AUTHOR(S)

Fincham, Frank D., Lambert, Nathaniel M., Negash, Sesen, and Sheppard, Nicole Van Ness

PUBLISHED

2016 in Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 53(6), pp. 689-700

KEY FINDINGS

• Participants who abstained from pornography use demonstrated lower delay discounting than participants who abstained from their favorite food. The finding suggests that Internet pornography is a sexual reward that contributes to delay discounting differently than other natural rewards.