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Pornography Use and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Sexual Socialization

Findings from three studies that relied on the sexual script theory both conceptually and analytically point to an educational effect of pornography, which may increase sexual satisfaction among men as well as women by expanding their sexual repertoire. Whether the effect dissipates over time, possibly with pornography habituation, is currently unknown. The observed negative association between pornography- influenced sexual socialization and relationship intimacy does not seem to affect sexual satisfaction. A possible exception may be men with specific (paraphilic?) preferences in pornography, although it remains unclear whether it is their pornography use that negatively affects relationship intimacy or their specific sexual preferences that orient them toward particular pornographic materials and, at the same time, intensify problems with creating and/or maintaining intimacy that were already initiated by these men’s sexual taste. So far, the issue of a possible association between pornography use and sexual satisfaction has been only fragmentarily addressed. A number of questions – which importance increases as sexually explicit materials become ubiquitous and their use in the developed West culturally normalized – remain unanswered. Moralistic concerns which frequently permeate discussions about the role of pornography in society, as well as in individual lives, may continue to act as an obstacle to systematic research, particularly when involving young people.

pornography ; sexual socialization ; satisfaction

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