cracks in the industry’s testing system for both STIs and COVID-19—and people started slipping through them. On July 31, FSC announced, “Three performers have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 in the past few weeks, resulting in on-set exposures and in one case, the quarantine of a crew.” But, the announcement continued, “Because the testing was done outside of PASS, through production companies that are not members of FSC, there has not been adequate accounting of the incidents.” Nevertheless, in the ensuing month and a half, wrote Deville, “Many performers have continued to get tested at Talent Testing Service.” That’s at least
