How sexual behaviors mediate between pornography use and relationship outcomes among heterosexuals

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Authors

Carson Dover¹ , Brian Willoughby¹

1. Brigham Young University

Conference / event

Annual Conference for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, November 2023 (Vancouver, Canada)

Poster summary

Pornography use has been consistently shown to be linked with relationship outcomes. Other research has shown that pornography use may be associated with engaging in various sexual behaviors. Using a Structural Equation Model, our results showed that sexual behaviors (especially anal sex) are an important mediator to consider between pornography use and relationship outcomes.

Keywords

Pornography, Relationship outcomes, Sexual behaviors, Structural equation model

Research areas

Humanities and Social Sciences, Statistics

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2023 Dover et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.