Hungary- Some good news for fans of hot porn action. The world-famous Hungarian hard-core pornography industry, which has been closed down since mid-July, is expected to re-open for business today. While you had probably not heard word of the crisis until today, according to industry website machomedia.hu, Budapest’s armies of porn stars had been sidelined after an HIV test of a male actor on July 14 returned positive, leading to an immediate six-week industry-wide standstill.

Fortunately, lab tests of others who had been “acting” with the infected man showed that the crisis had been contained. In addition to mandating immediate testing of all actors and actresses, the local porn authorities ordered that all porn stars “cease [having] sexual intercourse of any kind (including private [sex acts]), full stop.” It was also revealed that the unlucky man, who did both hetro and homo work, had gotten infected during a “private” job.

Despite the red-alert, the local porn authorities managed to keep the drama out of the headlines, to avoid causing unnecessary panic among local members of the industry, and (one assumes) tarnishing the brand overseas. This, however, apparently led to some controversy:

[Machomedia of course has learned of the situation right away, but we were cooperating by not releasing information to the public. Some people from the industry (who weren’t notified in time) even insisted on that publicity would be the only right solution in such cases… and we perfectly understand their point, but this decision was not ours. We just try to do our best.]

Speaking of doing their best, we must confess that we find it somewhat hard to believe that all these furloughed porn stars would have been able to go a six weeks without so much as a friendly little shag – even if it wasn’t cucumber season.