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Inside Nigeria's adult film industry: Porn star tells Business Insider SSA actresses can earn between $3,000 to $10,000 monthly

Edet Mareme, an adult entertainer, during an interview session at the Pulse Nigeria HQ in Lagos
  • Nigeria’s adult film industry is using the internet to gain a foothold in a space dominated by the west
  • Edet Mareme, an adult film actress, tells Business Insider SSA Nigerian porn stars can earn between $3,000 to $10,000 monthly
  • The business model revolves around a one-off pay-for-download and monthly subscription service

Is Nigeria as conservative as she appears? The demand for x-rated content online and the nation's growing adult film industry suggests this may not be the case.

In the United States, the porn industry is estimated to generate up to $10 billion, according to the National Research Council Report, 2002. There is no official record for Nigeria.

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Edet Mareme, an adult entertainer, tells Business Insider SSA that porn stars can make up to between $3,000 to $10,000 a month, depending on the role.

“In a month, porn star can make from $3,000 to $10,000 and more. “Girls are paid more than their male counterparts in the industry," Mareme says.

Against societal narratives, Mareme said working in the industry doesn't stop a woman from having a happy life and home. “A woman can decide to go into porn acting and stop after a while and go and marry. Nobody can stop you.

Nigerian societal settings stigmatise porn actors and women are castigated from society for engaging in porn or its related industries.

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Changing the narrative about the porn industry

Mareme said people are mistaking the porn industry for commercial sex or prostitution, claiming they are quite different.

“People mistake me for a sex worker, I am a porn actress. Because you watched my video from an x-rated website doesn't mean I have sex with everybody I meet,” she explains.

She added that in the porn industry, so many protocols are followed before an actor or actress can participate, including conducting tests.

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How the porn industry makes money

The Nigerian porn actress said videos are posted on x-rated websites to generate views and per-click revenue. She said videos are also sold to other x-rated websites. All these complement the amount paid for acting in a porn scene.

She called for a professional porn industry in Nigeria that would be able to compete with the international market for views.

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