Double standards, exploitative contracts and a ruined life
Fairly produced porn films are few and far between, but the story of porn star Mia Khalifa clearly shows how important it is to also give performers the respect they deserve – and to pay them fairly. In addition, they should be shown more to their advantage as a person, since they show everything optical about themselves in their numerous films – sometimes with far-reaching consequences.
Porn star Mia Khalifa: Strict values meet sexual freedom
Porn star Mia Khalifa was born in Lebanon in 1993 to Catholic parents. In a system that is very prudish, entrenched and conservative. When they emigrate to the USA, the new country seems pure freedom. Freedom for a young person like Mia to discover herself and life. The porn industry quickly became aware of the Arab beauty and Mia Khalifa became a porn starlet. Unaware of what this will mean for her later life.
Porn star Mia Khalifa, who actually studied history in Texas, hides her film career from her parents. Knowing full well that they would be anything but enthusiastic about it. But what looked like the chance with the Bang Bros production company soon turns into an absolute fiasco.
Successful for years – but at what price?
For years, the dark-haired beauty has dominated the rankings on all the major platforms, such as Pornhub and Co. And that’s despite the fact that porn star Mia Khalifa has only been shooting for about three months and only about a dozen movies, she is the unbeaten number one – since 2015.
That’s how old your clips are now, and even after more than seven years, she hasn’t lost any of her fame or the popularity of your films. If any other porn star would be happy to attend numerous events and the like, Mia Khalifa’s situation is unfortunately completely different.
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She broke with the profession, with an industry that saw her as a commodity and still does. Unlike the actress, her former producers still make good money from her – she was fobbed off with an actor’s salary, as is common in the industry. This is in no way proportionate to what she has sacrificed for your “career” as porn star Mia Khalifa.
Everything changed abruptly, because of a headgear
December 2014 changes everything in her life. Overnight she becomes the most famous porn star on the biggest porn platform par excellence – Pornhub. But not because Mia Khalifa is lolling particularly well here or because she was spotted with a celebrity, but rather because she violated an absolute “no-go”: she wore a hijab in one of her clips.
Although, according to her own statements, she rejected it before the production and expressed reservations, she did not dare to assert herself more and categorically refuse to wear the headscarf. Mia Khalifa felt compelled to follow the script and, despite all reservations, shot this little film.
Bigoted thinking among viewers, family and society
The porn producers probably knew they were going to set something off here. Religiosity and wild, uninhibited sex are not only at odds with each other, both are also defended by the followers with a lot of emotion. Her family took notice because of the response to her daughter’s side job – which paid about $12,000 for all the films – and clearly distanced themselves from her daughter. Even though neither porn star Mia Khalifa nor any of her family members were Muslim, they took it as a general affront. A violation of their conservative worldview, of every value they had tried to instill in their daughter, and probably shame that anyone could see their own daughter this way.
For Mia Khalifa, her entire life up to that point was shattered. A life that led not only her as a porn star, but especially her private structure. Having previously hidden her passion from her family and friends, the click numbers for that very clip skyrocketed within a few days – everyone saw this film, but no one wanted to have seen it. This is exactly the kind of thinking that made porn star Mia Khalifa particularly concerned: on the one hand, there were viewers who got excited about her films, especially the clip with the hijab, and on the other hand, it was primarily those who criticized her for it. A bigoted thinking between one’s own horniness and a moral thinking that one can only apparently fulfill oneself.
Religion, death threats, slander and horniness
Porn clips are horny! And hardly anyone has not seen one in his life. As a viewer, you often look for exactly those films that you particularly like. Here, religious themes also come to the fore time and again. Sex as a nun and priest, sex in the confessional and the like. All this no longer resolves outcries. Have you gotten used to this yet? Presumably this is the case. It has long been no longer a problem, or maybe it never was, when porn stars wear necklaces with crosses or tattoos with religious motifs while moaning, blowing and getting something stuck in all their holes.
But what was the problem with porn star Mia Khalifa? On the one hand, she fits perfectly into the image of a Muslim woman with her Arab appearance, although she herself is a Catholic, and on the other hand, such clips did not yet exist because no one had dared to take on this métier. Until Bang Bros found their perfect protagonist: Mia Khalifa. Almost nothing better could happen to the production company than this outcry that went through the porn industry and reached the wider society. Everyone wanted to see this said clip, the click numbers clearly reflect that.
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Not only because every single person wanted to know what to get excited about, but also to indulge their own horniness. A horniness that one sees as “normal” all too quickly in oneself as a viewer, but completely denies to the porn actors. The male actor, who had sex with porn star Mia Khalifa and another actress – also dressed in hijab – in the clip, was not doomed by this film. This reflects an extremely skewed thinking: on the one hand, horniness is something that only individuals are allowed to do and when men break taboos, this is far less bad than when women do so. Crazy world, also or especially in the porn business.
Life broke and porn star Mia Khalifa almost with him
Mia Khalifa has not only been the target of hostility on social media, but has also been the subject of savage abuse and hostility on the streets. In addition, her private address was located and clear death threats were made. Even the IS stepped in – to attack an image of women in the featured clip that would probably be fun for them, too.
According to their faith, Muslims are rewarded with 72 virgins in the afterlife. Presumably, then, these ladies are not meant to play cards. Without criticizing the Muslim faith in its foundations – this is also bigoted thinking and a misconception, moreover, that Islamic men do not like to have sex and do not satisfy themselves sometimes while watching a relevant movie.
Life back in control – a life after the erotic star
Porn star Mia Khalifa broke with the industry as a star. What remained, however, is the demand for fairly produced clips and films in the future, in which the actors and actresses are also protected by production companies. Porn star Mia Khalifa stood alone when the world around her broke, she wants to spare future colleagues that and fights not only for fair contracts, but also for better working conditions. Some production companies and directors are leading the way with paid clips for better porn.
Unfortunately, this system has yet to catch on, as customers are used to clicking through countless clips, especially free ones. That has to change. And unfortunately, the industry still thrives on countless performers, impossible contracts and lousy conditions, sometimes painful practices and earnings that do not lie with the protagonists.
However, big changes take time. The former porn star Mia Khalifa knows that too.
She now takes it with a certain amount of humor and has her life back on track – as a sports presenter. In the United States, she is now firmly established and lives a “respectable” life. She has nothing to be ashamed of for her life as a porn star, even though she knows she will always carry the past with her. An episode in her life that taught her one thing: the world lives much more on appearances than on being, and rise and fall are very close to each other.
Porn clips are meant to be fun, to provide satisfaction and to fulfill desires that “real” life may sometimes not be able to fulfill. Lives should not be destroyed by these clips. But Mia Khalifa is not alone. The only difference, she fought her way out of the big fiasco and is now stronger than ever. She did not break, unlike other female colleagues.
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