Background and aims Pornography use has become increasingly common. Studies have shown that individuals who use sexually explicit materials (SEMs) report negative effects (Schneider, 2000b). However, Bridges (2008b) found that couples who use SEM together have higher relationship satisfaction than those who use SEM independently. A further investigation into various types of SEM use in relation...

Objective: Due to easy accessibility to pornography for adolescents and youth, research on the use of pornography has proliferated in recent years. The aim of this study was to examine‌ the role of difficulties in emotion regulation and thought control strategies on pornography use. Methods: The population of this research included all students of the Sistan and Baluchestan University in south...

This study investigated whether deviant pornography use followed a Guttman-like progression in that a person transitions from being a nondeviant to deviant pornography user. In order to observe this progression, 630 respondents from Survey Sampling International’s (SSI) panel Internet sample completed an online survey assessing adult-only, bestiality, and child pornography consumption. Responde...

Pornography use today is becoming more mainstream and normalized, especially since the advent of high-speed Internet (Freeman-Longo 2000). This study was designed to examine the relation between Internet pornography use, attitudes and affect by taking a survey of college students. MANOVA and correlational procedures were used to test the hypotheses that greater pornography use would result in m...

In the last several decades pornography in the U.S. has become more mainstream, more accessible, more phallocentric and more degrading to women. Further, consumption of pornography remains a major difference in the sexual experiences of men and women. Yet research has not addressed how opposition to pornography has changed over the this period, despite shifts in the accessibility and visibility...

Pornography use among emerging adults in the USA has increased in recent decades, as has the acceptance of such consumption. While previous research has linked pornography use to both positive and negative outcomes in emerging adult populations, few studies have investigated how attitudes toward pornography may alter these associations, or how examining pornography use together with other sexua...

Background & Aims: Pornography in cyberspace is one of the emerging and multidimensional challenges in society. Each discipline offers different criteria, reasons, perspectives and solutions according to their point of view; But this multidimensional phenomenon has involved all aspects of human societies in individual and group dimensions and has left negative consequences. The aims of this stu...

Internet-pornography-viewing disorder (IPD) is considered one type of Internet-use disorder. For IPD's development, it was assumed theoretically that a dysfunctional use of Internet pornography to cope with depressive mood or stress might be considered to be a risk factor. To address the effect of Internet pornography use on mood, an online study with three measuring points with a sample of mal...

This research concentrates around the topic of the criminal exchange of child pornography material on the Internet. The existing scientific material on this criminal exchange lacks technical details that could help police detectives work more efficiently in child pornography cases. This paper specifies a new criminal exchange model of child pornography that describes (1) the current child porno...