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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Online pornography"”.
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The impact of Self-Generated Images in online pornography
… and society, of Self-Generated Images (SGI’s) in online pornography. It presents an inquiry into the extent, and modes, of SGI use among a large sample of adult internet users. This form the initial platform for a theoretical analysis of the rapidly emerging topic, alongside an empirical …
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More than an "Unhappy Object": The Ethical, Relational and Pedagogical Possibilities of Talking with Young People about Pornography
Despite its ubiquity, online pornography has retained its status as an unhappy object (Ahmed, 2008) that is taken-for-granted as uniquely and inherently harmful for viewers, for participants, and for society in general. This is considered particularly true for young people, who are constructed as …
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The relationship between the practice of Christian spiritual disciplines and Internet pornography use among Christian college students
… of Christian spiritual disciplines and Internet pornography use among Christian male college students. The problem of Internet pornography use by Christians raises the question of why Christian men have such a seemingly low resistance to online pornography, when studies show that they can resist …
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Sexually explicit representations and their significance in late modern Western culture: A critical appraisal.
This work examines soft-core pornography, pornographic conventions in advertising, the representation of male sexuality in men's magazines and of female sexuality in popular media and subcultural forms. Specific instances are taken to investigate the applicability of widely used concepts such as …
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An Examination of Internet Pornography Usage Among Male Students at Evangelical Christian Colleges
<p>Internet pornography access among male students at Evangelical Christian colleges presents two dilemmas. First, Internet pornography access is institutionally prohibited based on a Biblical view of sexuality. The second dilemma is that individual students who choose to follow the teaching of …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
Are youths who consume pornography more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and …
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Modern technological environments and individual differences in attractiveness perceptions from physical characteristics
… ‘Coolidge-like’ effects observed in human men. Online environments facilitate access to many novel social, romantic, and sexual partners, potentially generating what social psychologists refer to as an ‘assessment mindset’, where a large pool of online dating options orient daters towards novel …