>>4760
>Attention to attractive alternatives can be detrimental to relationships. With the growth of the pornography industry, it is important to consider the effects this material has on relationships. Our research suggests a powerful association between pornography consumption and increased attractiveness of alternative partners---an association that has direct implications for intimate extradyadic behavior.
http://www.fincham.info/papers/2013pornalternativesextrabehaviorsppsfinal.pdf
>Our hypothesis was supported as pornography consumption predicted greater infidelity, as assessed by hooking up and as assessed in a more general manner. Furthermore, commitment mediated the relationship between pornography consumption and both hooking up and infidelity and the relationship between pornography consumption and commitment was mediated by hooking up and infidelity. Thus, it appears that pornography consumption is not only related to weakened commitment in relationships, but that there are high-risk, behavioral consequences to the decreased commitment associated with pornography consumption.
http://www.fincham.info/papers/2012-porn.pdf
>Recent research suggests that this flood of visual stimulation may amplify men’s evolved drive for casual sex. In a recent study, for example, Wright found that men who use porn are more likely to have multiple partners and extramarital sex.
>“Is it just that people who like casual sex gravitate to pornography? I didn’t find that to be the case in a follow-up study,” says Wright. “Viewing pornography was associated with increases in casual sex, but the reverse wasn't true---casual sex didn't predict pornography use.”
>Wright’s findings are in line with what psychologists call “sexual script theory,” the widely studied notion that what we watch becomes our definition and even our expectation of normal sex.
>Think of it as an internal rehearsal: “People look at other people as behavioral models, gaining an idea of how a specific sexual encounter is supposed to go---‘that is what I need to do to experience that kind of pleasure,’” says Elizabeth Morgan, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at Boise State University. “We don’t typically watch other people in the bedroom, so it’s often through sexually explicit media that these scripts are presented to us.”
>The natural reaction, says Bridges, is to assume immunity---that the depictions in porn may influence other people’s desires but not your own. “People consistently say, ‘It’s not going to affect me,’ about a number of things, including political persuasion and advertising,” says Bridges. “But we’re being impacted all the time by what we consume with our eyes and ears and brains. There’s no question.”
https://archive.fo/Tz9jA#selection-1731.0-1751.218
http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1864-1105/a000063?journalCode=zmp
I'll strawman all I want, buddy. You can't stop me.