Documentary film maker Tim Samuels investigates the globalization of pornography and its connection to health issues in developing countries.

“In Ghana you see the most extraordinary impact of the mainstream western pornography which is predominantly made in Los Angeles and is predominantly condom free. That pornography somehow makes its way to even the most remote and obscure parts of Ghana in Africa.

There are villages which don’t even have electricity; where people live in mud huts; where generators get wheeled into the village and mud huts get turned into impromptu pornographic cinemas. And those films from Los Angeles get shown and the impact is chilling.

The films, as I said, don’t have condoms. People copy what they see and they say to me they’ve contracted HIV as a direct result of copying the films they’ve seen.

There are also outbreaks of sexual violence after the films are shown where the young men are so excited by what they’ve seen that women in the village, I’m told, have been raped straight after the films have been shown. So an extraordinary consequence of globalization from an industry in Los Angeles having an impact in Africa.”

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