Consuming pornography can lead to improved sexual satisfaction—or it can be detrimental to it, as different content types are associated with different outcomes.
Consuming pornography can lead to improved sexual satisfaction—or it can be detrimental to it, as different content types are associated with different outcomes.
That’s what’s revealed in a new study by Université de Montréal psychology professor Beáta Bőthe, published in February in The Journal of Sex Research.
She and her colleagues looked at how viewing different types of pornographic content—group sex, passion-and-romance, gender-bending, taboo-transgression and forbidden sex, power-, control- and rough-sex—affected sexual satisfaction among young adults.
Among those aged 17 to 30, the use of passionate and romantic pornography was associated with greater sexual satisfaction, while the use of power, control and rough sex pornography was associated with lower sexual satisfaction.
