Charity Porn
Natural High, a Japanese extreme pornography company, is pioneering the concept of "Charity Porn". Here's how it works: they've sent one of their porn stars to Africa. It's not clear whether she then has sex with other Japanese actors in African locations, or with African tribesmen. Most reports say it's the latter, but a few dissenting voices claim it's the former. I'm going to leave it to others to resolve this debate.Anyway, for every one of the resulting DVDs they sell, Natural High donates about $10 to a Kenyan aid organization. Apparently they've had some trouble finding a charity willing to take their money.
The Sociological Images site tries to make some sense of this, suggesting that it might represent "a fetishization of the modernity/tradition binary." They also think that "the videos might function as a sort of sex tourism," but that "the genre is both racist and sexist." This link goes to Sociological Images which contains some NSFW images of the charity porn actress.
My thoughts: Natural High's Charity Porn strangely parallels Burger King's recent Whopper Virgins campaign, in which Burger King hunted down people in remote regions of the world who had so far managed to avoid any exposure to America's junk-food culture (i.e. who had never tasted a Big Mac or Whopper), and then de-virginized them.
Category: Pornography, Sexuality