The production and distribution of pornographic films are both activities that are lawful in many, but by no means all, countries so long as the pornography features performers aged above a certain age , usually eighteen years. Further restrictions are often placed on such material. The possession of "Indecent and obscene material such as pornographic books, magazines, films, videos, DVDs and software" is prohibited in Botswana.
Possession or import of such material is illegal and punishable by a fine or up to 4 years' imprisonment. In Egypt , it is illegal to distribute pornography. In the country's Prosecutor General ordered government ministries to block the websites, [6] and the Administrative Court repeated its order for the Cabinet to block pornographic websites in All forms of pornography are illegal in Ethiopia, and its production in the country is rare.
The legal status of Internet pornography in Ethiopia is uncertain. In , Morocco introduced severe punishment for promoting pornography. However, pornographic websites are widely accessible in Morocco. Nigeria has no national laws prohibiting pornography, although the public display of graphic sexual material is illegal in Lagos. The country has a small indigenous pornography industry which produces exclusively heterosexual pornography as homosexual activity in Nigeria is illegal.
Some Muslim politicians in the national government have proposed a nationwide block on pornographic websites. The first officially acknowledged hardcore pornographic film produced in Nigeria was Better Lover Valentine Sex Party. It was not submitted to the National Film and Video Censors Board for classification and it was immediately banned on the grounds of obscenity and immorality. In the monthly average for the number of searches for pornography was ,, and in December and the proportion of searches for pornography relative to other searches was higher in Nigeria than in the United States.
In Nigeria ranked second globally for Internet searches for gay pornography. Pornography rated X18 is permitted by the law only if sold to persons over the age of 18 in registered stores. It is an offense to host a pornographic web site in South Africa because of the difficulty of age-verification and the requirement that pornography only be distributed from designated, licensed physical premises.
