AN ignorant OnlyFans content creator travelled to Afghanistan last week to secure some controversial clicks on social media.
But porn star Whitney Wright risked barbaric Taliban punishment – which could have included a public whipping or lengthy prison sentence – in the process.
The 33-year-old has been working as a porn actress since 2016 and as a porn director since 2019.
She visited Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, among other areas, and shared a series of selfies, pictures of architecture and city skylines.
The Taliban has maintained control over the country since it took over in August 2021 with an oppressive regime – which severely restricts women’s rights, including bans on education, employment and freedom of movement.
The ongoing human rights violations, along with the threat of violence from militant groups and internal conflict, make the country particularly dangerous for women and foreign nationals to travel to.
Afghanistan also has very strict laws regarding adult content and internet usage.
X-rated star Whitney, who is from Oklahoma in the US, ignored her government’s official advice regarding travel to the country.
The US Department of State warns its citizens: “Do not travel to Afghanistan due to civil unrest, crime, terrorism, risk of wrongful detention, kidnapping and limited health facilities.
If her pornographic career had been found out, Whitney’s safety could have been compromised while on her travels.
That’s because, in Afghanistan, the legal consequences for being involved with adult content (such as OnlyFans material) can be severe, given the country’s strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Pornography is classed as a “moral crime” in the eyes of the Taliban, and is considered as ‘bad’ as adultery, robbery, prostitution and gay sex.
Women accused of such crimes have been flogged in front of thousands of onlookers in recent years.
Flogging, also known as whipping, is a barbaric punishment including beating a person’s body with whips, rods or other implements.
During its rule from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban was condemned for regularly carrying out such savage punishments in public, which included floggings and executions at the national stadium in Kabul, where Whitney visited.
When the Islamic group took control again in 2021, bosses said they would not repeat the brutal repression of women.
Why was TikTok banned in Afghanistan?
A spokesman for the militant rulers of Afghanistan insisted the popular platform’s “filthy content was not consistent with Islamic laws”.
It is “misleading the younger generation”, Inamullah Samangani added on X (formerly Twitter).
The Taliban also decided to block the popular South Korean PUBG battlegrounds game and bar Afghan telly channels from airing “immoral” content.
Samangani said at the time: “We’ve received a lot of complaints about how the TikTok app and PUBG game are wasting people’s time.
“The ministry of communications and information technology was ordered to remove the apps from internet servers and make them inaccessible to everyone in Afghanistan.”
However, women’s freedoms have once again been severely curbed and a number of women have been beaten for demanding rights over the last four years.
Porn star Whitney has been slammed for promoting tourism to the country on her social media channels.
Following her selection of pictures posted to Instagram, people expressed their outrage in the comments.
One critic wrote: “It just makes me so frustrated seeing you spend your money on tourism in these oppressed countries where women are hardly allowed to breathe outside their homes because that is considered to be ’too sensual’.
It just makes me so frustrated seeing you spend your money on tourism in these oppressed countries where women are hardly allowed to breathe outside their homes
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“Why would you EVER want to promote and give money to these governments? You are giving a huge misleading picture of what countries like Afghanistan and Iran really are like for the WOMEN who live there.”
Another slammed: “How could you go there and promote it knowing what happens to women there?”
A third warned: “It’s not safe for a woman with an occupation like yours.”
Whitney even claims that a local man tried to set her up with his son.
She wrote on Instagram: “A nice older man in Herat tried to set me up with his son who lives in Germany when he found out I was single.
“But when he called him, his son asked if I spoke any German. I do not – so it was not a match.”
This is not the first time Whitney has travelled to a controversial country and shared it online.
In February last year, she visited Iran, where women are facing similar struggles of oppression and violence.
Iranian actress Setareh Pesyani condemned the government for allowing Whitney into the country on the basis of pornography being illegal there. She claimed that the visit could have even put Whitney at risk for the death penalty.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denied having known of her involvement in pornography at the time that her travel visa was issued.
