Breaking expectations through personal experiences! Young people reflecting and learning about sexualities and gender through porn: an ethnographic study in Barcelona

Porn studies have a long tradition of researching porn as a cultural artifact in relation to adult audiences. Recently, there has been increasing interest in young people’s uses and perceptions of porn since there is a general concern about its possible harms and dangers. This article aims to shed l...

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Autores: Masanet, Maria-Jose, Fernández, Laura, Villanueva Baselga, Sergio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:ubarcelona__::9deaba9a3064915057eedc9a59952fc8
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/229146
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pornografia
Adolescència
Sexualitat
Gènere
Transmèdia
Pornography
Adolescence
Sex
Gender
Transmedia
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Sumario:Porn studies have a long tradition of researching porn as a cultural artifact in relation to adult audiences. Recently, there has been increasing interest in young people’s uses and perceptions of porn since there is a general concern about its possible harms and dangers. This article aims to shed light on these issues through an ethnographic study carried out in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Our main objective is to understand how teenagers and young people use, experience, and give meaning to the porn content they consume. We applied a bottom-up approach that brings the real and everyday experiences of young people to the discussion. The results focus on three areas: the spatial, temporal, and media context in which young people approach porn; their own interpretations of pornographic content, considering gender differences; and the double preventive and educational view young people extract from porn.