Adult film industry, always leading the way when it comes to new technologies, quickly adopts analog video before becomes a mainstream audio-visual medium. The mutual affinity provides advantage for both parties: Transforming industry practices, aesthetics and content, technology contributes with more profit answers demands of porn regulars. In return, pornography helps become widespread by pro...

In this study, we examined the links between Internet addiction, engagement in online erotica (including pornography usage and usage of sex-based Internet chat sites), and engagement in risky online sexual behaviors, in this case, sending sexually-explicit pictures to those known only online (i.e., sexting) and expecting to engage in offline sex with those known only online. In our sample of 27...

The proposal to add use of child pornography to Criterion B of pedophilia is in direct conflict with the newly proposed distinction between paraphilia and paraphilic disorder, muddying rather than clarifying the diagnostic definition of pedophilia. The proposal to distinguish paraphilic disorder from paraphilia derives from the fact that the diagnostic criteria for the paraphilias have two comp...

The radical feminist critique of pornography remains the most compelling analysis sexually explicit material available, yet it is routinely marginalized in dominant culture and circles. Why? Patriarchy woven deeply into our lives, denial or avoidance pathology patriarchy common. But men should embrace, not reject, feminism, only for sake women’s liberation but own. power arguments from both jus...

Received: 26 November 10 Accepted: 18 January 11 Published: 21 February 11 Surg Neurol Int 2011, 2:19 This article is available from: http://www.surgicalneurologyint.com/content/1/2/19 Copyright: © 2011 Hilton DL. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p...

Pornography use is a common recreational activity in most developed nations with unrestricted internet access. As public awareness of pornography’s popularity has grown, so have concerns about potentially deleterious effects pornography. One domain particular concern been the impact pornography and online sexual behaviors on wellbeing. Over recent years, number studies examined how relates to T...