Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Author for correspondence: Nicolas Sommet, E-mail: nicolas. We examined whether young men and women differ in the relation between porn use and sexual performance sexual self-competence, sexual functioning, and partner-reported sexual satisfaction. The results revealed a twofold phenomenon.
Among men, a higher frequency of porn use wave 1 and increased porn use over time waves 1—3 were associated with lower levels of sexual self-competence, impaired sexual functioning, and decreased partner-reported sexual satisfaction. In contrast, among women, higher and increasing frequencies of porn use were associated with higher levels of sexual self-competence, improved sexual functioning, and enhanced partner-reported sexual satisfaction for some aspects.
The findings reveal the irony that porn — a male-dominated industry that targets a male-dominated audience — is associated with the erosion of the quality of men's sex lives and the improvement of women's sex lives. Key words: Fixed-effects regression, gender, pornography, sexual functioning, sexual satisfaction, sexual self-competence, sexuality.
Young men and women differ in their porn use habits. In this research, we further investigated porn-related gender differences by examining whether young men and women also differ in the relation between porn use and sexual performance. Sexual performance can be studied based on different conceptualizations and operationalizations depending on the perspective taken.
On the one hand, some authors have reported that porn use was associated with sexual performance concerns among young people, presumably because porn use sets unattainable standards of sexual comparison [e. In fact, porn not only raises sexual performance concerns among young people but can also be used to acquire knowledge about certain sexual techniques [e. Authors have suggested many possible moderators to account for the inconsistency in the relation between porn use and sexual performance-related outcomes e.
