Lara Roxx
{{short description|Canadian actress (born 1982)}}
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| birth_place = Laval, Quebec, Canada
| occupation = Pornographic actress
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Lara Roxx (born June 5, 1982) is a Canadian former pornographic actress who, in March 2004, became the first of three known individuals in four years to contract HIV while making a U.S. pornographic video.
Career
Roxx became famous in 2004 at age 21, after being exposed to HIV while doing a pornographic scene with Darren James. She allegedly contracted the virus just two months after doing her first scene, a double anal.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/01/25/inside-lara-roxx-former-montreal-adult-film-star-on-the-deadly-price-of-porn-fame/ |title=Inside Lara Roxx: former Montreal adult-film star on the deadly price of porn fame |work=Montreal Gazette |date=January 25, 2013 |accessdate=January 26, 2013 |last=Burnett |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Burnett |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129020555/http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/01/25/inside-lara-roxx-former-montreal-adult-film-star-on-the-deadly-price-of-porn-fame/ |url-status=live}} Roxx said previously that she relied on the industry's HIV standards to ensure her safety.{{cite web |author1= |title=Lara Roxx: "I thought porn people were the cleanest people in the world." |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/lara-roxx-8220-i-thought-porn-people-were-the-cleanest-people-in-the-world-8221-38298.html |website=AVN |access-date=1 January 2024 |date=17 Apr 2004}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://business.avn.com/articles/15987.html |title=Another First-Gen Woman Diagnosed as HIV-Positive |work=Adult Video News |date=2004-05-05 |accessdate=2009-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821144824/http://business.avn.com/articles/15987.html |archivedate=2009-08-21}}
Roxx, upon 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."
She is the subject of the Canadian documentary film Inside Lara Roxx (2011), directed by Canadian filmmaker and photographer Mia Donovan, which explores Roxx's 2004 HIV infection and her life since the media coverage of this incident subsided.{{cite web |author= |date=n.d. |title=Inside Lara Roxx: Canadian Spectrum |url=http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/inside_lara_roxx |publisher=Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207162454/http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/inside_lara_roxx |archivedate=2012-02-07}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite news |first=Tristan |last=Taormino |title=Porn Faces Reality |newspaper=Village Voice |date=April 27, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-03-05 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0418,182946,53111,24.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305195955/https://www.villagevoice.com/people/0418,182946,53111,24.html}}
- {{cite news |first=Kristian |last=Gravenor |title=Post-porn Plans |newspaper=Montreal Mirror |date=May 13–19, 2004 |volume=19 |issue=47 |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2004/051304/news3.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040614210325/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2004/051304/news3.html}}
External links
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- {{IMDb name|1597377|Lara Roxx}}
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- {{Twitter|lararoxx}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Actresses from Quebec
Category:Canadian pornographic film actresses