California officials close porn industry's health clinic

Clinic has treated adult film performers for sexually transmitted diseases without a license for more than a decade, officials say.

LOS ANGELES — California health officials ordered a clinic that serves the pornography industry to close Thursday and denied its application for an operating license.

The Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation clinic has tested and treated adult film performers for sexually transmitted diseases without a license for more than a decade, officials say.

Officials delivered the cease-and-desist order to the clinic in Sherman Oaks a day after a pornographic film performer, Derrick Burts, said he had waited more than a month for the clinic to refer him to a physician and release his medical records after he tested positive for HIV on Oct. 8.

"They would hang up on me when I called," Burts said.

Porn producers had relied on the clinic to maintain a database of performers' test results that they could check prior to filming. It was unclear what would become of that system.

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