‘No such thing as a strong women’ in exploitive migrant porn

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The global migrant crisis has triggered a tidal wave of twisted refugee porn with searches for “Muslim women” and “refugees” spiking on smut sites.

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According to the Daily Mail, the phenomenon emerged when then-German chancellor Angela Merkel opened the floodgates to refugees.

The newspaper reported that sex films featuring refugee women or porn stars depict them being humiliated and often violently dominated by male performers.

Experts said that former porn star Mia Khalifa’s controversial threesome in a hijab helped fuel the troubling genre. Khalifa then became the most searched adult actress in the world.

“The common themes we see in this genre is migrant women needing money and work in exchange for sex,” sex scientist and cultural anthropologist Jakob Pastotter told the Mail.

“This is down to a power issue, that’s what viewers are attracted to. In migrant porn, there is no such thing as a strong woman, they just whimper like little cats.

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“And most western men are used to powerful women in reality, but the migrant theme gives them the ability to feel powerful, it gives them a sense of superiority.”

Recent plots and characters in the porn videos underscore the troubling themes and hiking the perversity level. Muslim and refugee women are exoticized and shown to be submissive.

Pastotter said that is fuelling a fetishistic desire among men to seduce, conquer and dominate a powerless foreign woman struggling with a new language, new culture and new reality.

The “specialist” video producers were quickly established in Germany with their sole output being refugee and hijab porn. Most of the videos show a subjugated female star, typically Middle Eastern or made up to look that way, being dominated by a white man.

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Even when the starlet doffs all of her other duds the hijab is still worn. Some also are recorded in Arabic to push the filmmaker’s perverted point.

“There was already an audience for exotic women in porn, and when Merkel opened the borders and caused the migrant crisis of 2015, this just boosted it,” Pastotter said.

According to the Mail, Google Trends data from 2015 to 2024 revealed that the search term “refugee porn” has peaked 18 times.

Studies have revealed that many female refugees are sex-trafficked, raped and forced into slavery. These themes turn up in the vile videos or are recorded by the victims’ tormentors to be repackaged as porn.

“It’s all about the power imbalance,” Pastotter said.

“Men don’t want to watch something tender and sensual, they want aggression and violence and migrants carry the idea that women are already here and are just free as objects to use.

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“Mia Khalifa was groundbreaking when it comes to the success of migrant porn. She was exotic and different, and when she wore the hijab she was breaking a taboo.”

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According to Pastotter, the hijab is a symbol in the “western mind” that represents “inferiority.” That shocking power imbalance in the migrant porn genre is what attracts its fans.

“Porn is not about attraction, it is about disgust and that’s why migrant porn is so wildly popular,” he said.

“It shows aggression, violence, inferiority of others, superiority of your own and it breaks taboos.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

X: @HunterTOSun

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