Citation

Seida K, Shor E. J. Sex Res. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, McGill University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality)

DOI

10.1080/00224499.2019.1696275

PMID

31809207

Abstract

Existing research on aggression in online pornography is almost exclusively based on pornography featuring heterosexual sex. Pornography featuring sex between two men or between two women has received comparatively little scholarly attention, despite its growing industry presence and revenue. To our knowledge, no study has focused on comparing the aggressive content of different-sex and same-sex mainstream online pornography. To address this gap, we utilized a sample of 210 popular videos uploaded to Pornhub over the last decade. This sample consisted of three major categories: "gay" (male/male; n = 70), "lesbian" (female/female; n = 70), and "most-watched of all time" (male/female; n = 70). Our findings show that there are both more displays of aggression and more displays of affection and pleasure in same-sex online pornographic videos, relative to different-sex videos. We discuss the relevance and limits of dominant sexual and gender scripts when analyzing across subgenres of mainstream online pornography.

Language: en

Keywords

Pornography; aggression; content analysis; heterosexual; online; pleasure; same-sex