Porn Is for Masturbation

@article{Prause2019PornIF,
  title={Porn Is for Masturbation},
  author={Nicole Prause},
  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},
  year={2019},
  volume={48},
  pages={2271 - 2277},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:73467018}
}
In their Target Article, Leonhardt, Spencer, Butler, and Theobald (2018) advance a structural model to explain seemingly disparate effects of visual sexual stimuli (VSS). They argue that the nature of VSS effects depends on relationship length and VSS content. Specifically, short-term partners are said to accrue benefits from VSS, such as increasing sexual breadth and increasing sexual desire/arousal in the moment, while long-term partners are said to suffer negative effects from VSS due to… 
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