Consumption of Pornography, Perceived Peer Norms, and Condomless Sex

Sexual scripts in pornography rarely include condoms. Many U.S. college students consume pornography and have unprotected sex. Yet no study appears to have investigated whether pornography consumption is correlated with having unprotected sex among U.S. college students. This article reports results...

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Published in:Health communication 2016-08, Vol.31 (8), p.954-963
Main Authors: Wright, Paul J., Tokunaga, Robert S., Kraus, Ashley
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College students
Colleges & universities
Condoms
Consumption
Erotica - psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Norms
Peer Group
Peers
Pornography
Pornography & obscenity
Safe sexual practices
Scripts
Sex
Sexual Behavior - psychology
Students
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Undergraduate students
Universities
Unsafe Sex
Young Adult
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Summary:Sexual scripts in pornography rarely include condoms. Many U.S. college students consume pornography and have unprotected sex. Yet no study appears to have investigated whether pornography consumption is correlated with having unprotected sex among U.S. college students. This article reports results from two studies of pornography consumption and condomless sex among U.S. college students. Pornography consumption was directly associated with a higher likelihood of condomless sex in study 1. This finding was replicated in study 2. Study 2 also explored whether perceptions of peers' use of condoms partially mediates the association between pornography consumption and condomless sex. Pornography consumption was associated with lower estimations of peers' condom use, and lower estimations of peers' condom use were associated with personally engaging in condomless sex.
ISSN:1041-0236
1532-7027
DOI:10.1080/10410236.2015.1022936