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PUBLISHED
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.
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Society
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PUBLISHED
2021 in Communication Monographs
KEY FINDINGS
- The findings of this study show that pornography consumption is associated with believing sexual misinformation, suggesting that pornography is actively contributing to making young people more sexually illiterate.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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AUTHOR(S)
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
2021 in Archives of Sexual Behavior
KEY FINDINGS
- This nationally representative survey found that 1 in 4 18-24 year-olds surveyed identified pornography as the most helpful source for learning about how to have sex. Additionally, this study found that adolescents who had healthy discussions with parents about sex were less likely to report that pornography was a helpful source of information about sex.