Porn Valley- I spoke to Peter Romero of www.povporn.com. For the time being, Romero taking the resourceful approach as suggested by adultfyi.com, is going to shoot around the HIV crisis.

“I’ve always believed, especially in the last 15 years that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade,” Romero states philosophically.

“That’s all I can come up with in the 39 years that I’ve been alive. What you do is switch. There’s plenty of solo girl, softcore work; some websites and I’ve actually called a bunch of people that I thought wouldn’t want me to shoot for them and I’ve been shooting softcore stuff, website content, solo girl stuff. I’ve been booking girl-girl strap-on videos with no pussy licking.”

Romero said he’s also taking the opportunity to work on his locations and working out.

“I’m staying healthy and I’m staying positive and diversifying,” he says. “You just can’t have one source of income. You got to spread around a little. I’ve got four sources of income right now. I have my location. I have my management company. I have my website and I have my production company. If there’s anything I can say to the performers out there, it would be stay healthy and stay positive. They should be working on their websites. The girls who have enough credits should get an agent and go on the road dancing. If they can’t, let me know. I can refer them to a dance agent. They should be taking care of the stuff that they’ve been putting off.”

Romero: I think also if you have a weakened immune system you become more susceptible to infections, viruses, diseases. A lot of factors can play into that, too: drugs, stress, bad eating habits, tearing of the skin, stress on the body. Anal sex is a gnarly act for lack of a better word. Having your asshole stretched open is a pretty traumatic experience to the body. I’m guessing that if you have two dicks in your ass that hole’s probably stretched to the hilt.

Gene: What happens with www.povporn.com?

Romero: I’m a little ahead on my content. I’m about three weeks ahead. I have a lot of solo masturbation on the site and some strap-ons. My members aren’t there just to root for me to fuck a girl. They just want something jerkable. They want to be entertained. And I’ll entertain them. They should understand and I talk to them. I’ll tell them what’s happening. What can they do? If they don’t want to hang around and wait, that’s fine. I think most of them have a lot of faith in me.

Gene: You’ve been through this before, obviously. When a situation like this goes down, do you see a direct affect with less girls inclined to get in the business.

Romero: I think when there’s a wreck on a freeway, people slow down and look at it. Slow down almost to a stop and stare at it. It fascinates them. If you think about this as a regular job, like construction, what kind of delusional person would go into construction thinking that they would never want to smash their finger, dropping boards on their feet, getting splinters, getting up early in the morning or working when it’s raining or cold. But I want to get paid a $1,000 an hour for it. That’s not reality. I’ve worked regular jobs my whole life before I got into modeling, acting, stripping and porno. I’m used to drawbacks about the industry you’re working in.

I’m used to layoffs and slow seasons. That’s why I’ve diversified my life. I’ve have counted on one souce of income. We’re all going to feel this. Absolutely. And the bigger companies are going to feel it the least. Because their lives aren’t affected directly with one day of missing work, or one week or one month. I don’t think the walls of the Flynt building are going to come down next week. I think that a lot of performers will lose their apartments and have to find other sources of income and quit the business.

But if they’re smart, and they can, they’ll do other work. There’s always been lots of solo girl work if you can get it. I found that most people, though, want the bigger paycheck. Right now people are going to have to be patient and take the smaller ones. It’s not much money- a half day for $300. But it’s better than getting another job 9 to 5. This is a pretty easy job that pays a lot of money. If people aren’t saving their money, that’s their problem.