Pascual, not his real name, gym trainer and porn star, at the Puente de Toledo in Madrid.Andrea Comas /
One day in July 2020, at six in the afternoon, a queue of men begins to form in front of a portal on Gran Vía (Madrid).
Some greet each other when they see each other, others arrive and look down to go unnoticed.
One of the latter is Antonio, a successful professional.
Antonio is married and has a daughter.
In front of him, a boy in his 20s, with tattooed arms, complains that "the show" will start late because there are more people than the previous week.
When the queue begins to move, they queue up on narrow stairs that lead to some offices, and there they show their ID to show that they are of legal age and are on the list.
They are about 50. Of all ages and of all social classes.
As they enter the apartment, they take off their masks, their clothes, and take out masks, ski masks, sunglasses or capes from their backpacks, the ones who take something out;
others go bare-faced.
The 50s strip where they can (corridors, rooms, a bathroom), and enter a huge living room.
For days, on the website they are regulars, a bukkake (group sex that consists of a group of men ejaculating on a woman or a man) has been advertised.
The last thing that Diana, 19 years old, saw before getting on the old and narrow elevator of the portal of that floor of Gran Vía, was the huge poster of the musical
El Rey León
.
Diana arrived there months ago pushed by her boyfriend - a charming, athletic boy with a stable job (an official of the Community of Madrid) - to find a job.
What was found was what many girls in their situation (unstructured family, precariousness, despair): an offer to work as a porn actress.
In his case, under threat of harm to his mother if he did not follow the wishes of the famous "adult film entrepreneur", as the man with whom he made the first scene presented himself.
"He told me: 'If you behave well, we will only promote the video that we just recorded abroad; if you get silly, we will upload it to the internet and tomorrow all of Spain will see it," said Diana in her complaint. She spent six months on the floor practicing sex with men and with her roommates under the direction of the producer (La Rata, he calls him). On one occasion, she was the
star
of a bukkake: the one in charge of drinking all the semen of the participants in a balloon glass. , simple participant.
Diana and Antonio are two of the people who have agreed to speak with the film director Mabel Lozano and the police inspector Pablo J. Conellie, an expert in trafficking and cybercrime.
The two sign a documentary work entitled
Pornoxplitación
(Alrevés, 2020) in which, through testimonies, they approach the consumption of pornography from different angles (two porn actors - one heterosexual and the other gay -, a sex addict in treatment, two trafficked girls, a minor blackmailed by some photos ...).
"There is an offer for all types of demand, and to have that type of demand there are many people filming without a contract, without analytics and, in some cases, violated to do so", explains Lozano.
“And that is the content and the learning that millions of children around the world have when they first access porn: that the sex is more and more aggressive, more and more extreme.
Because, like drugs, consumption demands more and more extreme things.
Many girls believe that this is the right thing to do, whether you like it or not, because it is the way to satisfy a boy.
We leave sex education in the hands of pornography portals ”.
A study published in September by Save the Children (1,753 girls and boys between the ages of 13 and 17) reveals that 54.1% of adolescents, mostly boys, believe that pornography gives ideas for their own sexual experiences .
47.4% of adolescents who have seen pornographic content have taken a scene into practice.
12.2% of the boys have done it without the explicit consent of the partner and without their partner agreeing to it, compared to 6.3% of the girls.
For 30% of adolescents, pornography is the only resource for learning about sexuality and almost half of the people surveyed miss having more information on affective-sexual issues.
According to Catalina Perazzo, one of those responsible for the NGO, "the danger is not that they see pornography, but that their sexual desire is being built on unreal, violent and unequal foundations typical of fiction."
Mabel Lozano came to this job, together with Inspector Coneille, after investigating trafficking in women in the book and documentary
Pimp
, her previous work;
She learned, in this way, that many of the girls who were tricked into prostituting themselves were also tricked into shooting porn scenes, that there were minors who were convinced to take a picture and were immediately blackmailed by demanding more photos and videos, that there were addicts to that porn, with the same potency as drugs and gambling, destroyed their lives, and that there was such a great demand that much of the pornographic business was built with black money.
“Congratulations, you have been chosen to work with one of the best erotic video producers in the world.
In each video we shoot there are four or five scenes with groups of people who meet and end up in a sexual situation […] As you have been selected by photos or video, you must be in the same condition as you were when they were taken.
If there is any radical change in your appearance (weight gain, muscle loss, skin problems) we may send you back without payment.
You will have to go to bed and get up early.
Night outings are not allowed during filming days.
Nor will it be allowed to have any sexual relationship during the days of filming.
60 days before a shoot, avoid painting or shaving your hair, waxing the body (except the face), removing the eyebrows, getting any piercing or tattoo.
In addition to a dramatic performance with dialogue, below we present a detailed list of the acts that you must also perform: kissing on the mouth, touching the body of another man or men, sucking penises, licking ass (after having been previously washed), penetrating or allow yourself to be penetrated, cummed (ejaculate) once daily.
Point number 5 is optional: you can be penetrated or penetrated, it is the same.
But it is important what role you prefer before filming […] You will receive 1,000 euros for the work on the video ”.
The offer came to Pascual, an assumed name, 42 years old, who had the ambition to be a porn actor.
“It can seem that everything is in order and that it is a serious job and that the production companies treat the actors in a professional way.
But everything is wet ink ”, he says.
Pascual recorded dozens of porn scenes, some of which were preceded by certain conditions.
But at the time of recording, things always change.
There are drugs, there is a lack of prophylaxis and a lack of analytics.
And unforeseen sexual practices ”.
Sometimes the payment consisted of travel and accommodation, other times it was paid in drugs.
Even on some occasions the actors, hooked, "were worth the fact of getting high during the recording."
"I am HIV positive," he says.
"And my shootings were with other HIV-positive people, but I had to assume it, because even though we had analytics, sometimes they didn't even ask for them."
Pascual lost two friends in recent years, one of them a 20-year-old coworker.
Pascual told him to go home to rest because that night he closed the bar where they worked.
Two days later, he was found at seven in the morning leaning on the doorway with the keys in his hand, dead.
He was a regular at
chemsex
, drug sex sessions that go on for hours or days.
“He always told me that he could control.
The energy with which he gave himself to everything played a trick on him ”, says Pascual.
Another close death was that of Pedro Oliver, a gay porn celebrity under the pseudonym Macanao Torres.
Oliver took advantage of his star position to denounce that there were producers who filmed anal sex without a condom and without teaching the analytics, he criticized the teaching of new generations to fuck without protection and denounced the amount of "mob" that had been placed at the controls of the business.
He was diagnosed with lymphoma, exceeded the life span that the doctors had given him and suffered various ups and downs, until on December 29, 2019, he climbed on the roof of his building and threw himself into the void.
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“In
chemsex, in
the end, the least there is is sex;
It plays porn, music, there are mischief, but above all there is a lot of drugs.
They announce the holidays by applications or messages.
It is a vicious cycle that lasts from Thursday to Tuesday, a marathon of all kinds of drugs.
End your friendships and your work, I know too many cases, ”says Pascual.
Was he addicted?
“No, but I had a boyfriend who was, who knew that I had been a porn actor and treated me as such.
A sexual object 24 hours a day to do with me everything I saw in the scenes.
A manipulator who almost ruined my life. "
Diana, the 19-year-old girl whom her boyfriend sent, without her knowing it, to a porn production company to make scenes, be a
webcamer
and prostitute herself in luxury hotels, ended up being exploited by him in a club in a town in Murcia that ended up being closed down by the Police, those responsible were arrested for crimes related to prostitution, illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
She has been trying for years to have her porn videos removed to no avail: “I have managed to see them, but I am unable to recognize myself,” she tells Lozano.
After overcoming a depression and learning to live with the psychological consequences (and physical: hepatitis B and chronic gastritis due to vomiting after finishing the bukkakes), Diana studies pornography (“who are there because they want to, and who, like me, forced? ”) and to read statements from porn actresses that explain the reality: those who are delighted, earn money and feel empowered;
those who suffer and even, like several international stars, end up dying very young.
Diana awaits trial against the producer who exploited her, her ex-boyfriend and the intermediary who
sold her
.
“I continue to live in fear.
They are evil, powerful, united, and have money and connections.
I am poor and alone ”, she explains in the book.
Pascual is a businessman who releases energy in the gym (he leaves on Saturday, October 31 in the morning to attend EL PAÍS), retired from porn and away from “the years in which I enjoyed, had fun and devoured the moments that life put within my reach;
years in which despite having earned some money shooting scenes, some of them painful and full of brutality, I suffered from various infections and witnessed labor and sexual abuse.
Antonio, for his part, separated from his wife when she discovered one day on the computer the umpteenth relapse: very long talks, of hours, with
webcam
girls
.
She entered a detoxification center run by the Give it a Turn for sex addicts with the help of her parents;
He disengaged himself, returned with his wife and, last July, around six in the afternoon, got in line on Gran Vía to participate in a bukkake with 49 men who were waiting protected by a mask.
"In the hands of people with zero empathy for human life, pornography is a virus," says Carolina, one of the protagonists of
Pornoxploitation,
in the book.
