The Israeli Porn Industry Attempts to Find Itself

On that last point, the comments section for “israeli soldiers having an orgy in tha base” gets right to the heart of the matter. Shortly after the video was posted back in 2011, the first person to comment wrote, “Fuck israel!” Another shot back, “Fuck all the arab terrorists!” Things deteriorated from there. And while the IDF uniforms may have drawn more ire than some other videos, most “Israeli” and “Arab” tagged porn videos I’ve found online have comments sections that read pretty similar.

Still, the law — even in its diluted form — has taken a toll. xHamster reports that Israeli traffic to its site has dropped a full 30 percent since the legislation went into effect last fall. And that’s pretty strange. “This is a marked difference between what we’ve seen in the U.K., where ISP [porn] bans initially led to an uptick in users,” says Mike Stabile, a company spokesperson.

Not that Yariv is worried. “We believe that Israel is a liberal state, and that the [censorship] law won’t be implemented,” he says.

Still, nobody else is vying for his position at the top of the porn pile.

This wasn’t always the case, though. In the early 2000s, pornographers in Israel began to take advantage of porn’s legal status there and to cash in on the promise of online distribution. “Israel made a ‘liberal jump’ at the beginning of 2000,” says Haaretz’s Auerbach. “In those years, hand-in-hand with digital evolution, the local porn industry started flourish.” Producers like Moti Avrahim, D69, Sex Style and Parpar popped up and started doing a brisk trade, Auerbach explains. Much of the material they made still can be found on free porn sites if you search for “Israeli” — their company logos, often written in Hebrew, in the corners of the videos and many of the performers in Israeli military uniforms. (“Israeli soldiers having an orgy in tha base” was likely made by one of these companies, though it’s unclear which one.)

But this budding domestic adult film industry soon collapsed under the weight of free tube sites, where users could post pirated or amateur porn from anywhere in the world. Today, says Auerbach, “the Israeli porn industry is rather small, and is mainly produced by the LGBT community. Straight porn is rarely made anymore in Israel.”

Similarly, there’s a small feminist porn movement in the country, but its products are even harder to find, released via film festival only. “The motive is very political,” explains Auerbach.

A lack of competition obviously is an advantage, too. It’s unlikely that anything akin to “israeli soldiers having an orgy in tha base” will be produced again anytime soon, the last vestige of the short-lived domestic Israeli porn business. Because even the taboo of IDF group sex can’t trump the vast promise of free porn — and the conflation of “Israel” and “Arab” tags it’s organized around.

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