Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction

Prause, Nicole; Pfaus, James G.

doi:10.1002/sm2.58

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“…Indeed, many individuals report that pornography consumption is associated with improvements in sexual life, increased sexual knowledge, and a more positive and permissive attitude about sexuality. [5][6][7][8][9] Likewise, Landripet and Štulhofer 10 concluded that, in heterosexual young men, pornography consumption does not seem to be related to desire, erectile, or orgasmic difficulties. These results stand in stark contrast with those of recent studies reporting that pornography use is associated with adverse sexual effects such as sexually compulsive behaviors, dependence to pornography, and risky sexual behaviors.…”

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Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction

Blais-Lecours

Vaillancourt‐Morel

Sabourin

et al. 2016

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Using pornography through the Internet is now a common activity even if associated sexual outcomes, including sexual satisfaction, are highly variable. The present study tested a two-step sequential mediation model whereby cyberpornography time use is related to sexual satisfaction through the association with, in a first step, perceived addiction to cyberpornography (i.e., perceived compulsivity, effort to access, and distress toward pornography) and with, in a second step, sexual functioning problems (i.e., sexual dysfunction, compulsion, and avoidance). These differential associations were also examined across gender using model invariance across men and women. A sample of 832 adults from the community completed self-report online questionnaires. Results indicated that 51 percent of women and 90 percent of men reported viewing pornography through the Internet. Path analyses showed indirect complex associations in which cyberpornography time use is associated with sexual dissatisfaction through perceived addiction and sexual functioning problems. These patterns of associations held for both men and women.

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Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction

Blais-Lecours

Vaillancourt‐Morel

Sabourin

et al. 2016

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…Specifically, whether a causal relationship of pornography-induced erectile dysfunction is justified (Fisher & Kohut, 2017). While there is no evidence for a general association (Landripet & Štulhofer, 2015;Prause & Pfaus, 2015), there is some evidence for problematic pornography use specifically. Yet, no causal link could be identified in a longitudinal investigation (Grubbs & Gola, 2019).…”

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Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality

Zimmer

Imhoff

2020

Arch Sex Behav

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Despite the lack of evidence for negative health effects of masturbation, abstinence from masturbation is frequently recommended as a strategy to improve one's sexual self-regulation. We adopted a framework of perceived problems with pornography to collect first hints about whether abstinence from masturbation stems from a psychological and behavioral "addiction" or conflicting attitudes. In an online questionnaire survey recruited via a non-thematic Reddit thread (n = 1063), most participants reported that they had tried to be abstinent from masturbation. As visible from zero-order correlations and multiple linear regression, motivation for abstinence was mostly associated with attitudinal correlates, specifically the perception of masturbation as unhealthy. While there were associations with hypersexuality, no significant correlation with behavioral markers such as maximum number of orgasms was found. Higher abstinence motivation was related to a higher perceived impact of masturbation, conservatism, and religiosity and to lower trust in science. We argue that research on abstinence from masturbation can enrich the understanding of whether and how average frequencies of healthy behavior are pathologized.Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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“…There is also some evidence linking pornography use to sexual functioning issues, such as erectile dysfunction (Landripet & Štulhofer, 2015). On the other hand, Prause and Pfaus (2015) found hours per week spent watching pornography to be unrelated to erectile problems in men and actually predictive of increased desire for sex with one's partner. Furthermore, Internet pornography use was directly associated with less sexual dysfunction in an online sample of men and women (Blais-Lecours, Vaillancourt-Morel, Sabourin, & Godbout, 2016).…”

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Pornography, preference for porn‐like sex, masturbation, and men's sexual and relationship satisfaction

Miller

McBain

et al. 2019

Personal Relationships

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Pornography use, preference for “porn‐like” sex, masturbation, and sexual and relationship satisfaction were assessed among two samples of men (NStudy 1 = 326, NStudy 2 = 335). Frequent pornography use was associated with sexual dissatisfaction, greater preference for porn‐like sex, and more frequent masturbation in both studies. Pornography use was associated with relationship dissatisfaction in Study 2 only. The data did not support the notion that pornography negatively impacts sexual or relationship satisfaction via preference for porn‐like sex. In fact, it may bolster sexual satisfaction by promoting sexual variety. The data were consistent with a model in which pornography negatively, indirectly affects sexual and relationship satisfaction via masturbation frequency. Pornography use may have multiple opposing influences on sexual satisfaction.

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Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction

Cited by 106 publications

References 60 publications

Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction

Cyberpornography: Time Use, Perceived Addiction, Sexual Functioning, and Sexual Satisfaction

Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality

Pornography, preference for porn‐like sex, masturbation, and men's sexual and relationship satisfaction

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