Stay Safe

Going to a shoot can be a risky thing - meeting someone you don't know, possibly alone.

Trust your gut instinct

If it's telling you not to take the job, DON'T.
If you've arrived somewhere and you are getting dodgy vibes, leave. Put it down to experience.

Have a Car

If you have driven to the location you can leave whenever you like. If you got collected from a station and are now in some soulless suburb,or, worse still, the countryside, you can't.

Have escape money

If you've got 100 quid in cash you can get home.

Chaperones

All good photographers/producers will allow a chaperone, and while ask them to stay out of the room/studio they will be within earshot.

Locations

Professional Studios are obviously much safer than hotels and houses.
If you work from home, think about rigging up a security camera to monitor the room(s) you shoot in.

Safety in Spanking/CP and hard BDSM/Fetish

If this isn't a scene you are personally into, but will consider for shoots, be warned.

I know too many models who have said to this type of work, and then been hurt/bruised much more badly than they expected. The work can pay very well, but if you do get bruised, you need to take time off.

My advice is to ask the following questions:-

• Will it hurt?
• Will it bruise?
• Will it bleed?
• Do you respect safe words?

GET EVERYTHING IN WRITING.

If you feel that a photographer/producer has mislead you, please let me know as if several models flag the same person, I can delete them from this site.

If someone goes beyond the agreed terms - i.e. does things to which you have not consented, they are guilty of the criminal offence of assault (possibly worse). This is something which you can go to the police with. More to the point, you can tell the guy that if he doesn't back off, you will do so.

HIV, STDs and Certificates

For anything involving unprotected sex, there are risks.

Professionals doing hardcore get HIV/STD Certificates - showing that they are clean.

Certs cover:-

• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhoea
• Syphilis
• HIV

Certs are generally considered valid for 30 days (1 month) from DATE OF TEST. (NHS certs can take a week+ to arrive, so if using the NHS, get tested every three weeks.

Places to get tested. This is not a full list, if you know other places, just add them in a comment. NHS hospitals make their own rules, and while they will all TEST for free, most do not supply certs, or they charge for them, and some I have been told charge £100+. Porn modeling is not something most hospitals want to encourage by handing out certs easily.

• London - Charing Cross Hospital - Main place for adult testing, used by most London area people. Certs are £35. Nearest Tube - Hammersmith. www.chelwest.nhs.uk/
• London - Private option - Regents Park Clinic.
• Swindon - Great Western Hospital - www.swindon-marlborough.nhs.uk/ - model advised they do certs, £40 (from autumn 07).
• Bristol - Milne Centre for Sexual Health, Bristol Royal Infirmary, BS2 8HW, 0117 928 2580, Payment - we have been told £15.
• Bristol - Clinic Express - private clinic. www.clinic-express.co.uk/
• Bath - RUH - www.ruh.nhs.uk/.
• Manchester and London - Regents Park Clinic - private clinic used by many of the top girls. Fast turn round of results and certs. http://www.regentsparkclinic.com/
• Mansfield - Kingsmill hospital mansfield free test but charge £30.00 for certs takes 10 days to get certs after testing
• Newcastle Upon Tyne - Newcastle General does certs for £15 takes a week to get results and certs
• Nottingham - Kings Mill Hospital, seems £30 for certs.
• Manchester - Medilab (private clinic)
• Manchester - Trafford Hospital