Generation Porn

S01E03 There’s a gold rush in the porn industry. More people are watching “adult entertainment” than ever before - the world’s appetite seems to be insatiable. And that demand is creating opportunity. Today anyone with a smart phone or a cheap camera can become a pornographer. 44-year-old Jason once ran a gardening business but today he’s become a full time pornographer, travelling across the country in search of young women willing to star in videos with him. His brand of “first time porn” is making him money but he wants more. He believeshis friend Matt, a bus driver, presents a lucrative new opportunity. Jason gives him his porn debut under the unlikely stage name ‘Fat Bastard’. Jason think’s they’ll always be a market for the porn he’s making – its driven by our base human instincts. For British advertising executive Cindy Gallop, the explosion in on line pornography has had a tangible impact. She dates younger men and has witnessed first hand how their approach to sex has changed. Porn has become “default sex education for an entire generation”. In the prestigious setting of Oxford University, we hear about Cindy’s efforts to counter porn’s negative effects. We learn about her surprising solution, her own ‘real world sex’ site. We also hear from British teenagers who’s discuss the diffiuclties in talking openly about porn and catch a glimpse of the what the future holds at a high-tech Parisian sex-doll brothel where customers are offered VR headsets to enhance their experience. It might sound dystopian but for owner Joaquim the future is bright as he taps into the desires of “the generation born with an iPhone in their hand”.