A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany: A Combination of Web Tracking and Survey Data Analysis.
Arch Sex Behav
; 52(8): 3491-3503, 2023 11.
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ABSTRACT
Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel (N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts In the first part, we looked at group differences (gender and age) in tracked OPU. Overall, this part's results confirm questionnaire-based research findings regarding sex and age differences. In the second part of our study, we combined the web tracking data with data from an online survey which was answered by a subset of the tracking participants (n = 1315) to assess the relevance of various predictors of OPU that have been identified in previous research. Again, our results mostly echoed previous findings based on self-reports. Online pornography was used more by males and younger individuals, while relationship status, sexist attitudes, and social dominance orientation were not associated with OPU. However, we did find differences in OPU between members of different religious communities. Our study confirms some critical findings on OPU from previous questionnaire-based research while extending existing research by providing a more fine-grained analysis of usage patterns based on web tracking data.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Conducta Sexual
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Literatura Erótica
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Arch Sex Behav
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania