I help a girl run a blog that talks about sex and features tasteful nude photography of her. The trouble is, none of the big ad companies will come near us because of the adult content, but we don't want tasteless ads to lower the quality of the site. How can we monetize the site without tasteless ads? the site is http://africanorchid.com
have you try the privatelabel by adbrite. they can offer the advertisement. and you can always see in adult section of this DP
Compile some good content and make it a membership site, $5/month. You could leave the blog (w/o pics) public, or make it private with some public entries. Also if you consider the photos to be "art" then find some online store that lets you sell prints or something. Marketing will be the key here.
Try adult sites affiliation programs - some of them have seperate promotion for african people...what am saying is it will be more unique to promote african banners. Mail me for details or links.
i've had many problems with my adult sites also.. as all big networks don't want show ads on adult content sites... if you don't want to promote porn affiliate programs have a look into adultfriendfinder or just friendfinder. you could make upto $1 per click (this is really hard) but if you have good traffic you could make a couple of hundred a month with them.