HEBREW PORN DRAWS RECORD HITS FROM ARAB STATES
(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, AUGUST 22 - Despite the diplomatic ice
reigning between the respective governments, Israeli erotic
sites are reaping enormous success among the Internet surfers of
the Arab countries.
"We notice on our servers that thousands of users live in
Muslim states with which we don't even have diplomatic
relations," Nir Shahar, who manages one of the most visited
Israeli websites with erotic content, told an Israeli
journalist.
Up to 10% of the daily contacts of the porn portals in Hebrew
come from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq. Some owners have
decided to rise the wave of success opening an Arabic version on
the websites and registering in this way an immediate surge of
the 'clicks'.
Others, like Nir Shahar, believe the expense for translation
is needless: "The videos and photos we offer do not need much
explanation," he says. There is a real passion spreading among
the Islamic users: that for the hard Israeli videos in which the
actresses interpret, in their way naturally, the role of female
soldiers, secret agents or policewomen.
One of the most watched films at the moment is 'Codename:
Deep Investigation', a spy story which narrates in parody the
(real) story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli technician who had
given out the nuclear secrets of the Jewish state. 'The
Affair-Vanunu', yet, has another meaning in the video.
The preference shown towards the erotism in the language of
the enemy is susceptible to many interpretations, one of which
is that probably the fact that there are not many erotic sites
in Arabic and that in the strictly Islamic countries they are
even banned. Yet the Arab Internet users show they follow the
erotic deeds of the feigned female soldiers with a special
determination: often they have to manage to go round, through a
complicated computer procedure, the block which in many of their
states usually impedes access to the Hebrew sites.
Neutralised the censorship and solved the issue with the
language, the only obstacle remains the cost of the service. It
is a problem which evidently worries less the users from Saudi
Arabia who remain online, 17 minutes per capita on the average.
The Egyptian porn maniacs are the fastest: 4 minutes in
average. "Porn surely does not bring peace but if nothing else,
in this way we take some money out of the pockets of our
enemies," one of the Israeli webmasters said. As if to say that
online sex also helps impoverish the enemy, and in this way to
win more easily a future war. (ANSAmed).
2007-08-22 19:11