10 Porn Stars Who Made National News

By Jay Anderson /

5. Cameron Bay

Cameron Bay was a semi-regular member of the porn community who wasn't really all that well-known until news that she was HIV positive broke last year. The actress identified herself after news broke of a porn moratorium in California as a result of an actress having tested positive. Bay's case became all the more disturbing as details of how she contracted the disease came out: during a porn shoot with several cast and crew members present, her partner began bleeding from his penis. Shooting was stopped just long enough to clean him up, but at no time did anyone require the actor to use a condom. Both Bay and the actor had passed recent HIV/STI screenings, and Bay stated that she "left it up to him" as to whether he wanted to use one. In the end, other actors, and Bay's boyfriend, contracted the disease as well, with the total number being either four or five (a fifth actor did initially test positive but later produced multiple negative tests). This led to lawmakers pushing for mandatory condom use on porn sets.