For those who've questioned whether or not a person can still 'get off' watching their scenes, it's complicated. I'm already aware that many of those men have already passed.
It was her advocacy and blackballing people in the industry over barebacking that allowed everyone to take their eyes of the ball as the business slid into the back-biting bitchy dying industry that it is (not that it's undeserved, but still.). I'd say that ChiChi was the single person most responsible for the decline of gay porn because she was obsessed with condoms to the exclusion of everything else, be it rampant drug abuse to piracy. ChiChi is a scourge upon gay porn that is indelible. Regarding Joey Stefano, it wasn't finding out that he was HIV+ that killed him it was ChiChi LaRue dealing his drugs and pimping him out that killed him. However, there's treatment that cures Hep-C completely, although it is prohibitively expensive, even with good health insurance. In fact, there are more Hep-C+ than HIV+ people in the world.
The liver issues cited are likely due to Hep C, which you can have for literally decades with no outward manifestations.
