The scenes are fake, but the impact is real.
Porn may help men get in the mood — but it may have long-lasting consequences on their relationships.
Men
who watch pornography several days a week or more depend on it more for
arousal but enjoy sex less in real life, according to a new report in
the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Ana Bridges, an associate
professor of psychology at the University of Arkansas, and her
colleagues studied 487 male college students. They found that how often
men watched porn correlated directly with how much they wanted to act
out scenes they'd seen. The more they watched, the more they relied on
pornographic fantasies in the bedroom as well.
"Pornography is
sometimes dismissed, celebrated or problematized as fantasy," Bridges
wrote. "[B]ut pornography is also much more. What happens on the screen
may implicate life off of it."
Bridges also said in her study
that most of porn focused on "acts of violence and degradation toward
women," neglecting tender touches, kissing, laughing and verbal
compliments.
Patrick A. Trueman, president of Morality in Media,
said that porn is "a public health crisis" that government and society
need to address. |
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