Menschen, die eine problematische Pornografie -Verwendung erleben, neigen dazu, sich auch wiederholte negative Denkmuster zu verwirklichen, die als Wiederkäuen bekannt sind. Im Laufe der Zeit scheint diese Beziehung ein Zwei-Wege zu sein, insbesondere bei Frauen.
New study finds two-way connection between rumination and problematic pornography use
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2025.2544208
From the linked article:
A new study published in The Journal of Sex Research provides evidence that **people who experience problematic pornography use tend to also engage in repetitive negative thinking patterns known as rumination. Over time, this relationship appears to be two-way, especially among women**. The findings suggest that patterns of thinking and behavior are deeply connected, particularly in the context of distress related to sexual behavior.
In the short term, people who scored higher on problematic pornography use also scored higher on both brooding and reflective rumination. This was true for both men and women. These cross-sectional findings suggest that individuals who feel distressed by their pornography use tend to also report higher levels of repetitive negative thinking, whether it’s focused on self-criticism or problem-solving.
Over the course of a year, higher levels of problematic pornography use at the beginning of the study predicted increased levels of both brooding and reflection later on. This pattern held true for both men and women. The findings provide support for the idea that distress caused by problematic pornography use may lead people to engage more frequently in rumination over time.
However, the reverse relationship—whether rumination predicted future pornography use—differed by gender and by the type of rumination.
This has become a big problem for me in recent weeks as I try to re-wire my brain from another dopamine addiction (constantly texting people instead of putting my phone down and living my life). But I can readily admit that the problematic behavior is fully to escape my rumination. Advice I’ve been seeing to stop rumination is to get outside and do something else to take my mind off of it, and sometimes I default to… well, yeah.
So I fully see the causation as trying to avoid rumination for myself.
I think if you flip this, it makes more sense: People who have excessive rumination, tend to do whatever it takes to take the edge off the pain.
This tracts with studies which show that Problemic porn use is more correlated with guilt than with porn use frequency. Especially in women, because even the most secular woman has been taught that any visual representation of women in sex, and even private sex acts such as oral and anal sex, should be considered degrading even if they are normal parts of human sexuality.