Reality of Same-Sex Act in Africa: Pornhub Pride Insights

In Africa, where around 30 countries criminalise homosexuality, the “Asian” category emerged as the most popular in the continent, despite the country’s strict laws prohibiting same-sex relations.

While the report does not provide specific reasons for this trend, it shows viewers’ diverse and sometimes unexpected tastes worldwide.

South Africa is the only African nation to have legalised gay marriage in 2006, while several others impose harsh penalties, including the death penalty in countries like Mauritania, Somalia and Sudan, for same-sex relations.

Around 30 African countries currently ban homosexuality, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), with some punishing same-sex relations extremely harshly.

In The Gambia, Kenya and Tanzania, LGBTQ people face maximum jail terms ranging from 14 years to life imprisonment.

The insights come amid a backdrop of growing anti-gay sentiment in some African countries, with Burundi’s president Evariste Ndayishimiye, recently calling for public stoning of same-sex couples. Homosexuality in Burundi, a conservative Christian country in East Africa, has been criminalised since 2009, with prison terms of up to two years for consensual same-sex acts.

While Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejected a bid to scrap a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world, it imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual same-sex relations and contains provisions that make “aggravated homosexuality” an offence punishable by death.

Ghana’s parliament voted to pass a controversial bill to severely restrict LGBTQ rights, a move condemned by activists. The bill still has to be validated by President Akufo-Addo before becoming law.

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City authorities in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have announced a crackdown on same-sex activity in hotels and bars and called on people to report such “abominable” acts to the police.

The Addis Ababa Peace and Security Administration Bureau said it was taking measures “against hotels, restaurants, guest houses and other entertainment venues suspected of involvement in homosexual acts.”

In a statement posted on Facebook, it said that it had already raided a guest house in Addis Ababa following a tipoff and that its manager had been arrested.