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French article from France24, in which some Egyptians are interviewed about watching pornography picturing Arab or muslim women. Here are some excerpts that I put through Google Translate:
In Egypt, access to pornographic sites remains free, with the exception of pedophile content. All attempts to prohibit free consultation, especially under the presidency of the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, have failed. "Egypt is the biggest consumer of pornographic films in the Arab world, with independent and committed journalism sites like Mada Masr blocked, but not pornographic sites. "Said Adel Iskandar, a professor of communication, a specialist in Egypt at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
According to Alexa data, which analyzes web traffic and provides statistics globally, four of the largest X-ray streaming platforms are among the fifty most visited websites in Egypt. Egypt is far from being an exception. This ranking is true for France, the United States and India, but also for Arab countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco. "The Saudis are also big consumers of pornographic films, but it is difficult to verify the ranking because they use encryption techniques, to access sites and to foil censorship, which blur the statistics," said Adel Iskandar.
"The production of pornographic films is not local, the pornographic industry is foreign and yet the consumers of films X in the Arab countries like the "Arab" sex. Lovers of pornographic films like women who are close to them culturally. They want what they are, but they can not have access to it freely. Arab, Egyptian, Muslim women, veiled. But in these films produced by industry, women are rarely Arab. This explains the short-lived success of Mia Khalifa, who was "really" Arab. Her tattoos in Arabic, her brown skin, her dark eyes, her Lebanese origin made her a celebrity in the Arab world, the first star of Arab porn, arousing curiosity, fascination, rejection and condemnation. In Lebanon, I even came across a graffiti that expressed the wish, not without irony, that she was president. A message that expressed above all the rejection of political elites by Lebanese activists."
