www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/10PORN.html?hp
Mitchell started the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation after a career in the industry. Pushing her inside, he crushed her larynx, sank his teeth into her cheek, broke her nose and raped her. Choking on her blood, she managed to knock him out with a 10-pound dumbbell. It was then that she recognized him as the man who, obsessed with her pornographic movies, had heckled her earlier at the strip club. Then, 22 months after the attack, she founded the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which every month tests about 1,200 sex-video performers for sexually transmitted diseases. Mitchell, 46, has become the most prominent figure in the unfolding story. Scores of actors have flocked to her clinic to be tested, at her insistence. Mitchell said in her tiny office, as she unwrapped a chocolate bar and simultaneously fielded telephone calls, e-mail messages, and questions from a Swiss reporter and four staff members. As of Sunday, five sex-film actors here have been told they have the virus that causes AIDS. The fifth case apparently originated in New York and is unconnected, Dr. Mitchell and her organization called for an immediate halt to filming. Production is not expected to resume until at least June 8. Her clinic was able to trace the sexual contacts between the two actors who initially tested positive and almost 60 other performers. Potentially, the number of actors exposed could be large, given that they sometimes perform three or four scenes a day, often with multiple partners. Mitchell was an Off Broadway actress and dancer she toured with the Martha Graham company before starring in hard-core movies in the mid-1970's. It was, she acknowledged, a radical, liberating rupture from her upbringing. Mitchell delved into heroin, she said, an addiction that would last nearly two decades. Mitchell who legally changed her last name in 1975 in homage to Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of Attorney General John N. Mitchell in the Nixon administration made some 1,000 sex movies over 20 years, including 38 that she directed.
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