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That might shock parents is that recruiting porn actors is not only child’s play, but also many youngsters are actually dying to bare it all before the cameras.
Trawling through web forums, one encounters countless young men and women.
For instance, one Moha Bak-thir from Nairobi is pleading for a chance to act in a pornographic movie.
He writes: “I am 16 years of age and very professional in sex. I am serious about acting in a porn movie, please help. My email is [email protected] or text me on ma phone number is 0704 XXXXXX. I will do anything even if is joining Illuminati to be a porn star pliiiiz I rly nid help...”
Along Duruma Road, an opening between a row of buildings will lead you to steep staircase.
On top of the stairs is an old, dimly lit pub and restaurant frequented by cheap hookers.
It is around 3pm. The crowd is thin and the girls look bored. Scores of girls are hurdled in groups, chatting away with bottls of soda on their tables. I ask one sipping a Guinness straight from the bottle if she could star in a porn movie.
“Yes, if you pay me well. I will be in your movie,” she says. Her names is Ann and she is just 22.
When asked what her friends and relatives would think of her when they see her in a pron movie, she waves the question away defiantly.
“What would they be doing watching a porn movie in the first place?” she scoffs.
Florence Wambui, who takes pride in being the first Kenyan porn star and once posted sexually explicit photos on her Twitter profile, says it is all about money.
“It is about business. If you can make good money acting in a porn movie, then why should you be afraid? At the end of the day, it’s about how comfortable your life is. There is no holiness in poverty,” she writes in an email conversation with this journalist.
She, however warns that porn is the wrong platform for those seeking sexual lessons. Everything in porn is fake - from the notion that girls enjoy sex, to squirting. You can’t squirt in a porn movie. It is impossible to squirt on cue. Porn is the wrong teacher (sic) on matters sex. It’s simply for enjoyment, not practice,” says Wambui.
In Mombasa, girls are paid as much as $500 (Sh48,250) to have sex on camera with white men. The videos usually end up in international porn sites where people pay subscription fees to watch.
-David Odongo
