STDs in the porn industry deals with the occupational safety and health issue in the sex industry of transmission of sexually transmitted infections/diseases (STIs/STDs), especially HIV/AIDS, which became a major cause of concern since the 1980s, especially for pornographic film actors.
As of 2009, 22 HIV cases in the U.S.
pornography industry have been reported; roughly half were among men who work in gay films, and the other half were men and women working in heterosexual productions.