Sex report film

Sex report films (German: Report-Filme) were pseudo-documentaries that had sexual life as their subject matter.

Effectively sexploitation films, the genre was particularly popular in early 1970s Europe.

Mostly a German (or Germanophone) phenomenon, these films followed in the wake of the Kinsey and Masters and Johnson type reports as well as maintaining elements from the German-speaking educational films (Aufklärungsfilme) tradition.

The success of the Schulmädchen-Report: Was Eltern nicht für möglich halten in 1970 triggered a range of new films that had titles ending with the word -Report per norm, which ostensibly focused on certain populations and gradually lost their pseudo-documentary tone.

Hausfrauen-Report (1971), Ehemänner-Report (1971), Lehrmädchen-Report (1972), Krankenschwestern-Report (1972), Zum zweiten Frühstück: Heiße Liebe (1972), Teenager-Report (1973) were among the most illustrious specimens of the genre, where Ernst Hofbauer was exalted as a pioneering director.