Public-sex: viewer discourse on Deerborn’s ‘homemade’ gay porn

The Psychology of Mukbang Watching: A Scoping Review of the Academic and Non-academic Literature

“…This is in line with the extant literature. For instance, viewers have been reported to achieve vicarious satisfaction from viewing fetish-themed pornography movies (Brennan 2017). Vicarious viewing serves as a compensation of acts that an individual would never perform in real life and/or as a fulfilment of known experiences regarding the watched act via triggering a memory (Brennan 2017).…”

“…For instance, viewers have been reported to achieve vicarious satisfaction from viewing fetish-themed pornography movies (Brennan 2017). Vicarious viewing serves as a compensation of acts that an individual would never perform in real life and/or as a fulfilment of known experiences regarding the watched act via triggering a memory (Brennan 2017). Similarly, gaming has also been reported to be preferred as a leisure activity because it provides vicarious satisfaction of making the impossible appear possible (Lee et al 2016).…”

Problematic Mukbang Watching and Its Relationship to Disordered Eating and Internet Addiction: A Pilot Study Among Emerging Adult Mukbang Watchers

“…As noted above, one of the prominent gratifications obtained from mukbang watching is "vicarious eating." Watching mukbang enables viewers to satisfy their food cravings, experience the feeling of binge eating themselves, and experiencing vicarious satiation via visual and audio stimulation from the mukbangers themselves (Choe 2019;Gillespie 2019), all of which could serve as compensation for acts that an individual avoids performing in real life and/or as a fulfillment of known experiences regarding the watched act by triggering specific memories (Brennan 2017). However, given that maladaptive coping exacerbates negative emotions and mitigates positive emotions and wellbeing (Folkman and Lazarus 1988), watching mukbang as a maladaptive coping strategy to deal with real-life eating urges may also result in adverse consequences.…”

Mukbang and Me: Implications on Cognition and Physical Well-Being among Undergraduates

“…Here the participant did not realise they were eating their food unconsciously in a tremendous amount. According to Choe and Gillespie (2019), mukbanger watches mukbang to satisfy their food craving, and mukbanger also watches mukbang because they cannot perform it in real life (Brennan, 2017) Addicting in watching mukbang is correlated with social interaction. According to Kuss and Griffiths (2012b), those who formed or made new friends through online platforms have higher rates of being addicted to using online platforms than those who did not.…”