Life and agony of the Spanish porn
(For Paco Gisbert - BBC ) - 25 years ago today, the May 4, 1983, Jesus Franco was "making movies". For this reason and because Franco boasted of having done all his life that he wanted the film "without taking into account the guidelines of the Administration", was not yet aware of the Day officially legalized pornography in Spain. That was the day it came into force on Royal Decree 1067/1983, which regulated the Extraordinary Chambers in film exhibition: The starting gun for the Spanish porn. They have experts in the Jess Franco film he was riding Lilian, the perverted virgin conceived as a movie theater circuits for S-X pre-qualification - but that after the promulgation of the decree, decided to turn the film into inserts porn by other films that, in the version for the international market, containing scenes of explicit sex. Franco denies it: "Lilian was born exactly as it is, never change." With its original design or subsequent amendments, Lilian, the perverted virgin became the first Spanish film porn in the law. 
That film opened the way for a similar type of production of B-cinema whose main champion was Jess Franco himself. "Aesthetic films were seedy, but very funny, in which sex could not even exciting, given the inexperience of the actors, very different from what was later seen in porn, "says the journalist Manuel Valencia, co-author of Exxxpaña. X Spanish film history video done. Franco led between 1983 and 1987, 11 X films, many of them with Lina Romay, his favorite actress and girlfriend, who were seen by 315,000 viewers in theaters X, according to Ministry of Culture. One of them, the slit of Lulu, has the honor of being the Spanish porn tape with better performance at the box office of all time: 88,055 euro 209,139 people were left in the halls, almost a quarter of what they raised all the cinemas X of the country six years ago.
It was in 1988 when the first death occurred Spanish porn. The legal constraints imposed on the performance standard of the rooms, including the obligation to pay a percentage of box office of 33% and the prohibition of promoting films that were shown through posters or photographic images on the outside of the rooms, led to a curious phenomenon: they got the dealers more profitable to buy a foreign film dubbed into Spanish than to launch a national product. That was discouraging directors and producers until that year, disappeared on porn film format. As pointed out by Jesus Franco, the disappearance of porn was logical, "as always happens when the Administration is dedicated to direct your life."
The popularization of home video changed the habits of the Spanish and, consequently, his relationship with film X. After four years of darkness, the Spanish porn revived in 1992 by chance, particularly as a result of a conversation between Antonio Marcos, X film distributor, and José María Ponce, a journalist and magazine editor Sadomaso. Marcos, surprised that not porn films made in Spain, asked Ponce format material home and gave it cuts that found "at home" filmed years ago, "the time when we were shooting short films to sell the magazine." Those cuts, which appeared as the protagonist's girlfriend at the time of Ponce, Maria Bianco, the Ponce edited in film form under the title of the vices of Mary, considered the first film shot on video X in Spain.
If Franco was the first Spanish porn father, Ponce was the one who sowed the seeds of the industry with his work at the front of magazines in the nineties, the address of the first six editions of the International Festival of Erotic Cinema in Barcelona (FICEB) , born in 1992, and conducting thirty films until his retirement six years ago.
The vices of Mary was the embryo for the birth of an industry that since 1992, has had a more or less sustained. To the extent that in 2007, film X in Spain 470 million euros turnover, made 180 films, most of these fragments to be marketed by Internet-and employed 2386 people, including actors, directors and employees of the producing and distributors, according to the FICEB.
An X actress earns about 600 euros per sex scene, which includes, in almost all cases, anal, oral and vaginal sex. The difference in the brand cache that is known as the actress and her experience in the industry. Gilts that are presented to produce castings that organize no larger than 200 euros for the test, while the actresses enshrined in European or American industry can get to pocket $ 3,000 for a scene. The men have it worse. With an average of 300 euros per cut, start with just 50 euros for the first casting. If the result is satisfactory and convinces the director or producer can reach 1,000 euros, collected Nacho Vidal during his American adventure. 
But those data are positive, reflecting a thriving industry with a number of legends around speak of economic boom and astronomical salaries. Dunia Montenegro , a Brazilian of 30 years working as a porn actress in Spain since 2004, removed all these topics. Convinced that he could succeed in the Spanish porn, Dunia sent an e-mail four years ago he organized a casting website and, under its auspices, came to FICEB of that year: "It was a disaster, because the guy who runs this page never paid me. " It was not his only negative experience in the Spanish industry. Ensures that has gone through all kinds of deception, "that promise a kind of sex scene and then find that you have to do anything" or "have agreed that the scene with an actor would you work well and then having to do with someone who disgusts you. " To refuse to abuse what is almost unthinkable agreed: "It is very difficult because you're on set and, if you do, there's always someone willing to earn that money."
Despite the difficulties, Dunia does not renounce his profession, "which has wonderful things." He ended up becoming a major national porn star, something that is not easy precisely at a time when the actors are facing a growing shortage of job offers. "Now is rolled very little and almost everything is marketed directly to Internet, "said Dounia. Unlike movies, which usually shoot a sex scene taking an active day, the segments are recorded Internet very quickly, in just over an hour. And, therefore, are paid less, "about 200 euros," says a young woman who prefers to remain anonymous. With this situation, many actresses have to resort to other activities to make ends meet, like striptease shows, the bachelor animation and even prostitution with the claim that they are porn stars, as recognized by one of those involved.
The Network could be the cause of the second death of traditional Spanish porn. IFG was five years ago the company that films produced in Spain, a dozen a year. Now two years ago. "And that to maintain our international market," says its director of marketing and new technologies, Victor Diago and the rest are segments for Internet, "because they changed consumption habits," is misplaced, which transforms the concept of filmed sex porn movie. Dunia believes the solution is to "find ways to monetize the product, combining traditional type movies that are made for the Internet".
History repeats itself. If the late eighties was the inability to adapt to the format porn film that brought about the demise of the industry, now is the low viability of the model that has endured over the past 16 years, causing the porn industry, crossroads in the middle of deciding between film and sex pure and simple, opt for the business fast and not try to approach art. A decision would cause the death of porn movies and whose epitaph as expressed by Ponce, authoritative voice for his role as a pioneer: "If the Spanish porn was born later and died soon, porn video made later revived and returned to die too soon ".