‘Porn Around the World’: An industry struggles to take hold in a deeply conservative nation

A young woman with magenta-streaked hair and a short, sporty dress enters a stucco home from the bright daylight of the street in an unnamed city in Nigeria. The friend she’s looking for isn’t there, so she waits with the man who’s seated on the bed inside. They comment on the heat and share a joint. After a quick time-lapse, they’re naked and having unprotected sex. Bright sunlight filters through the window. The sex is athletic, covering a variety of positions. It’s difficult to make out the performers’ faces, however; they’re often cut off at the neck as the scene is filmed from above, with whoever’s holding the camera likely perched on a chair. The bodies on camera don’t look like those of typical porn stars: The woman is round in the belly, and the man is rail-thin. The sounds they make are more guttural and less practised than most of what else can be found on the tube sites. And though both participants seem to be having a great time (she’s particularly voracious), the film cuts out before the money shot.

Nevertheless, this is one of the more explicit scenes produced in Nigeria. In fact, much of what’s online from the few small companies currently operating there features far less acrobatic sex, fewer closeups of penetration and a lot more kissing and light touching of non-erogenous zones than American porn. Still, it’s American porn the Nigerian directors are after. “The USA has played a huge role in influencing the African porn industry,” says a man who calls himself Freeman, a spokesperson for FreeThinkers Productions, the company behind the video I’m watching on Xvideos (unceremoniously labeled “Africa/Ganja girl Bleep!!”). “I mean, the USA is like the pioneer!”

FreeThinkers doesn’t have its own website yet; instead, it uploads most of its content to the tube sites for distribution. Freeman tells me that FreeThinkers has been filming hardcore porn for about 10 months, and its NSFW Twitter page proudly declares that FreeThinkers is the “first Official Nigeria/Africa porn company.”

ftnaijapornorgy #naijafucktour #naijaorgy #nigeriaorgy #lagos #lagosorgy #orgy #orgyparty

— @ftpnaijaporn

That claim is definitely up for debate — e.g., a man named Kingtblak informs me that he’s been making videos of himself having explicit sex with a rotating cast of women for almost exactly a year (a full two months before FreeThinkers reports getting its start). Either way, Nigeria’s porn history isn’t long, regardless of who made it first. “[Nigerians] are still very blinded and full of superstitions,” Kingtblak says. “Most people here aren’t comfortable being nude. They genuinely don’t want to be a porn star.”

Surprisingly, for a country that’s deeply religious — and split along Christian and Islamic lines — Nigeria does not outlaw pornography. It goes unmentioned in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and even in the country’s Criminal Code, “obscenity” is only loosely defined as any article whose effect, “taken as whole is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt” those who are likely to see it. And while the state of Lagos has outlawed the public display of graphic sexual material, and Muslims in the national government have proposed a nationwide block of porn sites, there’s no ban currently on the books for explicit films showing straight sex. (Homosexual activity in Nigeria, however, carries a 14-year prison sentence, according to Freeman, so all domestic porn right now is heterosexual.)


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Interesting.

No! Not my Nigeria. Some female romancelanders will now turn to pornstars? No!