AUTHOR(S)
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.
Topic
Objectification
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.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
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.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
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.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2020 in Thorn
KEY FINDINGS
- This exploration into self-generated child sexual abuse material (sometimes referred to as "child porn") shows that many minors view sending nudes as normal and that those nude images of minors are often shared without consent.
CATEGORIES
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.
CATEGORIES
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.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2019 in Psychology of Violence, 21520828
KEY FINDINGS
- Consumption of pornography was associated with greater acceptance of objectification of women, which in turn was associated with greater rape myth acceptance and more frequent acts of sexual deception.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2018 in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
KEY FINDINGS
- This experimental study found that consuming porn—especially degrading pornography—led to the participants being more objectifying, more discriminatory, and having more sexist attitudes against women.
CATEGORIES
AUTHOR(S)
PUBLISHED
2017 in Psychology of Men & Masculinity, Vol. 18(4), 257-267
KEY FINDINGS
- Pornography use emerged as a unique predictor of more objectification of women.
- Pornography use uniquely predicted making unwanted sexual advances toward women.