Citation

Brem MJ, Garner AR, Grigorian H, Florimbio AR, Wolford-Clevenger C, Shorey RC, Stuart GL. J. Interpers. Violence 2018; ePub(ePub): 886260518812806.

Affiliation

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260518812806

PMID

30461344

Abstract

Recent decades witnessed a surge in pornography use, contributing to what some researchers referred to as problematic pornography use (PPU; excessive, compulsive, and uncontrollable pornography use). Informed by cognitive scripts theory, cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental research spanning several decades documented a positive association between men's pornography use and physical and sexual violence perpetration. However, there is a paucity of research investigating pornography use broadly, and PPU specifically, among men who perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV). The present cross-sectional study investigated the association between self-reported PPU and physical and sexual IPV perpetration among 273 men in batterer intervention programs. After accounting for psychiatric symptomology and substance use and problems, results revealed a positive association between PPU and both physical and sexual IPV perpetration.

FINDINGS highlighted the need for continued investigation of the function of pornography use for violent men, particularly as it relates to physical and sexual IPV perpetration.

Language: en

Keywords

batterers; domestic violence; media and violence; sexual assault