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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.
Topic
Assault Culture
AUTHOR(S)
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.
CATEGORIES
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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 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
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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PUBLISHED
2020 in Journal of American College Health
KEY FINDINGS
- This study found that frequent pornography use increased odds of experiencing emotional abuse.
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PUBLISHED
2020 in Archives of Sexual Behavior
KEY FINDINGS
- The results of this longitudinal study showed that pornography use significantly predicted more willingness to forward sexts.
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TOPICS
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2020 in Journal of Sexual Medicine
KEY FINDINGS
- In this nationally representative survey, researchers found that pornography consumption is significantly associated with engaging in aggressive sexual behaviors—both as the aggressor and the target of aggression. Women and men who have sex with men were significantly more likely to report being the targets of sexually aggressive behaviors.