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Web End = Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations
Chyng Sun Ana Bridges Jennifer A. Johnson
Matthew B. Ezzell
Received: 17 July 2013 / Revised: 26 August 2014 / Accepted: 3 September 2014 / Published online: 3 December 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Abstract Pornographyhasbecomeaprimarysourceofsexual education. At the same time, mainstream commercial pornographyhascoalescedaroundarelativelyhomogenousscriptinvolving violence and female degradation. Yet, little work has been doneexploringtheassociationsbetweenpornographyanddyadic sexual encounters: What role does pornography play inside real-worldsexualencountersbetweenamanandawoman?Cognitive script theory argues media scripts create a readily accessible heuristic model for decision-making. The more a user watches a particular media script, the more embedded those codes of behavior become in their worldview and the more likely they are to use thosescriptstoactuponreallifeexperiences.Wearguepornographycreatesasexualscriptthatthenguidessexualexperiences.To test this, we surveyed 487 college men (ages 1829years) in the United States to compare their rate of pornography use with sexual preferences and concerns. Results showed the more pornography a man watches, the more likely he was to use it during sex, request particular pornographic sex acts of his partner, deliberately conjure images of pornography during sex to maintain
arousal, and have concerns over his own sexual performance and body image. Further, higher pornography use was negativelyassociatedwithenjoyingsexuallyintimatebehaviorswith a partner. We conclude that pornography provides a powerful heuristic model which is implicated in mens expectations and behaviors during sexual encounters.
Keywords Pornography Male sexuality Sex education
Cognitive script theory Relationships
Introduction
Theexplosionofpornographyonlineaswellasitsinltrationinto the popular culture has raised questions about its inuence on the sexuallivesofadolescentsandemergingadults.Pornographyisa multi-billion dollar industryandiseasily accessible to all ages by virtue of its affordability, accessibility, and anonymity (Cooper, 1998). As such, a majority of boys and girls will be exposed to pornography before age 16 (Sabina, Wolak, & Finkelhor, 2008), before the average age of rst intercourse of 17.1 years (Centers for Disease Control, 2012). These high rates of pornography exposure come at a time when federally mandated abstinence-only sexual education programs have been shown to be ineffective at helping adolescents make informed and...