Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations

@article{Sun2016PornographyAT,
  title={Pornography and the Male Sexual Script: An Analysis of Consumption and Sexual Relations},
  author={Chyng Sun and Ana J. Bridges and Jennifer Anne Johnson and Matthew B. Ezzell},
  journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior},
  year={2016},
  volume={45},
  pages={983-994},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:20239480}
}
It is argued that pornography provides a powerful heuristic model which is implicated in men’s expectations and behaviors during sexual encounters, and higher pornography use was negatively associated with enjoying sexually intimate behaviors with a partner.
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