Identifying the challenges of interdisciplinary research on pornography use

Towards a Transnational Sexual Health Research and Policy Agenda: the European Sexual Medicine Network Delphi Study

“…Even though most researchers would agree on the importance and pervasiveness of pornography in recent decades, there are many empirical challenges in research framework on how to accurately appraise pornography usage in the population and gather data on such hard-to-measure behaviour. Also, one study has clearly shown how different researchers disagree on definitions, methodological approaches and data analysis (Litsou & Byron, 2020). These are just two potential reasons why we believe this issue was not high up on the experts' agenda.…”

What and how: doing good research with young people, digital intimacies, and relationships and sex education

“…Participants noted difficulties posed by working across boundaries, and in aligning multiple, sometimes conflicting, agendas. For example, a research project across the fields of social psychology, media studies, and gender studies found that researchers from different disciplines had different ideas about what constitutes healthy sexual development (Litsou and Byron 2019 ). There may also be challenges in reconciling conflicting requirements of the health and education sectors for research that is useful and can inform practice, and the need for academics to have the freedom to identify interesting areas of enquiry which may not directly generate evidence of use to a sector or organisation.…”

Associations Between Online Pornography Consumption and Sexual Dysfunction in Young Men: Multivariate Analysis Based on an International Web-Based Survey

“…A better understanding of the associations between PPC and ED might add new insights in the prevention and treatment of ED, especially in young men. These associations are complex and can only be fully understood in a multidisciplinary setting, as they require knowledge from different research fields (eg, psychology, sexology, sociology, urology) [28,29]. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of pornography consumption and PPC in young men and to better understand their connection with ED.…”