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A Re‑evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany: A Combination of Web Tracking and Survey Data Analysis
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Abstract Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale Germ... view more
Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel (N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts: In the first part, we looked at group differences (gender and age) in tracked OPU. Overall, this part's results confirm questionnaire-based research findings regarding sex and age differences. In the second part of our study, we combined the web tracking data with data from an online survey which was answered by a subset of the tracking participants (n = 1315) to assess the relevance of various predictors of OPU that have been identified in previous research. Again, our results mostly echoed previous findings based on self-reports. Online pornography was used more by males and younger individuals, while relationship status, sexist attitudes, and social dominance orientation were not associated with OPU. However, we did find differences in OPU between members of different religious communities. Our study confirms some critical findings on OPU from previous questionnaire-based research while extending existing research by providing a more fine-grained analysis of usage patterns based on web tracking data.... view less
Keywords
pornography; online media; utilization; religiousness; religious affiliation; sexism; gender-specific factors; demographic factors; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
web tracking data; social dominance orientation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Journal
Archives of Sexual Behavior (2023)
ISSN
1573-2800
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed