Angela Jika’s grin is “expensive.” For the right price, it will slink into a sneer while she plays the pitiless dominatrix. But “to act a bondage (BDSM) script, I will take N40, 000, and nothing less,” she said.
Through her definition of “expensive” to her cocksure demeanour, her voice crashed through the evening like a broken scream, and a silent shriek crept into her narrative. The impact was chilling.
At 21, Jika can “act anything.” She would submit to restraints and take a beating from a dominant male or dominatrix. She feign a rapture by draping a slick, sultry mask on her face. For N50, 000, she would spread out and make a flora bed of the studio.
Since she made her foray into the porn industry, Jika has done everything. “I have paid my dues. Na to blow (achieve renown) remain,” she said. Money teases off her inhibitions. Hard drugs too. She’d do anything to feed her drug dependence hence at age 17, she let two two married neighbours sleep with her on the backseat of a car, while her boyfriend, Azuka, secretly filmed them.
“We used the N6, 000 to buy crack and my boyfriend said we would use the videos to blackmail them for more money,” said Angela, adding that she ended up as the face of a ‘public sex’ porn fetish.
Her boyfriend, now ex, eventually uploaded the sex video to teach her a lesson. She said, “He did it to punish me because I jilted him.” The moment it happened, she contemplated suicide. “I wanted to kill myself. I nursed the idea of drinking rat poison but I was dissuaded by my friend,” said Angela.
While she stewed in regret, she received a ‘business proposition’ from Vitus, owner of the makeshift pub where she hung out with her friends and ex-boyfriend.
The proposition was simple: if she didn’t mind, he could help her profit off her notoriety. “People are asking about you. My producer friend would like to meet you. He wants to put you in a movie,” he said.
“I asked him what kind of movie it was and he told me it was a romantic movie. I told him I won’t do sex movie with anyone. Dem no fit pay my money (They can’t afford me),” she said. But when she got to the venue, she got swayed by an advanced sum of N20, 000 to make a porn movie. She received a balance of N15, 000 afterward. Earning N35, 000 for a five minute video seemed a walk in the park for the 17-year-old. Now 21, she has become a prominent feature in porn movies. Do her parents know about this? How did they react to her chosen profession?
“My family disowned me. My friends are calling me names but their boyfriends are calling and texting me behind their back. They want to sleep with me. Nigerians need to chill,” she said, lamenting that people take who she is in the scenes too seriously.
“Initially, my parents thought I was training to be an actress in Nollywood until a neighbour’s husband fingered me in one of my porn videos. Nobody asked him how he came by the video. Or what he was doing on the porn site but everybody started calling me ashawo (prostitute),” said Angela, adding that she has gotten used to the name-calling.
She said, “The fact that I do incest movies and Bleep does not mean that I would do it in real life. I think those that are most offended are often those who are yearning to experience such sexual taboos. In late July 2020, during a bathroom quickie with a distant aunt’s husband, he kept saying, ‘Naughty girl. You are a bad child. Daddy will punish you. Don’t tell mummy and so on, while begging me to say: ‘Yes daddy!’ That was weird,” she said, stressing that her greatest agony was the propriety of telling his wife, who is one of her greatest critics, that her husband has an incest porn fetish.
“She would ask how I got to know about it. And they have two daughters; one is in her early teens,” she said.
Angela’s role models in the industry are Ajibola Elizabeth aka Maami Igbagbo and Tobiloba Jolaoso, popularly known as Kingtblakhoc. Both smut film aficionados, were at one time, the poster icons of Nigeria’s cyber-porn culture.
“If I were a man, I would be doing just what Jolaoso has been doing. I go do worse sef. Wetin una don see? You never see anything,” said Angela.
It would be recalled that Jolaoso was recently arrested for allegedly recording a pornographic movie at the Osun Osogbo sacred grove on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, the Osun state capital.
The sacred forest, adjudged home to Osun, the Yoruba goddess of fertility, is a UN-designated World Heritage Site. The police said Jolaoso was arrested for allegedly recording a “sex movie” in the forest. Police spokesman, Yemisi Opalola, said that Jolaoso would appear in court following an investigation as his conduct “could have breached public peace.” Jolaoso subsequently appeared in court and was granted bail.
The Jolaoso factor
From Jolaoso’s desecration of the sacred grove to his teeming fans, including Angela’s celebration of his “feat,” a generational conflict resounds with an instructive peal. It highlights the widening cultural chasms between the older generation and millennials channeling deviant impulses in response to puritan values.
Born May 12, 1993, Jolaoso, a native of Osun, is the first Nigerian and African male to boldly venture into the adult film industry without hiding his identity. As he gained notoriety, he published social media advertisement for performers, bragging that his payment pattern includes a “Nice meal and daddy’ treats. Maybe, I bought you pants, stuff, and helped you send money home and cards. If you like to stay 20 minutes or 20 years, same price; though I usually request for two to three days; N30, 000 if your period came and I did not sleep with you.”
Addressing his prospective clients further, he promised, “You won’t go empty handed; N40, 000 if I didn’t sleep with you, pocket money; N50, 000 if I didn’t sleep with you but took pictures of you without your face; N80, 000: I sleep with you, took pictures or video without your face; N150, 000 if you didn’t care about showing your face; N200, 000 if you show your face and N300, 000 if you show your face, and we have sex and you are good.” He concluded that, “If you have a nice arse, good workshop and you are naturally good,” there could be extra money.
Predictably, several undergraduates and unemployed girls made a beeline for his studio.
Major beneficiaries of Jolaoso’s smut factory include Elizabeth aka Maami Igbago, his ex-girlfriend and “video vixen.” Born April 9, 1995, as the first of five children, in Ipoti, Ekiti State, Elizabeth joined the adult film industry when her mother died in 2016 and she had to cater for herself and her siblings, said acting porn is her calling. She got her break in porn acting when she met Jolaoso shortly after her mother’s death. According to her, Jolaoso is a good person, who is unfortunately, widely misunderstood. Once, during an interview, she described him as leadership material, stressing that, “He is the kind of person that Nigerians should elect as our leader.”
Despite her gushing admiration of Jolaoso, they eventually fell out with each other. Things turned awry, she said, soon after she started getting offers that ran into millions of naira from different people, who were inspired by her performance in Jolaoso’s porn movies. Elizabeth said he got so emotional and scared that she might dump him, and subsequently started inviting girls who lived in guest houses into his studio and their bed. She lamented that Jolaoso ignored her warnings despite getting STDs from the girls he invited in, and subsequently infecting her.
Eventually, she left him and started her own porn outfit. Now, on her own, she offers her videos for premium download. She recently disclosed in an interview that her customers included top Nigerian actors, musicians and politicians.
Like Elizabeth, Chisom Ugwu alias Chyzum Hills also features prominently in Jolaoso’s pornographic movies. The porn actress, who recently argued that the kind of life she lives “is her bloody business” and needs no critics whatsoever in her life.
“I don’t know what’s giving folk grief about my sexual calling. I am a beast of a woman, a force of my own. My decision to act porn is nobody’s business. If I am too much of a woman for you because of that, go to hell. It’s part of my femininity,” said Ucheoma Passions aka Uchybomb, a porn actress.
A nation living in denial
Nigeria has a thriving, underground porn industry but both the government and citizenry are living in denial of it. “We could blame this on fear; fear of acknowledging the ugly truth and a deep-rooted anxiety about the pervasiveness of porn in our increasingly permissive society,” noted Olanrewaju Abdulhameed, a high school counselling psychologist.
Astonishingly, for a country that’s deeply religious, and prominently split along Muslim, Christian faiths, Nigeria has never outlawed pornography, not even in the 1999 Constitution.
While the country’s criminal code slackly defines “obscenity”as any article whose effect, “taken as whole is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt,” those exposed to it, Lagos State has, however, outlawed the public display of graphic sexual material, at the backdrop of calls for the government to block porn sites.
However, due to a lack of federal law against public broadcast of smut movies, pornographic content can be accessed online at any time by anyone including teenagers and minors.
Until recently, all domestic porn were heterosexual but there has been increasing production of same-sex porn. While homosexual activity attracts a 14-year sentence in the country, a couple of actresses have engaged in lesbian porn to wide acclaim.
Nonetheless porn actresses have to deal with “misconceptions” of their “calling.” Mareme Edet aka Uglygalz, in a widely publicised interview, lamented how she is mistaken for a prostitute by the public, stressing that she’s “a porn star.”
According to her, porn acting is a lucrative venture and artistes earn between $3,000 to $10,000 for a five-minute long video. As of 2014, Mareme claimed to have slept with over 100 men and has been confirmed as one of the “verified” porn actresses and producers on a popular x-rated content website. “But it’s not up to 1,000 but getting close to 1000,” she said. At 17, she kept a diary of people she had slept with and the situation that led to their encounters, until her brother-in-law saw the book, “and he flogged me mercilessly,” she revealed.
Back in high school, Mareme almost got expelled for having sex with her principal. She said, “I was the one who actually lured him into it and later, people got to find out and I was almost expelled but in my university days, I willingly traded sex for grades especially for courses I found hard passing,” Mareme said, stressing that she has the blessing of her parents in her “very lucrative calling.”
Acting porn is harder than it looks
While more popular porn artistes claimed they earn between N50, 000 and N100, 000 for a six to 10-minute video, Mary Chigbo, 28, argued that several actresses actually earn lower. The native of Owerri in Imo State, said she got N15, 000 for her first job even though she was promised N30, 000. Afterwards, her fees fluctuated between N20, 000 and N30, 000 for a 10 to 15-minute video.
“I will earn more when I get into the big league. I just need to feature with one big actress to blow (attain renown),” said the young adult who has a fetish for playing a sexually daring teenager and high school girl.
Indeed, life as a porn actress isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Before quitting the business, Delphina Joy aka Savage Trap Queen, complained of physical assault by her former boss and onscreen partner. She made a live Instagram post, crying while filing a report against him in a police station. She also lamented being attacked by fellow porn actresses who felt she was stealing their shine and hugging the limelight.
Beyond the fallacies
Save Jolaoso and fellow smut entrepreneur, Krissy Joh, very few actors are well paid in the porn industry. The only option they have is to quit and start their own productions. “Too many actors trying to start something on their own has led to the prevalence of mediocre porn movies in the industry,”argued Chiedu Raphael, a self-confessed “internationally trained professional.”
According to him, desperate actors seeking to make a name and overnight renown, employ commercial sex workers, teenagers and the underage as performers. “What you have in the end are badly done videos. Poor lighting, poor acting and terrible content,” said Raphael.
Further investigations revealed that male performers make about a third of the money paid to their female colleagues. Kingsley Oroh, 24, lamented that his fee stagnates at N15, 000 to N20, 000 for a 5-10 minute feature even though many of his onscreen female partners earn higher – between N25, 000 to N35, 000.
“The few times I complained, I was told to quit if I didn’t like the money. The director blamed me for being ungrateful. He said I should be thankful for the opportunity he gave me to have sex with different females. Even though most of those girls are oloso (commercial sex workers),” said Oroh.
In truth, the average porn actor must struggle to sustain the singular talent of keeping an erection for long periods of time while a small audience of actors, actresses, directors, and production crew watch.
Consequently, some actors, at least those who can afford it, inject Alprostadil or Caverject into an open vein in their penis. “The average cost of the drug is N15, 000 for a single chamber dose and N30, 000 for a dual chamber dose. It used to be N28, 000. Not many actors can afford that. So, they resort to taking Viagra and local alcoholic beverages mixed with cannabis and other psychotropic substances; anything to get them high and hard, very fast,” said Brown Edet, a porn director.
Further findings revealed that some actors who inject, keep an open wound at the base of their penis through which they inject the stimulant into their organ. They do this to maintain a single needle point on the penis. The downside of this is that, they bleed on their onscreen female partners thus increasing their chances of contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).
Edet said he has seen actors lament their inability to achieve an erection without the drug. Addiction makes them stock the fridge with vials, to be sought, every time they wish to have sex, on the set and even when they are home with their girlfriends. And that is the height of imperilment, he argued.
Exploiting drug dependent youth as performers
More worrisome is the influx of drug dependent youth into the porn business. Investigations revealed that the industry is currently battling the scourge of artistes heavily dependent on heroin, cocaine, Indian Hemp, ecstasy and other psychotropic substances. While some established porn artistes are known to habitually indulge in narcotic use to get high and dull their inhibitions before a performance, several struggling porn makers have developed a knack for employing young adults and teenagers with chronic drug dependence as performers.
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