February 6, 2006 | The Biz

Chi Chi leaves str8 studio over bareback

Famous drag diva / director Chi Chi LaRue is leaving straight producer Vivid Entertainment, prompted by the studio's move to make condoms optional. “I am a huge condom advocate,” LaRue told XBiz. “That’s one of the reasons I went to Vivid in first place; because they required condoms for their performers.”

Chi Chi is one of the most outspoken supporters of safer sex in porn, and regularly delivers safer sex messages at performance benefits for organizations like Aid for Aids and Aids Project of Los Angeles.

Chi Chi dismisses the argument that condoms reduce the erotic charge of porn. “It’s an issue about protecting the actors,” LaRue told XBiz, “A big dick going in a hole doesn’t bother me with a condom on it. And the condoms we use you can barely see them.”

Chi Chi says she is more than willing to direct for a straight company again. “Just let me use condoms.” 

• Chi Chi leaves Vivid over condom policy [XBiz]