Yasmeena Ali: Afghanistan's only porn star reveals why she wears hijab in sex videos
Despite death threats, Yasmeena Ali, known as ‘Afghanistan's lone porn star’, claims she wears a headscarf while filming pornographic films like Mia Khalifa did in the past as she wants to 'make a statement'.
After fleeing an arranged marriage in 2016, Yasmeena became a porn star. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the 1990s, Yasmeena came to the United Kingdom at the age of nine. She was raised as a Muslim, but at the age of 19, her family pressured her into an arranged marriage. She was studying biomedical science at the time, and instead of marrying, she left her family and Islam behind. She hasn't talked to her family since, and she's faced hostility online after performing in adult videos while wearing the hijab.
Yasmeena currently wears the hijab while shooting graphic adult videos, after abandoning Islam to become an atheist as a teenager. The 28-year-old said in the podcast “I Hate Porn”, "I'm absolutely fine with wearing that for porn. It makes a statement because seeing a woman have sex while wearing a headscarf breaks a taboo. It is something you are not supposed to do and it creates a dialogue and I’m all for this. You saw in the 80s and 90s when there was a lot of porn with nuns in it and it creates a conversation and that’s what I’m doing."
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She added, “I get a lot of hate from Afghan men. A lot of people would be affected by it but I’m not. The messages are like ‘How dare you to shame Islam and Afghanistan you wh**e’ and ‘I hope you die’ and they say I’m selling my body like a dog. They say the craziest stuff and there are so many messages I can’t deal with them all. Sometimes I just write back saying ‘I love you too’ and they hate that. I find it very entertaining. They don’t like it because they expect me to say I’m scared but I have nothing to be afraid of. I’ve always been a fighter and I don’t take from bull**** from anyone.”
One troll even paid $9.99 a month to subscribe to her OnlyFans page. She claimed, "He signed up to preach to me on OnlyFans saying what I am doing is not right and he hopes I don't take it the wrong way. I am like why to sign up to come and preach, maybe go pray instead. He enjoyed the content and he is a hypocrite. It is bizarre and I feel sorry for them."
“I saw people being beaten up for not being religious and not dressing appropriately in religious attire. I’m not just talking about violence against women, it was violence against young men for not having a beard like you are meant to in Islam,” she added. Yasmeena also talked about how her first orgasm sparked her sexual enlightenment, which led to a career in pornography, and added that she's proud of how far she's come from being a scared little girl in Afghanistan who was denied an education.