Now that we have mapped out a range of influencing factors on harmful attitudes and behaviours, we’d like to focus on the role of pornography. By pornography, we are specifically referring to any media (including: internet, books, videos, magazines etc.) intended to sexually arouse consumers through the depiction of nudity or explicit sexual behaviour. We are primarily interested in legal pornography - so not things like child pornography - but we are interested to hear your perspective on the influence of different types of porn.

from your experience, have you seen any connections between pornography and attitudes and behaviours relating to the objectification of women?de Alarcón, R., et al. (2019). Online porn addiction: What we know and what we don't — a systematic review. Medication: Sometimes a person uses pornography to cope with another condition. Medication may help treat the underlying issue.

For example, watching pornographic content, which is based on the premise that the women have not consented (rape pornography), is justified as acceptable to view as “they [the women in pornography] are over the age of consent and so they must have wanted to do all of this”. [footnote 30] This sense of detachment was understood as facilitating a compartmentalisation of attitudes and behaviours; the understanding that what one does or says in a certain aspect of their life - namely what they view and how they behave online - neither reflects nor has an impact on other areas of their life. Unrealistic expectations for sex: The expectation for or pursuit of specific sexual acts (where the desire to take part in these acts is not reciprocated by their partner): physical aggression during sex (including choking, slapping, hair-pulling); anal sex; group sex. for the purposes of this study we are only interested in adults and young people over the age of 16, not children Some psychotherapists in the sample referred to a heightened interest in sex during puberty that never falls away; rather it is a cognitive distortion and a cycle of behaviour, which is in part supported by their easy access to pornography. One Frontline Worker talked about clients masturbating 10 to 15 times a day. [footnote 42] Another talked about how pornography exacerbates this sexual preoccupation:

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that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry? Pornography is young people’s] main reference point for sex and there’s no conversation about consent […] Fake taxi videos are popular at the minute where a woman is seen getting into a cab and then she cannot pay so she gets raped [footnote 15] Male pleasure is all that matters