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PUBLISHED
2021 in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
KEY FINDINGS
- Researchers found that pornography consumption is associated with both animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization, which predict sexually aggressive attitudes and behaviors.
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2021 in Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
KEY FINDINGS
- In this qualitative study, researchers conducted and analyzed in-depth interviews with women in the porn industry, finding that sexual exploitation seems to be a common experience among performers in the industry.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2021 in Sexuality & Culture
KEY FINDINGS
- This study found that although most porn consumers are generally unconcerned about the potential mistreatment of porn performers, about 70% of porn consumers who do learn about mistreatment in the porn industry take some form of action to combat it.
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AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2021 in Gender Issues
KEY FINDINGS
- Analyzing videos from two of the most popular porn sites, this study found that porn tends to perpetuate harmful, racist stereotypes against Black people. Black men were significantly more often portrayed as aggressors, while Black women were significantly more often portrayed as the targets of violence or aggression.
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PUBLISHED
2021 in Violence Against Women
KEY FINDINGS
- This study analyzed the language used by incels on incel-related forums, and found that the language is strikingly parallel to themes found in mainstream pornography.
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PUBLISHED
2021 in Journal of Sexual Aggression
KEY FINDINGS
- This study indicates that frequency of pornography consumption is a significant predictor of committing acts of sexual violence.
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PUBLISHED
2021 in Journal of Health Communication
KEY FINDINGS
- According to this nationally representative survey of 14-18-year-olds, 84.4% of males and 57.1% of females had viewed pornography. Researchers also found that exposure to pornography and the belief that pornography is realistic was significantly associated with sexual aggression.
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PUBLISHED
2020 in Psychology of Violence
KEY FINDINGS
- According to this study, an estimated 1 in 12 U.S. adults have been victims of nonconsensual pornography (aka "revenge porn"), while 1 in 20 have been perpetrators of spreading nonconsensual pornography. Women were more often targets of nonconsensual pornography, while men were more often perpetrators. Nonconsensual pornography victimization also led to poorer mental health outcomes.
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AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2020 in Archives of Sexual Behavior
KEY FINDINGS
- In this study, researchers analyzed 4,009 pornographic scenes from Pornhub and Xvideos, finding that 45% of the Pornhub scenes and 35% of the Xvideos scenes contained physical aggression. Women were the targets of aggression 97% of the time, yet the performers were shown to respond with pleasure or neutrally 97.4% of the time on Pornhub and 92.7% of the time on Xvideos.
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PUBLISHED
2020 in Journal of American College Health
KEY FINDINGS
- This study found that frequent pornography use increased odds of experiencing emotional abuse.