Resum
Although images of sex are ancient in history, pornography is a more recent concept due to its association to new audio-visual means. Men explore their sexuality more freely than women, which is reflected in pornography by focusing on men’s pleasure. However, “porn for women” has recently emerged, based on the idea that women are also pornography consumers who want to see different contents. Our aim is to investigate in a preliminary way what ideas do men and women have about adult films. We designed a list of 51 items which comprised conventional and non-conventional elements about the number of participants, their appearance and behaviour, the sexual practices, the orgasms (who and when) and the ejaculations (quantity and where). We asked 16 men and 33 women in Spain to rate how frequent these items were, how frequent they would like them to be, and their general opinion about pornography (positive-negative in a 5 point Likert scale). We carried out percentage analyses. Results show that men and women have a similar opinion about pornography and conventional elements are more frequent than non-conventional. Also, men liked conventional elements more than women but, for the majority of cases, these items were not wanted to appear in films neither by men nor women (i.e. facial ejaculations). In conclusion, present adult films do not satisfy neither women nor men. Thus, a change is needed in order to allow audiences to experience their sexuality according to their tastes.