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Introduction Significant increases in pornography [for the purposes of the study, it will be interchangeable with sexually explicit material (SEM)] has prompted researchers to further explore its impact on users and
Abstract
Background and aims
Research indicates that excessive pornography use can negatively impact romantic relationships. However, it is unclear whether these negative outcomes are different than negative outcomes produced by other compulsive or addictive behaviors, such as drug use. This study compared perceptions of relationship outcomes from either a romantic partner's excessive marijuana or pornography use. Furthermore, this study experimentally manipulated four factors potentially related to perceptions of relationship satisfaction and addictive behavior.
Methods
A total of 186 college-aged women read 16 scenarios describing heterosexual romantic relationships in which one partner used either pornography or marijuana. Each scenario varied on four variables: relationship commitment, secrecy of partner's behavior, frequency of partner's behavior, and context of partner's behavior.
Results
Results suggest that partner pornography and marijuana use are perceived to impact romantic relationships similarly and are influenced by similar factors, such as greater frequency, higher secrecy, and partner's availability for interaction.
Conclusions
Such findings are consistent with recommendations by professionals that compulsive pornography use be considered worthy of treatment intervention.
Introduction Sexually explicit material (SEM) is highly attractive especially for men as shown by epidemiological studies on pornography use ( Beutel et al., 2017 ; Wright, 2013 ). While most people use SEM for
emotional and motivational processing of sexually explicit material described by Stark et al. (2019) and extracted the percentage of BOLD signal change in these ROIs during processing sex-related words by the usage of the MarsBaR toolbox ( http
reinforcement motivations are related to addictive behaviors ( Steinberg et al., 2008 ). As the Internet contains many opportunities for engaging in OSAs (relating to pornography viewing, sharing of sexually explicit materials, etc.), individuals with higher SSS
et al. ( 2017 ) found only a positive linear relationship between problematic Internet pornography use and approach–avoidance scores on an AAT modified with sexually explicit material. Moreover, in a neuroimaging study, individuals with problematic
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