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This episode features an interview with the South Asian porn star Sahara Knite. We explore attitudes towards porn & sex among South Asians, and talk about very South Asian fetishes. We talk about Sahara’s family and their responses to her work.Sangeeta talks about her personal experiences watching porn for the first time, when she was growing up in India. She also discusses how porn skews our idea of what the ‘perfect porn body’ should be. And how porn has normalised the concept that all women have hairless bodies and hairless vulvas. As well as the racial stereotyping that exists in porn.
Sahara Knite, also a porn actress, featured in one of Game of Thrones’s most controversial sex scenes, in which brothel owner Littlefinger coached new prostitutes to fake an orgasm.
The show has already featured British porn star Sahara Knite, who played prostitute Armeca in the first two series.
Saeeda Vorajee goes by the alias Sahara Knite in her adult industry work. Knite got into the adult industry a little later than most. Working as a clothing technologist in fashion industry for 6 years, she decided to become a porn star at the age of 30. Since then she has appeared in almost 60 movies!
In this episode of the Roti Riot Podcast, Shaazia and Waseem chat to Porn Performer Sahara Knite about her life and career as a muslim woman that does sex work.














