This was Holmes last film, made after he was told he had HIV.. so yes.. he was knowingly having sex while infected.. he may not have had AIDS yet though.. so not highly contagious at this point.. after his next check up he was told it HAD turned into aids and he was also beginning to suffer from encephalitis.. he stopped working and stayed home where he deteriorated rapidly.. all the while STILL doing drugs, smoking and drinking..
well even though the quality of the films back then was poor the acting and sex was far superior. most of the films today are done by silicon tits and guys on steroids and hgh. they cant even get off, they have to do it themselves. even the women dont enjoy the sex, it shows on film. you have to go to europe to find good quality movies.. in my opinion good adult movies in the US died ou twenty years ago. Very little features are made today . just the fetish ones
"Rise of the Roman Empress" (1987), aka "Carne bollente." This was probably filmed about two years before Holmes died in 1988, and reportedly he did know he was HIV+ when he made the film, in Italy. The blonde is Ilona Staller, better known as "Ciccolina," a Hungarian-born actress who did go into Italian politics and was elected to the Italian parliament the same year this film was released, 1987. The first brunette in the film, giving Holmes a blowjob, is probably Jacky del Rio; the second one, who is licking Ciccolina's pussy while she's getting fucked, is Marianna; in the latter part of the clip, it's Jacky again, getting it up the butt. Both brunettes were Eurogals who didn't do a lot of porn.
The bad editing is due in part to whoever posted this, not necessarily the filmmakers. There's a longer series of excerpts from this film at:
solid example of how porn makers began using shoddy, sloppy dumb camera work, and how doing so became the accepted way of filming sex for the next three decades. the idea being, if you repeatedly present junk to people and call it gold, over time a large percentage of people don't know the difference, nor haven't any basis for comparison.
The bad editing is due in part to whoever posted this, not necessarily the filmmakers. There's a longer series of excerpts from this film at:
http://xhamster.com/movies/289524/john_holmes_-_italian_classic_flick.html
that features other scenes, including the big orgy finale that includes Amber Lynn and Tracey Adams.