Due to the steady rise of availability of Internet content and growing consumption of it, sexual and explicit content including pornography gains constantly more attention (Hald & Malamuth, 2008). Pornography itself can be defined as “effortless sexual arousal” (Böthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, & Orosz, 2017), meaning that no other person and not even the mental effort to imagine something oneself are necessary anymore to get aroused.
A lot of research about pornography consumption has been conducted and the findings are striking. Pornography consumption is prevalent among men and subjects have a higher education as well as a higher socioeconomic background (Kasemy, El-Sayed Desouky, & Abdelrasoul, 2016). Men have a higher frequency in pornography …show more content…
The consumption of pornographic content is correlated with a low level of commitment resulting in a higher percentage of unfaithfulness in relationships and led to the consumers having more casual sex instead of an intimate relationship (Lambert, Negash, Stillman, Olmstead, & Fincham, 2012). Research conducted by Bergner and Bridges (2002) found, that if the male partner is consuming pornographic content, this could result in enviousness and low perceptions of self-worth in women. Furthermore a study from Perry (2017) suggests that pornography users are more likely to get a divorce or separation from their partner than people that do not watch pornographic content, and specified that this disaffection between the couples was not caused by prior complications in the …show more content…
Previous studies have shown that effects of violent pornography consumption can range from men displaying more violence towards women in their own sexual life (Brown & L’Engle, 2009; Kingston, Malamuth, Fedoroff, & Marshall, 2009; Vega & Malamuth, 2007; Ybarra, Mitchell, Hamburger, Diener-West, & Leaf, 2010), to women endure and increase acceptance for more violence from the side of men (Davis, Norris, George, Martell, & Heiman, 2006). On the other hand, men who consume violent pornography regularly display more machismo and dominance in other areas of life, apart from the sexual aspect (Mulac, Jansma, & Linz, 2002). This dominance could result in relationship problems if the woman does not accept nor tolerates this kind of attitude. This evidence suggests that also violent pornography can have positive and negative
A lot of research about pornography consumption has been conducted and the findings are striking. Pornography consumption is prevalent among men and subjects have a higher education as well as a higher socioeconomic background (Kasemy, El-Sayed Desouky, & Abdelrasoul, 2016). Men have a higher frequency in pornography …show more content…
The consumption of pornographic content is correlated with a low level of commitment resulting in a higher percentage of unfaithfulness in relationships and led to the consumers having more casual sex instead of an intimate relationship (Lambert, Negash, Stillman, Olmstead, & Fincham, 2012). Research conducted by Bergner and Bridges (2002) found, that if the male partner is consuming pornographic content, this could result in enviousness and low perceptions of self-worth in women. Furthermore a study from Perry (2017) suggests that pornography users are more likely to get a divorce or separation from their partner than people that do not watch pornographic content, and specified that this disaffection between the couples was not caused by prior complications in the …show more content…
Previous studies have shown that effects of violent pornography consumption can range from men displaying more violence towards women in their own sexual life (Brown & L’Engle, 2009; Kingston, Malamuth, Fedoroff, & Marshall, 2009; Vega & Malamuth, 2007; Ybarra, Mitchell, Hamburger, Diener-West, & Leaf, 2010), to women endure and increase acceptance for more violence from the side of men (Davis, Norris, George, Martell, & Heiman, 2006). On the other hand, men who consume violent pornography regularly display more machismo and dominance in other areas of life, apart from the sexual aspect (Mulac, Jansma, & Linz, 2002). This dominance could result in relationship problems if the woman does not accept nor tolerates this kind of attitude. This evidence suggests that also violent pornography can have positive and negative