Psychological and Relational Correlates of Pornography Use on Men in Romantic Relationships

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn M. Szymanski ◽  
Destin N. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Pornography Use

The Influence of Pornography on Romantic Relationships of Emerging Adults

2017 ◽  
pp. 178-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Young-Petersen ◽  
Brian J. Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars have studied emerging adults and pornography extensively, but to date there is no research on how pornography influences how emerging adults approach and act in relationships. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the nature of pornography use among emerging adults, as well as to look at the relationship between pornography use and porn-related relational anxiety among emerging adults. The authors describe existing research on pornography and emerging adults, introduce their own study, and explain the results and implications.

The Influence of Pornography on Romantic Relationships of Emerging Adults

2019 ◽  
pp. 1408-1432
Author(s):  
Bonnie Young-Petersen ◽  
Brian J. Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars have studied emerging adults and pornography extensively, but to date there is no research on how pornography influences how emerging adults approach and act in relationships. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the nature of pornography use among emerging adults, as well as to look at the relationship between pornography use and porn-related relational anxiety among emerging adults. The authors describe existing research on pornography and emerging adults, introduce their own study, and explain the results and implications.

Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 2802-2821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel ◽  
Natalie O. Rosen ◽  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Nathan D. Leonhardt ◽  
Sophie Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Daily Diary Design

Pornography use is now considered a normative sexual activity, including for partnered individuals. Although there are documented positive and negative effects of pornography use on romantic relationships, studies to date suffer from key limitations, narrowing their clinical relevance. Most rely on vague recall measurement that may inadequately capture actual pornography use, and all are exclusively based on mixed-sex couples. This study used a 35-day dyadic daily diary design to examine the associations between an individual’s daily pornography use and their own and their partner’s relationship satisfaction, partnered sexual desire, and probability of partnered sexual activity in mixed-sex and same-sex couples ( N = 217 couples). For women, regardless of partner’s sex, using pornography was associated with their own and their partner’s higher sexual desire and with higher odds of partnered sexual activity. For men, regardless of partner’s sex, using pornography was associated with their partner’s lower sexual desire; for men coupled with women, with lower odds of partnered sexual activity, and for men coupled with men, with higher odds of partnered sexual activity. For all participants, pornography use was unrelated to relationship satisfaction. The current study demonstrated that an individual’s pornography use is associated with same-day couple’s sexual dynamics, with different associations according to users’ and their partners’ sex.

scholarly journals The Role of Pornography Use in Intimate Partner Violence in Different-Sex Couples: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110551
Author(s):  
Katherine Jongsma ◽  
Patti Timmons Fritz
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal Study ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal ◽  
Over Time

Pornography use and intimate partner violence (IPV) are both prevalent in romantic relationships. However, information is lacking about whether pornography use predicts IPV. This study examined the relation between frequency of pornography use (FPU) and IPV across a span of 4 months in a sample of 132 different-sex couple dyads. At least one partner in each couple was attending a Canadian university. Participants ( N = 264) completed online measures of pornography use, IPV, and social desirability at baseline and at a 4-month follow-up. Two longitudinal actor–partner interdependence models using a structural equation framework to conduct path analyses demonstrated that (a) higher FPU among men at baseline predicted increases in IPV perpetration and victimization from baseline to 4-month follow-up for both men and women and (b) women’s baseline FPU did not predict change in IPV over time for themselves or their partners. These findings suggest that frequent pornography use among male partners in different-sex romantic relationships may represent an under-recognized risk factor for IPV, and further research is needed to identify latent factors that may be contributing to this relation. Although women’s baseline FPU did not predict changes in IPV over time, this may be because women used pornography less frequently than men.

scholarly journals Perceptions of infidelity: A comparison of sexual, emotional, cyber-, and parasocial behaviors

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimee Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sexual Infidelity ◽  
Parasocial Relationships ◽  
Emotional Infidelity ◽  
Romantic Attachments ◽  
Online Infidelity ◽  
Pornography Use

Previous research indicates that extradyadic sexual behaviors and other behaviors including emotional infidelity, pornography use, and online infidelity are considered to be acts of betrayal. However, perceptions of infidelity occurring through social media and of romantic parasocial relationships (one-sided romantic attachments formed with media figures) have not been well researched. In two exploratory studies, I examined a) the extent to which participants rated parasocial, sexual, emotional, and social media behaviors as infidelity, and b) how hurtful these behaviors would be if a partner were to enact them. I also examined how often participants reported having been negatively affected by their partner’s parasocial romances. Results indicate that activities such as sexting and sexy Snapchatting are perceived similarly to both cybersex and physical sexual infidelity, and that parasocial infidelity is seen similarly to pornography use. These similarities apply to whether the acts are seen as infidelity, and in terms of the emotional pain the acts may cause. These results indicate that extradyadic social media and parasocial behaviors can be negatively perceived, and may be likely to negatively affect real-life romantic relationships.

The Influence of Pornography on Romantic Relationships of Emerging Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Bonnie Young-Petersen ◽  
Brian J. Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars have studied emerging adults and pornography extensively, but to date there is no research on how pornography influences how emerging adults approach and act in relationships. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the nature of pornography use among emerging adults, as well as to look at the relationship between pornography use and pornography-related relational anxiety among emerging adults. The authors describe existing research on pornography and emerging adults, introduce their own study, and explain the results and implications.

Pornography Use in Adult Mixed-Sex Romantic Relationships: Context and Correlates

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel ◽  
Marie-Ève Daspe ◽  
Véronique Charbonneau-Lefebvre ◽  
Myriam Bosisio ◽  
Sophie Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Pornography Use

Narcissism and Perceived Inequity in Attractiveness in Romantic Relationships

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Rohmann ◽  
Hans-Werner Bierhoff ◽  
Martina Schmohr
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Gender Effect ◽  
Dyadic Analysis ◽  
Dyadic Data ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Intraclass Correlations ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Additional Variance

In three studies of romantic relationships (N = 253, N = 81, and N = 98) the hypothesis was tested that high narcissists, relative to low narcissists, distort the assessment of equity in attractiveness. Narcissism was measured by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. In Study 1 the hypothesis was confirmed. In Study 2 it was shown that although narcissism correlated significantly with self-esteem, it was the unique variance in narcissism which predicted the tendency to feel underbenefited in respect to attractiveness. Finally in Study 3, dyadic data were analyzed on the basis of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. The data of 49 couples who lived together were included. The dyadic analysis indicated that actor narcissism exerted the expected influence on perceived inequity in attractiveness, whereas partner narcissism explained no additional variance. High narcissists felt more underbenefited than low narcissists. The analysis of dyadic data in Study 3 indicates that the link between narcissism and equity in attractiveness turns out to be an intrapersonal phenomenon because only actor narcissism, not partner narcissism, is significantly correlated with perceived inequity. In addition, partial intraclass correlations revealed that if one partner tended to feel underbenefited, the other partner tended to feel overbenefited. The results are explained on the basis of the agentic model of narcissism. All three studies consistently revealed a gender effect indicating that women felt more underbenefited than men in terms of attractiveness.

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