A South African first: Black porn
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JOHANNESBURG — A tall, leggy actress peels off her skirt and top to dance in what in some places would be an unremarkable movie scene — except that this is porn in South Africa made by blacks, for blacks.
The dialog, as scant as the clothing, is spoken in Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho, in a film that producer Tau Morena, 30, describes as a “voyeuristic experience” designed to portray the “average guy and girl next door, having great sex.”
The movie, Mapona Volume 1 (naked in Sotho) has caused a stir among social conservatives in a country that under apartheid saw porn banned from open public sale, leading to a rampant under-the-counter market.
It has also grabbed people’s attention because unlike most locally produced DVD erotica the men are filmed putting on condoms before sex, and all actors underwent mandatory tests for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
“We want to show using condoms can be fun and practical,” says Morena, who insists that if people “condomise” before sex then their health will benefit.
South Africa has 5.6 million people who are HIV-positive out of a 50-million population, according to UN estimates..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101215com5.html
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