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This study examined the independent and interactive effects of sexual explicitness and degrading themes toward women on mens' attitudes following exposure to video presentations of male-female interactions. Subjects were 83 male college students who viewed video vignettes under one of four stimulus conditions: (a) sexually explicit/degrading, (b) sexually explicit/nondegrading, (c) nonexplicit/degrading, and (d) nonexplicit/nondegrading. Results revealed that men exposed to degrading material, regardless of explicitness, were significantly more likely to express attitudes supportive of rape, while explicitness had no significant main or interactive effect on these attitudes. Further, the interaction of explicitness with degradation was found to impact scores on a measure of sexual callousness. Theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Hijab Pornography: A Content Analysis of Internet Pornographic Videos

“…Researchers have defined pornography in multitudinous ways ( Rea, 2001 ; Rose, 2013 ); however, common features may be identified. Many definitions, for example, emphasize that pornography depicts and increases violence against women ( DeKeseredy, 2020 ; Foubert, 2016 ; Weitzer, 2011 ), promulgates negative attitudes toward women ( Golde et al, 2000 ), objectifies women’s bodies ( Brecher, 2015 ), and is rife with degrading acts ( Gorman et al, 2010 ) as well as racist depictions ( Miller-Young, 2014 ; Zheng, 2017 ). However, these sorts of definitions are value-laden and use terms that are difficult to operationalize (e.g., degradation 2 ).…”