Erwachsene Männer, die Pornografie konsumieren, berichten von einer schlechteren sexuellen Funktion und einer geringeren Gesamtzufriedenheit in ihrem Intimleben im Vergleich zu Frauen, die ähnliches Material ansehen.
Men who consume pornography report lower sexual satisfaction than female viewers
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Or maybe men who are not satisfied with their sex lives watch more porn?
Can you compare them to men that don’t watch porn?
I don’t know, I watch a lot of porn, was even the assistant manager of a large adult store, and my wife and I seem to have a very fulfilling sex life.
I just like sex and sexy things and being around that stuff.
It seems as if they are trying to push forward a „sexual scripts“ point, which I’m just not sure of. This was a review of data and seems to only account for „satisfaction with relationships with a partner“, and not, „are you having relationships“.
„Similar material“ maybe is a bit inaccurate.
From how it’s being described, there are significant differences in the material being viewed, and that difference is very correlated with the different outcomes.
I’d say this tracks considering the barriers to performing on a physical level are more conditional for men with being able to get an erection.
Becoming overly dependent on porn will definitely affect the stimuli you need to get turned on. This happened to me and quite a few others I’ve discussed with.
When you watch videos of new Porsches and then go out to drive your ’87 Camry, you are similarly disappointed.
>similar material
I strongly doubt that the researchers actually checked to see if the men and women in the study were viewing *similar* pornography. What this phrase is probably intended to mean is „similarly prurient material“. But the pornography targeted to women is different from that targeted to men.
More generally, quantitative research on porn is still largely at a level of treating all pornography as equivalent, while the qualitative theories of pornography’s effects on mental health and sexual behavior are usually concerned with the content in more detail.
Can’t help but wonder if this is just a roundabout way of being linked to the Male Refractory Period as well? If men had no refractory period, I wonder what the result of this study would be.
So, scientifically, more women need to watch porn with men?
*sigh* Here we go again.
Perhaps cause & effect are reversed.
This really seems like a chicken anc egg thing. It’s framed as „men who watchesd more pornography had higher rates of sexual dysfunction“ but not „men with higher rates of sexual dysfunction viewed more pornography“
No mention of how frequently the men who looked at porn wee having sex.
If the men were using porn as a substitute for sex, it’s not surprising they were unhappy, regardless of how frequently they used porn.
I think this comparison warrants further study, but imo it has to do with women having better coping mechanisms when losing out on their preferences regarding overall satisfaction.
Function is hard to measure for women as well.
>The research team suggests these results might relate to the concept of
“sexual scripts,” which are internal cognitive frameworks that guide a
person’s expectations of intimacy. Through their viewing habits, women
might be expanding their sexual scripts and learning new behaviors to
incorporate into their partnered sex lives. In contrast, men who
frequently view explicit material might develop strict preferences for
highly specific onscreen scenarios.
i get this is the srticle write-up, but that might is doing a lot if work. why would women not develop such narrow preferences as men?
I want to see a cross-correlation study based on age and various hormone concentration levels. Something tells me that the study is biased by assuming that most men actually understand sexual health.
If you don’t know what’s happening to your body „naturally“, you’re always going to be unsatisfied.
First a correlation must be established and then further fleshed out, and then the cause/effect might be identified. I suspect they share a dynamic relationship, where one feeds into another. When I consider the effect over years, I ask myself: does consumption of pornography guide the consumer to a more fulfilling intimate relationship with their partner or does it create a “treading water” dynamic which eventually leaves at least one partner feeling exhausted? I know which answer intuitively feels correct, but I’d like more data
Some of the studies included people who had viewed explicitly material in the past year, others daily. That’s a significant difference too
I’d be curious, chicken or egg. Is it that men who are less satisfied with their intimate life watch more porn?
I used to watch a lot of porn — I still do — but I used to, too.
Amazing that men – or anyone – would “consume pornography”
From personal experience, as a 62M, the few times I got curious about to watch some, it always seemed like a fake medical procedure of some sort!
In my twenties and later, I remember thinking how weird and uncomfortable the positions seemed.
Just saying, for what it’s worth
This was a meta-study (study of existing literature) so that comes with some pretty massive limitations. In addition to what counts as „similar material“ as others are pointing out, I wonder how many of these studies control for age. Middle aged men are past their sexual peak while middle-aged women are just entering theirs. A middle aged man who masturbates to porn on a given day will likely have reduced sexual interest and pleasure if trying to engage in sex that same day. Middle aged women are less likely to experience this.
I’m using middle-age, but that would manifest across a continuum according to age. So I’d take this meta-study with a giant grain of salt.
Porn addiction needs to be officially acknowledged as a real condition both medically and legally.
I mean this is pretty similar to any other desensitizing activity out there. Not to mention once you are exposed to different things you inevitably evolve your taste and options. Similar to foods for example. So ‘just bread’ is no longer something you seek to consume.
Pornhub statistics show that men and women consume surprisingly similar content. The top ten categories for each gender have substantial overlap.
Expectations vs reality
There is a known phenomenon that affects men who masturbate frequently. This is well documented and you can look it up. The more frequently you masturbate, the less sensitive the penis becomes. This means that it starts to take longer to cum from masturbation, and it makes cumming from regular sex very difficult. Of course your mileage may vary, but in general this is true.
The source study states “high heterogeneity, reliance on self-reported measures, and limited longitudinal evidence restrict causal inference and generalizability”
It then goes on to say that findings warrant additional study. There is no clear determination made in the paper.
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Was this study done in a vacuum where only porn was considered as the sole contributor to sexual satisfaction and function?
I think the main issue is the difference in use reasons. Men start out using it as a cope/alternative to not getting laid, but if that dissatisfaction continues, porn and sexual gratification become more vain and more of a matter of getting a dopamine hit and not so much about sex.
Is this because male sexual function usually involves getting and maintaining an erection?
So.. does this imply that porn distribution inadvertantly reduces our reproduction and population?
Now do men who read Dickens and Nicholas Sparks vs women who read minotaur smut and 50 Shades.