Pornography Consumption and Sexual Choking: An Evaluation of Theoretical Mechanisms
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2021 in Health Communication
KEY FINDINGS
- This study found that consuming porn predicts the likelihood of choking a sexual partner, which is suspected to be due to the normalization of sexual choking in porn.
ABSTRACT
Many researchers interested In the socializing effects of pornography have found heuristic utility in the sexual script acquisition, activation, application model (3AM) of mediated sexual socialization. Studies have emphasized overall pornography/sexual behavior associations, however, rather than mediating sexual beliefs that a 3AM perspective suggests should underlie such associations. The present study used data from a campus-representative probability sample to examine whether linkages between pornography use and heterosexual-identified... READ FULL ABSTRACT
EXCERPTS
- "Consistent with the scripting premise that pornography’s lack of depiction of harms to actresses from actors’ sexually aggressive behaviors leads men to believe that these behaviors are harmless, the association between exposure to pornographic depictions of sexual choking and choking partners during sex was mediated by the belief that sexual choking is safe."
- "Pornography’s omission of affirmative consent depictions coupled with its portrayal of women as sex objects leads men to minimize the need for consent, the association between exposure to pornographic depictions of sexual choking and choking partners during sex was mediated by the disbelief that sexual choking requires consent."
