Constructing a crisis: porn panics and public health

Webber, Valerie; Sullivan, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/23268743.2018.1434110

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“…Porn consumption is also alleged to damage relationships and family life (Manning ; Paul ; Perry ). Most recently, there have been claims that the United States (and elsewhere) are in the grips of a public health crisis due to the (supposed) ill effects of (online) porn consumption and porn addiction (Ley ; Webber and Sullivan ). This public health crisis narrative seems to be rooted in concerns about the volume of online pornography and shifting social attitudes toward pornography.…”

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EXPOsing Men's Gender Role Attitudes as Porn Superfans

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Much contemporary debate about pornography centers on its role in portraying and perpetuating gender inequality. This article compares traditional gendered attitudes between cisgender men attending the Adult Entertainment Expo (n = 294) and a random sample of male respondents from the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS), a U.S. representative survey of general attitudes and beliefs collected every two years (n = 863). Our survey borrowed questions from the GSS to measure attitudes about gender equality across four dimensions: (1) working mothers, (2) women in politics, (3) traditional gender roles in the family, and (4) affirmative action for women in the workplace. Through bivariate analyses, we found that “porn superfans” are no more sexist or misogynistic than the general U.S. public on two of the four measures (women in politics and women in the general workplace) and held more progressive gender‐role attitudes than the general public on the other two measures. We conducted binary logistic regressions for those two measures to determine if the relationship remained significant when controlling for other factors. For one dimension, working mothers, it did (p < .001). Our results call into question some of the claims that porn consumption fosters de facto negative and hostile attitudes toward women.

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“…However, digital media, along with accessfree sources and data available for people of every age and gender, can trigger several risks and dangers, which have been studied in various studies. One of the most important dangers of using Internet-based media is visiting and using porno websites, chatrooms, and pornographies, which are easily available [6]. During a research conducted in this regard, 79 million people have visited spam pornographic websites monthly, and according to a report of the "Center of the Safe Media for Families", mostly done by teenagers between the ages of 12 to 17 [7].…”

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“…Therefore, with a free access to the Internet data, people, especially teenagers, face a great risk. Thus, it is considered as the main public health crisis in countries like the U.S. because of its' importance and destructive effects [6].…”

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