Homemade Sex Tapes = Death Penalty
It isn’t safe for an honest pornographer in Iran these days:
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 - A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday.
The unnamed man was lashed 100 times in public, the daily Etemaad Melli wrote.
He had been found guilty of filming his sexual relations with married women, the report said.
Thousands of young people are flogged in Iran each year on trivial charges that include drinking alcohol, attending mixed-sex parties, and sexual misconduct. Iran’s Judiciary views flogging as the appropriate punishment for combating moral crimes, particularly among the youth. Islamic judges insist on carrying out the punishment in town squares, as “a lesson for all to see.”
“Iran man flogged in public for making home-made porn film,” Iran Focus
Oh, it gets worse. Iran’s amateur porn stars have particularly short-lived careers.
TEHRAN, Iran — An amateur porn movie could net 31 people the death penalty in Iran’s capital city. The group faces death for filming and producing an adult movie that was shot using a cellphone, said Saiid Mortazavi, the president of Tehran’s criminal court.
The group of 31 people also has been charged with sexual assault on the actress in the movie.
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Iran has a track record of executing amateur adult makers. A man who made adult movies with his wife was publicly hanged in late-2005 and a female porn star was stoned to death after spending eight years in prison for performing in an adult film.
Keep it safe and legal, folks. And remember - it wasn’t always this way.
“When I sit in the alehouse, I am a woman, and I am an exuberant young man. When I am present at a place of quarrelling, I am a woman, a perfect figure. When I sit by the gate of the tavern, I am a prostitute familiar with the penis; the friend of a man, the girlfriend of a woman.” - from a hymn to Inanna (translated)