Mediaboss Marketing

By Kenneth Agutamba

Moralists and social activists are calling for measures to protect millions of juveniles on the internet following reports of increased homemade pornography, with the actors using social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp as marketing tools.

Across the region, there's increased appetite for nudity among social media users which has given rise to a new lucrative industry of homemade pornography.

The locally produced sex tapes especially in Kampala, Uganda are being marketed through Facebook and their content supplied through WhatsApp, a popular Smartphone application with payments made through mobile money.

Lucrative industry:

Porn agents are permanently on the lookout for popular posts made especially by celebrities whose activities attract a huge number of comments.

In the comments' thread, the agents post their own sexually enticing notices about locally made sex tapes. These notices feature nude pictures of mostly attractive young women and provide mobile phone numbers to be contacted by those interested in the tapes.

For slightly over sh10,000 (about Rwf2,500), one receives several short sex clips featuring greasy sexual content with tips from a sex expert on how to muster some of the skills in the video.

Recently, a journalist with a Ugandan based TV station interviewed one of the people behind the industry who claimed the videos are aimed at improving people's sex skills but not to erode morals. She added that they advise their clients to keep the videos out of reach of minors.

In Rwanda, the practice takes a new twist. There are several websites including Kigali Hits and Rwanda Paparazzi.net that have become popular among Kigali netizens for posting nude pictures of young attractive women.

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Rwanda: Morality Faces Test As Social Media Pornography Spreads