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On the streets of Lagos, it is not the police who wield power but gangs of fight-hardened young men known as Area Boys. Louis spends time with several outfits, joining them as they patrol their turf, clash with local rivals and keep the peace in a brutal and haphazard fashion. The main income for the Area Boys is an arbitrary and unofficial form of taxation, extracted from local businesses and commercial drivers. Louis gets to know the rich and glamorous Area Boy leader MC, a former street youth himself, who has now become a friend of the most powerful men in the city. Taken under MC’s wing, Louis experiences the top levels of the Area Boys’ world from the inside, complete with a tour of MC’s grand residence and extensive shoe collection, and ending in a chaotic mini-riot with gunshots, blood and mayhem.

On the side of the law, Louis rides with KAI, the government’s Kick Against Indiscipline paramilitary task force, as they storm different city districts. With bulldozers and arrest warrants, KAI use their own strong-arm tactics, and are in their way as feared as the Area Boys.

In Law and Disorder in Lagos, Louis wrestles with life in a world in which the forces of law and the forces of disorder are not always readily distinguishable and nothing is quite what it seems.

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Back in 1997 Louis Theroux made a documentary, as part of his Bafta-winningly odd Weird Weekends series, about a subject that was then relatively unfamiliar this side of the Atlantic – the vast pornography industry that existed alongside mainstream movie-making in Southern California. It was a typically quirky Theroux production focused largely (and highly entertainingly) on the male “performers” and contrasting the stereotypical macho fantasy of easy sex with the crude mechanics of the job – and the physical and psychological dangers it posed to those involved.
Fifteen years on, Theroux returned to the San Fernando Valley for another crack of the whip in Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars (BBC Two). What was apparent from the outset was that time and technological progress have not been kind to the porn producers. The internet – which did so much to bring pornography to within a mouse click of the mass market – had, according to those he interviewed at least, devastated their business by flooding the web with free erotic material. Gone are the days of easy money and rampant, drug-fuelled excess. Yet, they soldier on, the economic blight having had little obvious effect on the number of people willing to engage in extreme sex acts on camera in return for cold hard cash, however diminished the earnings.

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The mood was a lot wearier and warier than back in 1997. Still, doing the rounds of the “model” agencies and film sets threw up plenty of ironic Theroux footage – directors encouraging stars to groan in a “less porno” fashion; two inexperienced actors experiencing a “courtship in reverse – starting with sex and ending up as something like friends” as Theroux described it. There were revealing moments, too, as when one model agency director declared she wouldn’t warn off newcomers from porn but wouldn’t want her own daughter getting involved as she “wouldn’t want to be the mother of a whore”.

An encounter with a veteran contributor to over a thousand porn movies revealed a man convinced he had paid too high a price – his own capacity for love and intimacy – for the fleeting rewards of the job. Theroux’s efforts to reconnect with some of the people he met filming 15 years ago enabled him to throw a darker light on the industry – in particular the fate of one Jon Dough, an actor who committed suicide five years ago, a victim of declining DVD sales and serious drug addiction.

Ultimately though, it wasn’t so much the evolving porn industry as the changes wrought by time on Theroux himself that were the memorable features of this documentary. Followers of his work will have noted the shift away from crank-baiting and celebrity-seducing towards more serious subjects in recent times. Two films shown earlier this year about the treatment of autism and dementia in America were insightful, thoughtful pieces that shone a probing light not just on sufferers of mental illness but those tasked with caring for them, too. Here the contrast with his impish former self in clips from the earlier film was all too clear to see. Fifteen years on he didn’t seem quite so keen to brush over moral ambiguities for the sake of a joke.

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Our world is about to change. Academics believe that within 40 years humans will be having sex with robots and even falling in love and marrying their android companions. In this extraordinary shock-doc, meet three robot fetishists who talk openly and for the first time about their passion for fembots and the inventors vying to bring them the world’s first sex robot.

I’m sorry I don’t have any more information on this. It’s a TV documentary originally aired in the UK.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/58B4FB9F32E84A2/My.Sex.Robot.HDTV.x264-OAK.mkv

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