Excerpts: About a quarter of men and 12% of women reported probable PPU [Problematic Porn Use]. The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between PPU and psychopathological symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, loneliness), and their interactions with sexual behavior frequencies (i.e., masturbation and pornography use). [Finally!] In addition to analyses focusing on […]
Excerpt: Greater pornography exposure was associated with significantly higher levels of sexually dominant behavior and higher levels of sexually dominant behavior were associated with significantly lower levels of partnered sexual satisfaction. Arch Sex Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03297-x Paul J. Wright, Debby Herbenick & Robert S. Tokunaga Abstract The World Association for Sexual Health has identified sexual satisfaction as an […]
The UK government announced at the start of November plans to make pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation illegal. Kirsty Blake Knox looks at how it moved from porn to real lives and the dangers of strangulation Young people with limited sexual experience have a distorted view of what sex should look like after watching extreme […]
Excerpt: Depictions of aggression in the most viewed videos have not been stable over time, with rates of aggression nearly tripling between the first and last decades of the analysis. Journal of Sex Research Eran Shor, Xuanchi Liu, 2025 Oct 9:1-13. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2025.2565660. Abstract Over the last two decades, a large body of literature has […]
The long-awaited French translation of YBOP is now available. Tell your francophone friends who might be interested. It can be purchased here (France) and here (Québec). Désormais, 100 % des hommes ont consommé de la pornographie en ligne avant leur majorité, près des deux tiers ayant commencé à 13 ans ou moins ; le phénomène […]
It’s No Nut November, guys, you know what that means… There’s a big old discussion about pornography in the UK right now. Earlier this year, the British government pledged to ban the depiction of a ‘dangerous’ sex act which is commonly featured in online pornography – choking – and yesterday (November 3), this restriction was […]
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LADbible’s For F*ck Sake report has yielded some interesting results on how we engage with porn … LADbible surveyed over 5,300 18-28 year olds to understand how we all engage with porn, how it makes us feel and how it’s affecting our lives. And we’ve made some seriously eye-opening discoveries. … Porn can get in […]
There is a new tax in Alabama that applies to pornographic websites and is intended to offset some of the harm the bill’s sponsor said is caused by children’s exposure to porn. Alabama lawmakers passed the tax as part of a new law that requires adult websites to verify that users are at least 18 […]
The number of people accessing prominent pornography websites in the United Kingdom has plummeted after new age-verification laws — that are also heading to Australia — were introduced earlier this year. Since July, people in the UK wanting to view pornography online must prove they are over 18 by uploading identity documents, sharing credit card […]
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Excerpt: Significant differences in sexual self-concept were found between [Canadian] adolescents who had and had not used pornography, with gender-specific effects. Among those who had used pornography, higher pornography-related sexual expectancies were associated with higher sexual anxiety and lower body-esteem, while higher generalizations were associated with lower sexual self-efficacy. Archives of Sexual Behavior Judith […]