Video transcript

“No Pot Ser” is a Catalonian TV-show about the impact of technology on our society.They wanted to make an episode about the effects of online porn use in school children. We sat down with one of the producers to talk about their process in making the show.

So we wanted to make a show about the impact of pornography, internet porn on teenagers. It really was a sensitive matter because you cannot have a teenager speaking about his sexual life on TV, even less on a public broadcaster. So it was a massive task for us to find real and honest answers from teenagers without revealing who contributors were. This episode of No Pot Ser was a different format from the other episodes. In this case, we put fifty teenagers in a classroom they were kids around thirteen to fourteen years old, boys and girls mixed 50/50 and then we did the Mentimeter actually with them.

So we had our presenter with a sex therapist who was giving the questions to the kids and the kids would answer on the phones and we will have the answer right away on a screen in the classroom. So Mentimeter was excellent for that because it gave us the anonymity of the student.

So in parallel, we show another sequence with a group of four or five parents and we would give them the answers the kids had given us in the classroom. Parents tend to think their kids are angels and they would never watch porn or something like that. But the truth is that we find out that in a group of fifty, almost 80% of them watched porn before they were 10 years old - that was the first questions of the show. That gives you a perspective of everything in that conversation right, the actions they see on porn, they take it as the regular thing, as the norm. So that when they start exploring their sexuality in real life, the expectations are porn expectations, so that leads to frustration.

You know, teenagers they like to talk about sex a lot, of course, but they don’t like to talk about sex with adults - that’s the worst nightmare for a teenager. So we have this way to do it and I think it fits the subject perfectly. They could have their own phones, so it felt natural for them. The sex therapist was really used to speaking with teenagers, so I believe they felt safe, so they could be honest in the answers so in the end, for us, it was perfect because we would not have only one kid’s questions, but fifty kids’ questions.

Video transcript

“No Pot Ser” is a Catalonian TV-show about the impact of technology on our society.They wanted to make an episode about the effects of online porn use in school children. We sat down with one of the producers to talk about their process in making the show.

So we wanted to make a show about the impact of pornography, internet porn on teenagers. It really was a sensitive matter because you cannot have a teenager speaking about his sexual life on TV, even less on a public broadcaster. So it was a massive task for us to find real and honest answers from teenagers without revealing who contributors were. This episode of No Pot Ser was a different format from the other episodes. In this case, we put fifty teenagers in a classroom they were kids around thirteen to fourteen years old, boys and girls mixed 50/50 and then we did the Mentimeter actually with them.

So we had our presenter with a sex therapist who was giving the questions to the kids and the kids would answer on the phones and we will have the answer right away on a screen in the classroom. So Mentimeter was excellent for that because it gave us the anonymity of the student.

So in parallel, we show another sequence with a group of four or five parents and we would give them the answers the kids had given us in the classroom. Parents tend to think their kids are angels and they would never watch porn or something like that. But the truth is that we find out that in a group of fifty, almost 80% of them watched porn before they were 10 years old - that was the first questions of the show. That gives you a perspective of everything in that conversation right, the actions they see on porn, they take it as the regular thing, as the norm. So that when they start exploring their sexuality in real life, the expectations are porn expectations, so that leads to frustration.

You know, teenagers they like to talk about sex a lot, of course, but they don’t like to talk about sex with adults - that’s the worst nightmare for a teenager. So we have this way to do it and I think it fits the subject perfectly. They could have their own phones, so it felt natural for them. The sex therapist was really used to speaking with teenagers, so I believe they felt safe, so they could be honest in the answers so in the end, for us, it was perfect because we would not have only one kid’s questions, but fifty kids’ questions.