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Who could say....porn drugs men women....guy was living pretty fast and loose in LA in the 80s




Check out -Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes


"Bill Amerson: John and I started HIV testing for all the adult film performers starting in 1985. We were the very first to insist that all porn actors and actress take an AIDS test. So... to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test, both John and I went to a clinic and took the AIDS test together. We both came back negative. So, about four or five months later, we went back to take another test because we were going to do it every six months to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test and that we were okay. On the second test, my test came back negative... John's came back positive. I was with John in the doctor's office when the doctor informed him that he was HIV positive. He explained to John about many things and what conversion was, and he told John that he could live a healthy life for another 15, maybe 20 years if John changed his lifestyle right away. The doctor told John that he should stop smoking cigarettes, quick drinking, quick doing drugs, start taking lots of vitamins and start watching his diet. John... didn't hear what the doctor said. He sat there, and he just didn't hear what the doctor said. And... that's a sore spot with me that lingers to this day. John could have lived a good number of more years had he not been that immature and reactive to the news. John, being immature and reactive as always, immediately doubled what he drank, doubled his drug usage, tripled his smoking habit. John just went from smoking a pack, to up to five packs of cigarettes a day. Drank a quart of scotch a day, and just didn't give a shit about anything. He knew he was going to die. John just didn't give a shit."

"William Margold: [regarding Holmes] He was just a little boy with a big dick who found a pot of gold at the end of his zipper.

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
 

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Check out -Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes


"Bill Amerson: John and I started HIV testing for all the adult film performers starting in 1985. We were the very first to insist that all porn actors and actress take an AIDS test. So... to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test, both John and I went to a clinic and took the AIDS test together. We both came back negative. So, about four or five months later, we went back to take another test because we were going to do it every six months to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test and that we were okay. On the second test, my test came back negative... John's came back positive. I was with John in the doctor's office when the doctor informed him that he was HIV positive. He explained to John about many things and what conversion was, and he told John that he could live a healthy life for another 15, maybe 20 years if John changed his lifestyle right away. The doctor told John that he should stop smoking cigarettes, quick drinking, quick doing drugs, start taking lots of vitamins and start watching his diet. John... didn't hear what the doctor said. He sat there, and he just didn't hear what the doctor said. And... that's a sore spot with me that lingers to this day. John could have lived a good number of more years had he not been that immature and reactive to the news. John, being immature and reactive as always, immediately doubled what he drank, doubled his drug usage, tripled his smoking habit. John just went from smoking a pack, to up to five packs of cigarettes a day. Drank a quart of scotch a day, and just didn't give a shit about anything. He knew he was going to die. John just didn't give a shit."

"William Margold: [regarding Holmes] He was just a little boy with a big dick who found a pot of gold at the end of his zipper.

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
Yeah this guy was gonna live fast and die young.....if aids didn't get him ....it would have been something.....overdose....jealous lover...alchole poisoning....shot liver....beat to death by a mobsterr's goon...car accident...anything

I think he was shot by a husband Of a wife he was fucking
 

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So, he's diagnosed HIV Positive at a time when AIDS was a death sentence, and his doctor tells him to stop smoking and take vitamins??
 

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So, he's diagnosed HIV Positive at a time when AIDS was a death sentence, and his doctor tells him to stop smoking and take vitamins??
Yes. AIDS is an immune deficiency disease. The healthier you are, the longer you live. Excessive drinking, smoking and poor diet are anything but healthy.
 
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Yes. AIDS is an immune deficiency disease. The healthier you are, the longer you live. Excessive drinking, smoking and poor diet are anything but healthy.

Bull.

Obviously you did not personally know anyone who died from AIDS...
 

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My brother had hiv and has died. Hiv and AIDS are not the same thing but having hiv can lead to AIDS. As the post above said The doctor told John he was hiv positive. His hiv led to AIDS.
 

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Bull.

Obviously you did not personally know anyone who died from AIDS...

I do. And it's not bull. At all.

I lost a close friend in 1981. He was the first of many. MANY!

He started getting sick the end of 1980, and died in June of 1981. At that time it was called the wasting disease. And became quite the political hot potato that was used by politicians and others to excuse their discrimination and hatefulness against gays. I know because I was there. Where were you?

Well before HIV/AIDS was recognized and identified for what it became, it was the gay disease. So who cared who or how many of "us" perished. Until straight folks started exhibiting the same symptoms...and dying. I'm thankful for the CDC and Anthony Fauci. The thousands of Medical professionals without political agendas. For activists like Elizabeth Taylor. Unlike the Reagan administration, who chose to look away.

You ever had a co-worker refuse to sit next to you because you were gay and might have the disease? That's but one example of how ignorant it was back then. Routinely.

The medicines available today were only a glimmer of hope back in the day. For most infected, it was a death sentence. Today, almost 40 years later, it seems to be manageable with medicine.

I'm always amused by those who look at events from years ago through today's lenses. And then speak in absolutes. When they could not be more wrong.
 
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My brother had hiv and has died. Hiv and AIDS are not the same thing but having hiv can lead to AIDS. As the post above said The doctor told John he was hiv positive. His hiv led to AIDS.

I am truly sorry for your loss.
 
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I am truly sorry for your loss.
As I am with yours.

My brother had a one night stand with a girl who was positive. He didn't know she was given positive and I don't even know whether she knew she was, at the time.
 

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As I am with yours.

My brother had a one night stand with a girl who was positive. He didn't know she was given positive and I don't even know whether she knew she was, at the time.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

What you described with your brother's situation mirrors the situations of so many of the friends I lost. They had no idea that their sexual partner was infected with the virus. Cuz symptoms didn't always appear until well after being infected and subsequently, unknowingly infecting others.

I've had a wonderful life. I can only imagine how much fuller and complete it might/could have been had this awful disease been addressed sooner. I'm very lucky to be alive as I was a very busy young man in the 1970s. I met my husband in 1978 and we've been together since. That goodness we were both like-minded monogamous people!

Thanks again for sharing your brother's story.
 
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I appreciate everyone's sincere response and sorry for your personal losses.

This question for me was born from curiosity and circumspection about society nowadays, sexuality and the disease from a larger point of view. I don't have answers or a position on it. I just was curious and wondering. Because as a straight male my awareness of the disease has come by what many would consider as traditionally "masculine" men. Like Magic Johnson or Charlie Sheen. And to an earlier extent John Holmes. And how these men got it.

It is a bit ironic to me that an all star athlete, a successful actor who played a lothario and leading man, as well as arguably the "biggest" male porn star in the world have been afflicted by a disease that primarily gay men have suffered from.
 

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Check out -Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes


"Bill Amerson: John and I started HIV testing for all the adult film performers starting in 1985. We were the very first to insist that all porn actors and actress take an AIDS test. So... to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test, both John and I went to a clinic and took the AIDS test together. We both came back negative. So, about four or five months later, we went back to take another test because we were going to do it every six months to show the industry that we weren't afraid of the test and that we were okay. On the second test, my test came back negative... John's came back positive. I was with John in the doctor's office when the doctor informed him that he was HIV positive. He explained to John about many things and what conversion was, and he told John that he could live a healthy life for another 15, maybe 20 years if John changed his lifestyle right away. The doctor told John that he should stop smoking cigarettes, quick drinking, quick doing drugs, start taking lots of vitamins and start watching his diet. John... didn't hear what the doctor said. He sat there, and he just didn't hear what the doctor said. And... that's a sore spot with me that lingers to this day. John could have lived a good number of more years had he not been that immature and reactive to the news. John, being immature and reactive as always, immediately doubled what he drank, doubled his drug usage, tripled his smoking habit. John just went from smoking a pack, to up to five packs of cigarettes a day. Drank a quart of scotch a day, and just didn't give a shit about anything. He knew he was going to die. John just didn't give a shit."

"William Margold: [regarding Holmes] He was just a little boy with a big dick who found a pot of gold at the end of his zipper.

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes
 
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I appreciate everyone's sincere response and sorry for your personal losses.

It is a bit ironic to me that an all star athlete, a successful actor who played a lothario and leading man, as well as arguably the "biggest" male porn star in the world have been afflicted by a disease that primarily gay men have suffered from.

Why is that ironic? Engaging in unprotected sex increases the likelihood of contracting various STD/STIs, including HIV/AIDS.
 
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Why is that ironic? Engaging in unprotected sex increases the likelihood of contracting various STD/STIs, including HIV/AIDS.

Just as there are some authors and sociologists who try to make the case that WWII was worth all the horror and death just for the great examples of human sacrifice, what we learn from Holmes life is how valuable a 14-inch dick was back in the 1970s. Apparently Holmes was given a very large “free pass” to abuse the law, women, and society in general due to some distorted form of mass-dick worship.

As for HIV, Holmes is reported to have had sex with 1k to 14k individuals. Coupled with that he participated in a long and extensive addiction to hard drugs. He generally had no interest in anyone but himself. As a result his lifestyle was a magnet for HIV and as an agent for spreading it.

If you have watched the YouTube presentation and consider most of it to be factual, are there any redeeming qualities you can find about Holmes? I can’t find any other than his high profile example of human depravity.
 

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Yes. and gay porn in the 80s.

Just as there are some authors and sociologists who try to make the case that WWII was worth all the horror and death just for the great examples of human sacrifice, what we learn from Holmes life is how valuable a 14-inch dick was back in the 1970s. Apparently Holmes was given a very large “free pass” to abuse the law, women, and society in general due to some distorted form of mass-dick worship.

As for HIV, Holmes is reported to have had sex with 1k to 14k individuals. Coupled with that he participated in a long and extensive addiction to hard drugs. He generally had no interest in anyone but himself. As a result his lifestyle was a magnet for HIV and as an agent for spreading it.

If you have watched the YouTube presentation and consider most of it to be factual, are there any redeeming qualities you can find about Holmes? I can’t find any other than his high profile example of human depravity.