Associations between Croatian Adolescents’ Use of Sexually Explicit Material and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Latent Growth Curve Modeling Approach

Koletić, Goran; Štulhofer, Ariana; Tomić, Ivan; Čuča, Jadranka Knežević

doi:10.1080/19317611.2019.1567640

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“…A similar situation was found in users with 15 days or more of preventive social isolation, resulting in a higher consumption of the same types of online sexual material; internet pages, mobile chat applications, and social networks, the least frequent were video calls, video portals, online sex forums, and email. This result can be explained by the fact that in internet pages and social networks such as WhatsApp it is relatively easy to find sexually explicit audiovisual material that is shared among users, and so the potential reach of online sexual material and people is very high because with just a few clicks this information reaches anyone connected to one of these platforms (Koletić et al, 2019).…”

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“…In this vein, recent research on the use of online sexual material suggests that explicit sex viewing may be negatively related to risky sexual behavior, such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), incorrect and inconsistent condom use, multiple sexual partners, sexual activity with drug use, and early sexual debut (Eversole, Berglas, Deardorff, & Constantine, 2017;Hald, Kuyper, Adam, & de Wit, 2013;Hernández Torres, Benavides Torres, Onofre Rodríguez, & Jiménez Vázquez, 2018;Koletić, Štulhofer, Tomić, & Knežević Ćuća, 2019;Shallo & Mengesha, 2019).…”

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Impact of the use of sexual material and online sexual activity during preventive social isolation due to COVID-19

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Introduction. Preventive social isolation due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has represented one of the greatest health challenges of the last decades worldwide. As a result of social isolation, the consumption of information in digital media, such as the use of online sexual material, has increased, leading to risky sexual behavior in young people. Objective. To quantify the impact on the use and type of online sexual material and to determine the predictors of online sexual activity in people in preventive social isolation due to COVID-19. Method. Multivariate cross-sectional study; 385 participants were studied and contacted through an online survey. Results. Internet pages and social networks are the main platforms for the use of online sexual material, and its consumption was more frequent in those who had more days of preventive social isolation. Predictors of sexual activity were cybersex (β = .38), excitation (β = .36), masturbation (β = .34), and adventure (β = .33), which were found to be statistically significant (p ˂ .001). Discussion and conclusion. Privacy plays an important role in the use of online sexual material and activities, and greater consumption can be found in intimacy. It is important to be alert to the effects of the pandemic on sexual risk behavior and further research is needed.

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“…When controlling for an important psychological confounder such as risktaking propensity, adolescents reporting early and regular pornography use tended to initiate sexual activity earlier and indicated to have had nearly double the number of sexual partners compared to peers in a low pornography use trajectory. However, other investigations, among Croatian adolescents, starting from the same theoretical assumptions did not, or only to a limited extent, find effects of pornography use on sexual risk taking-no condom use when having sex, sex under the influence of drugs and alcohol, having multiple partners, etc., -or on enhancing permissive sexual attitudes, implying that porn's script activation and effects may be specific to the domain under study and the cultural context in which the study is undertaken (Koletić et al, 2019a(Koletić et al, , 2019bMatković et al, 2018).…”

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Pornography Use Profiles and the Emergence of Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence

Pirrone

Zondervan‐Zwijnenburg

Reitz

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Arch Sex Behav

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This research longitudinally explored adolescent pornography (porn) consumption and its association with sexual development in early and middle adolescence. A four-wave design with half-year intervals investigated pornography consumption and different (sexual) activities, such as masturbation, French kissing, petting, giving/receiving manual and oral sex, and intercourse, among 630 respondents (47.9% female, mean age 13.7 years; SD = 0.48) years at T1). A latent growth mixture analysis of pornography consumption revealed two groups with relatively low pornography (LP; 51.8% of the boys, 91.4% of the girls) versus high pornography (HP; 48.2% of the boys; 8.6% of the girls) consumption across time. At T1, HP boys on average watched pornography less than once a month, but more than once a year at T1. At T4, their average pornography use had increased to almost one to two times a week. LP boys never watched pornography at T1. At T4, their average pornography use was still less than once a year. At T1, HP girls never watched pornography, but consumption increased to almost one to three times a month at T4. Across waves of the study, LP girls (almost) never watched pornography. A discrete-time survival mixture analysis of sexual developmental patterning indicated that, compared to their LP peers, both girls and boys in the HP groups showed accelerated development of masturbation, petting, and receiving manual sex. Girls in the HP group were also more inclined to receive oral sex, whereas boys in the HP group also showed earlier and more frequent manual sex and intercourse. Thus, whereas the HP group of boys was substantially larger compared to that of girls, pornography consumption was related to accelerated development of sexual activities for both genders across early and middle adolescence. The discussion deliberates on pornography as a driving force in adolescent sexual development versus pornography as a medium of choice for sexually advanced adolescents.

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“…However, despite this difference in mean levels, perceived realism does not seem to differ between gender groups [ 27 , 54 ]. Some gender-specific findings were found regarding the associations of pornography use with sexuality-related attitudes and sexual behavior [ 16 , 28 , 54 , 55 ]. Moreover, evidence of a link between exposure to sexually explicit material and risky sexual behavior in terms of condom-less sex was found for sexual minority men [ 56 , 57 ].…”

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Links of Perceived Pornography Realism with Sexual Aggression via Sexual Scripts, Sexual Behavior, and Acceptance of Sexual Coercion: A Study with German University Students

Krahé

Tomaszewska

Schuster

2021

IJERPH

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Exposure to pornographic material has been linked to sexual aggression perpetration and victimization in a large body of research. Based on social learning theory and 3A theory of script learning, this study contributes to this research by testing the hypothesis that the more realistic pornography is perceived to be by young adults, the more likely they are to experience and engage in sexual aggression. Two underlying pathways were proposed: one path via scripts and patterns of sexual behavior regarding consensual sexual interactions that contain established risk factors for sexual aggression victimization and perpetration, and a second path via the acceptance of sexual coercion. In a cross-sectional study, 1181 university students in Germany (762 female; 419 male) completed measures of pornography use and perception, risky sexual scripts and sexual behavior, and acceptance of sexual coercion. As predicted, pornography realism was a positive predictor of risky sexual scripts, risky sexual behavior, and acceptance of sexual coercion. Indirect links with sexual aggression victimization and perpetration were found via both pathways. No gender differences in the associations were found. The implications for media literacy interventions addressing the realism of pornography are discussed.

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Associations between Croatian Adolescents’ Use of Sexually Explicit Material and Risky Sexual Behavior: A Latent Growth Curve Modeling Approach

Cited by 14 publications

References 55 publications

Impact of the use of sexual material and online sexual activity during preventive social isolation due to COVID-19

Impact of the use of sexual material and online sexual activity during preventive social isolation due to COVID-19

Pornography Use Profiles and the Emergence of Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence

Links of Perceived Pornography Realism with Sexual Aggression via Sexual Scripts, Sexual Behavior, and Acceptance of Sexual Coercion: A Study with German University Students

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