- The documentary series establishes a direct dialogue with teenagers, their parents, professionals from the porn industry and experts in sex education. The work, which is currently in production and will be released soon, provides testimonies and revealing data on the reality of the current relationship between teenagers and sex.
- Generation Porno’ is a co-production of TV3, ETB and Shine Iberia that reflects on and offers answers to the serious problem of the sexual education of a whole generation of teenagers and the unlimited and indiscriminate access to porn.
The average age at which children first come into contact with porn is 8 years old and, in many cases, porn later becomes their main source of sexual education. Furthermore, studies reveal how the sexual expectations of many young people are clearly marked by their relationship with pornography, something that certainly distances their sexual behaviour from that of other generations. To shed light on this problem, ‘Generation Porno’ is a revealing documentary series that shows, without filters and in first person, the current relationship between teenagers and sex.
Generation Porno’ is a co-production of TV3, ETB and Shine Iberia (Banijay Iberia) that comes to light after many years of work and aims to be a portrait, in a rigorous but relaxed tone, of an obvious and worrying reality: the porn industry is marking the sexual life of the new generations, who transfer all these behaviours to real life and significantly alter their way of relating to the people around them. The documentary series aims to teach, entertain and, above all, make the viewer reflect on the type of sex education that our teenagers are receiving in a new context in which it is no longer necessary to look specifically for porn to find it. The documentary series seeks to raise a necessary social debate, essential to make institutions react and change the current situation.
The real world in a necessary documentary series
Generación Porno’ records the extraordinary testimonies of four families from Catalonia, the Basque Country and Madrid, made up of parents and their teenage children. The work is developed around different premises that will underline some of the problems, myths and shortcomings that appear today in the sexual education of young people. They will be uncomfortable and funny moments in which, for example, parents and children will check in front of the computer screen or mobile phone the type of content that can be accessed today with just 2 clicks, without any parental control.
The documentary series raises interesting questions about the porn industry: Why is this content not controlled? Why is it free? Why is something that is fiction passed off as reality? In addition, throughout the series, families will talk to porn actors who will tell them about some tricks and techniques used in filming to fake sequences, visit workshops on prevention and awareness, and attend meetings with sex addicts, with people suffering from sexually transmitted diseases, with experts in cybersecurity and also with the Mossos d’Esquadra, Ertzainza and the National Police. Thanks to all these experiences, parents and children will be able to find answers in an immersive way to the different issues raised in the documentary.
Generation Porn’ witnesses how teenagers talk openly about sex and porn in the presence of their parents, without any kind of taboos, with surprising naturalness and truth. Moreover, in order to understand the current context in which they operate, the documentary also gives prominence to the opinions of porn and sex education professionals, actors, directors, producers, distributors, psychologists, sex therapists and porn addicts. From the conversation with all of them, revealing data about porn emerges (average hours of consumption, number of online porn websites in the world or money currently generated by the industry, for example) as well as very interesting background debates.
The hypersexualisation of young people’s leisure time, the decisive influence of content creators on rrss, the direct relationship between this “new sex education linked to porn” and the growing number of sexual assaults by teenagers, the need for regulated sex education in schools and the gap in the control of access to porn for minors are just some of them.