Porn star has sex with 20 MEN as six Brits watch on for shocking BBC documentary Porn Laid Bare
When a group of young Brits travel into the dark underbelly of Spain's sex industry they are shocked to discover the drugs, violence and trafficking within
A COUPLE writhe naked on the sand while the waves break gently behind them.
A jogger runs past and he does not bat an eyelid at the sex scene playing out yards away.
The “lovers” are in fact porn stars, and they are filming on a beach in Spain — fast becoming the adult movie capital of the world.
While passers-by in the UK would be shocked, producer Thierry Kemaco — renowned in the industry for his outdoor films — explains: “In Spain, the people watch and when you finish, they applaud.”
This liberal attitude may be less surprising to a younger generation brought up on a sex-rich diet of TV’s Love Island and online porn.
But there is still plenty to shock six young Brits who travelled to Spain to explore the booming sex industry for BBC3 documentary Porn Laid Bare.
Their journey takes them into the dark underbelly of the scene, where they hear tales of human trafficking, forced drug taking and violence.
They are also on set to witness the nerves of a young Russian girl when she realises she is expected to have sex with 20 men.
The Brit group, who were chosen for their varying attitudes towards porn, include freelance journalist Neelam Tailor, 24, porn star super fan Ryan Scarborough, 28, student Anna Adams, 23, and the youngest of the group Cameron Dale, 21.
Not one of them comes away unchanged by what they witness.
Neelam tells The Sun: “None of us had ever been on a porn set before and they really dropped us in at the deep end.
“We’d just met these people and then we were watching them have sex on the beach. It was a massive shock.”
Shortly after, Neelam, from Salford, Gtr Manchester, finds herself acting as an assistant on a shoot in a Barcelona studio, helping to pour water on adult actress Julia de Lucia.
The film is directed by Rob Diesel, who also stars in it. He says he went to Spain from his native Sweden because “they’re more liberal here”.
The website he is making the film for had 7.6billion visits last year and turned over £6.9million.
Rob says: “It’s a multi-billion-pound industry in Spain.
“They respect you as an artist. It’s a job here, it’s not like, ‘Look at the freaky guy there who’s doing porn’.
“There’s so many myths in porn still. You don’t have to do anything you’re not comfortable with and the artists I work with all have contracts.”
But the Brits are left horrified when they later watch footage of Rob pulling a woman along by her hair in what is known as a “public disgrace” video.
Neelam says: “I felt like I’d been lied to. He’d talked so much about respect and choice and then we saw him doing the other side.
“When we confronted him, his argument was that people are into it.
“But I completely disagree with him and he has to think about the message he’s putting out into the world. For me, it’s always about the bigger picture.”
Neelam was just 12 when she first watched porn and says she would then view it “most days”.
She stopped aged 16 after noticing she struggled to become aroused when having sex.
Neelam, who is in a long-term relationship, says: “I realised this is the effect it can have so I stopped watching porn because real intimacy is so much more important to me.”
As part of their three-week journey, the group meet former porn addict Jesús Gomis. Like Neelam, he began watching porn aged 12.
He recalls: “I was so addicted and my brain was so into it, I couldn’t satisfy myself even with hard porn.
“It’s like a drug. You feel you want to just keep watching.”
As a member of NoFap — an online community for those that wish to avoid porn — Jesús now helps others to overcome their addiction.
He says: “It’s worse now because teenagers have mobile phones. I’ve heard of children aged eight watching porn.”
For self-confessed porn mega fan Ryan, meeting Jesús is the beginning of a wake-up call.
He says: “I’m at the stage at the moment where I rely on porn a lot. Instead of going out and meeting girls, porn is just easy.
“I’ve realised, right now, that I’ve got an addiction.”
Ryan is keen to get advice from Jesús, who recommends a detox, including from porn stars he follows on social media.
He explains: “For example, you can actually unfollow every girl you follow.”
Ryan jokes: “It would take me all day if I did that.”
This is one of the few lighter moments in the documentary as the six find themselves delving deeper into the darker side of the industry.
In Barcelona, they meet Ismael López Fauste, a porn magazine journalist turned police informant.
He decided to leave the industry after witnessing “human trafficking, drugs, lots of violence and a lot of prostitution”.
Ismael tells them: “The point where I got out was when some of the girls overdosed on the set because they gave them drugs. I thought, ‘OK, I am a part of this’. This is just one of the stories.”
After writing a book exposing how some women are exploited, he says more came forward to tell their story.
But he adds: “Then the threats began because they wanted me to stop writing. They wanted me to delete everything.”
Asked who threatened him, Ismael replies: “The producers.”
He adds: “I want you to hear someone who was inside the industry. She was going to be with you but in the last few days she got threatened.”
The woman agrees to speak to the group over the phone. A former porn actress, she says: “In some scenes I was made to take drugs and if I didn’t I would be sent home without the money.”
She adds that she tried to report it to the police “but they aren’t bothered” and that she has failed to get the videos deleted.
The new capital of the adult scene
IN 1977, two years after the end of Franco’s dictatorship, Spain abolished censorship and began to allow soft porn in films.
Such was the appetite, group tours of adult cinemas were organised.
The end of censorship also led to a publishing boom for soft porn magazines, paving the way for today’s more hardcore scene.
And while Spain is a largely Catholic country, the people today are renowned for their liberal attitude towards sex.
It is said to be almost impossible to watch TV past 10pm there without seeing boobs.
The emotional interview leaves student Anna, from London, in tears.
She says: “It’s just really quite hard to know that it’s going on.”
A visit to a Madrid studio, run by director Torbe, the so-called king of Spanish porn, also leaves her shaken.
He tells them: “I find girls who don’t know anything about anything.
“Ninety-five per cent of the girls who come here are new, so I teach them, especially young girls.”
When the TV pals visit he is a filming a group sex session involving one woman and several men.
The star is a 19-year-old Russian girl who, the group are told, will earn just over £2,500.
She is wearing a red eye mask and her hair is in pigtails.
Her appearance is enough to prompt Anna to demand Torbe — under investigation for allegedly distributing child pornography — to show them proof of the girl’s age.
After seeing a copy of the her ID, Anna is satisfied but remarks: “She’s just turned 19.”
Filming is further delayed because the young actress — who reveals she has only been in the job a week — is so nervous.
As the 20 men, who wear masks to hide their identities, wait around on set, the Brits discover that the Russian girl had been expecting half that number.
When Anna, who stopped watching porn because she felt it did not fit with her feminist views, confronts Torbe, he says it is because they are shooting “two scenes” today.
When filming does finally start, Anna leaves the set in tears.
Speaking outside, she says: “I’m really concerned for her safety. I feel scared for us to leave because I don’t know what’s going to happen when we are not there.”
In the studio, Ryan has to comfort a tearful Cameron, who says: “It is the worst thing I’ve seen.”
Ryan adds: “It just doesn’t look fun. After a week, how do you know how comfortable you feel sleeping with this amount of men? It’s not the environment for a 19-year-old.”
Having boasted at the beginning of the documentary that he has met “at least 300 porn stars”, it is a huge turnaround for Ryan.
Student Cameron, from Tameside, Manchester, says: “For me it was definitely an emotional roller-coaster and I didn’t expect that going into it.
“Before filming I didn’t really have any strong feelings on the subject, but at some points I felt really negative towards porn.
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“It’s given me a lot to think about.”
And he admits he has yet to watch any porn since, saying: “I suppose it’s the same for people who work in McDonald’s.
“When they spend all day around it, the last thing they probably want to do is eat one.”
- Porn Laid Bare is available on BBC Three from Thursday
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