A movie. It all started with one movie. A movie that would change my life forever, change my view on the world, change the way I saw humans and the opposite sex. A movie!
I grew up in a tiny commercial town in eastern Nigeria. Aba, known for its commercial prowess had served as the only home known to my family and I for the first 17 years of my life.
In this suburb, I had not only learnt my first words but also made my first set of friends many of which I made in school. Growing up in that environment, we all wanted to experience life, embrace technology and get a feel of the European lifestyle as we had seen it being portrayed in our movies. Hence, we practiced virtually all we watched and said all we heard being said on TV. So it wasn't surprising back in my JSS 2 days, when a friend walked up to me after classes one day and gave me a case.
On close examination, I realized it was a VCD case, containing a movie. VCDs were the in-thing then, DVDs hadn't been popular and you'd have to be rich to own a player. Exchanging movies was a thing we did frequently, we exchanged movies ranging from chinese action movies to the funny Hollywood movies; Nollywood wasn't really our thing. So you'd understand why my joy knew no bounds, as I was handed this piece of heaven, my only window to the world at that time.
"This movie is not like any other movie you've watched", he said. I didn't know what it was but I felt it. I didn't know if it was the excitement in his eyes or the things he said as he handed me the movie that got me so interested in watching the movie. With the same excitement that have enveloped my friend, I slid the movie into my school bag just in time to miss the teacher that walked out of the classroom next to us. Trying to act normal, we greeted him as he walked past us. That was a very close call, movies were not allowed in school and being found in possession of one was a serious offense and could land one in serious trouble with the school.
As soon as I had my dinner and done my chores at home that evening, I sat down to do my assignment. This I did late so that they could keep me up late into the night because they were usually much. Moreover, I had to watch the movie and didn't want anyone up while I did. He had told me to ensure I saw it alone, the reason for which I didn't know at that time but I was sure to find out. So I stole towards my parents room, checked and was sure they were asleep. After confirming that I was the only one awake, I switched on the TV, slot in the movie and pushed the play button.
The movie started like every normal movie I had watched, a group of college students were having a pool party sort of. I had no problems with the bikini party and the drinks, I had seen them times before but what caught my attention were the things that happened when I went further into the movie. I was stunned by the amount of nudity that lay before me. I had seen naked drawings of human beings in my fine art and biology text books but these detailed, lively motion pictures of nudity were all new to me. They were doing things I didn't understand, something I later came to understand was sex, they were having sex. I didn't understand much about it but I knew they were enjoying whatever it was they were doing, I could tell from the shout and low moans of excitement I heard.
Also the changes I observed on me, it was different, I hadn't felt that way before. I didn't know or have the words to describe what I was experiencing at that time, but little did I know that in that room, that night sitting alone on the couch while the rest of my family was fast asleep, I was being baptized into the world of pornography. A baptism I wasn't going to recover from in a long time. ( to be continued...)
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