Porn Valley- Gene sez: For the time being, school’s out for a lot of porn companies who have chosen to abide by the unwritten rules of sexual moratorium.

Adultfyi has been talking to a number of companies in the adult business to get a feel for what they’ve been doing to cope with the HIV crisis. The answers are varied as the products they produce. And one company which appears to have had a prescient handle on the situation is Evolution Erotica www.evolutionerotica.com.

Evolution, owned by Tom Byron, launched a series several months ago called Ass Eaters Unanimous which features mutual salad tossing with a heavy reliance on oral skills, and planned to release it as occasion warranted. But now with hardcore being the crap shoot that it is, Evolution has revised its production schedule to accommodate Ass Eaters as a monthly title.

For now, Evolution is concentrating on shooting scenes for that series and stockpiling them if necessary. According to general manager Kevin K, the casts are well selected for their mutual predisposition to salad tossing, while those currently on the quarantine list will just have to wait it out to be hired.

And thanks to a heavy shooting schedule last November and December which anticipated the AEE lull, Evolution also has a full docket of releases in the coming weeks to tide them over. Meat Pushin’ 2 has just come out while Paolo Bonano’s movie, Ass-entials, is the next scheduled release. Also in coming weeks is the much heralded “rough” series, Payback followed by The Sexual Predator and Black Up That White Ass 2.

In the interim, Byron has also launched a paysite, www.tombyronxxx.com which expects to incorporate an affiliate program in short order. Meanwhile, Evolution’s recent move to a larger headquarters has put some additional plans for the Byron site on the back burner because the company’s Internet facilities and editing bay had been in transit.