porn
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Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don't A Systematic Review
In the last few years, there has been a wave of articles related to behavioral addictions; some of them have a focus on online pornography addiction. However, despite all efforts, we are still unable to profile when engaging in this behavior becomes pathological. Common problems include: sample bias, the search for diagnostic instrumentals, opposing approximations to the matter, and the fact that this entity may be encompassed inside a greater pathology (i.e. sex addiction) that may present itself with very diverse symptomatology. Behavioral addictions form a largely unexplored field of study, and usually exhibit a problematic consumption model: loss of control, impairment, and risky use. Hypersexual disorder fits this model and may be composed of several sexual behaviors, like problematic use of online pornography (POPU) Online pornography use is on the rise, with a potential for addiction considering the "triple A" influence (accessibility, affordability, anonymity) This problematic use might have adverse effects in sexual development and sexual functioning, especially among the young population. We aim to gather existing knowledge on problematic online pornography use as a pathological entity. Here we try to summarize what we know about this entity and outline some areas worthy of further research.
Journal of clinical medicine
Ruben de Alarcon Javier I de la Iglesia Nerea M Casado Angel L Montejo
58636423
Toward a Model of Porn Literacy: Core Concepts, Rationales, and Approaches
Although some positive outcomes for pornography engagement have been highlighted, researchers and educators have also expressed concerns about youth pornography engagement and have called for porn literacy education to be incorporated into sex education programs. As yet, there is lack of agreement regarding intervention development. This study aimed to engage participants in the identification of relevant curriculum content. Participatory methods of data collection were used with 54 young adults aged 18 to 29 to generate core concepts for porn literacy education, and these concepts were subsequently explored in group interviews. Findings suggest that the proposed learning outcomes should focus on reducing shame regarding pornography engagement and improving critical thinking skills regarding the following sexual health topics: body image comparisons and dissatisfaction; sexual and gender based violence; fetishising of gay and transgender communities; and setting unrealistic standards for sex. Methods of engagement for porn literacy, gendered differences, and important findings that are specific to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, plus (LGBT+ persons are discussed, and recommendations regarding future research and intervention development are outlined.
Journal of sex research
Kate Dawson Saoirse Nic Gabhainn Padraig Macneela
115131462
Stealthy Porn: Understanding Real World Adversarial Images for Illicit Online Promotion
Recent years have witnessed the rapid progress in deep learning (DP) which also brings their potential weaknesses to the spotlights of security and machine learning studies. With important discoveries made by adversarial learning research, surprisingly little attention, however, has been paid to the real world adversarial techniques deployed by the cybercriminal to evade image based detection. Unlike the adversarial examples that induce misclassification using nearly imperceivable perturbation, real world adversarial images tend to be less optimal yet equally effective. As a first step to understand the threat, we report in the paper a study on adversarial promotional porn images (APPIs) that are extensively used in underground advertising. We show that the adversary today's strategically constructs the APPIs to evade explicit content detection while still preserving their sexual appeal, even though the distortions and noise introduced are clearly observable to humans. To understand such real world adversarial images and the underground business behind them, we develop a novel DP based methodology called Male`na, which focuses on the regions of an image where sexual content is least obfuscated and therefore visible to the target audience of a promotion. Using this technique, we have discovered over 4,000 APPIs from 4,042,690 images crawled from popular social media, and further brought to light the unique techniques they use to evade popular explicit content detectors (e.g. Google Cloud Vision API, Yahoo Open NSFW model) and the reason that these techniques work. Also studied are the ecosystem of such illicit promotions, including the obfuscated contacts advertised through those images, compromised accounts used to disseminate them, and large APPI campaigns involving thousands of images. Another interesting finding is the apparent attempt made by cybercriminals to steal others' images for their advertising. The study highlights the importance of the research on real world adversarial learning and makes the first step towards mitigating the threats it poses.
2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Kan Yuan Di Tang Xiaojing Liao Xiaofeng Wang Xuan Feng Yi Chen Menghan Sun Haoran Lu Kehuan Zhang
151269401
Pornography, preference for porn like sex, masturbation, and men's sexual and relationship satisfaction
Pornography use, preference for "porn like" sex, masturbation, and sexual and relationship satisfaction were assessed among two samples of men (NStudy 1 326, NStudy 2 335) Frequent pornography use was associated with sexual dissatisfaction, greater preference for porn like sex, and more frequent masturbation in both studies. Pornography use was associated with relationship dissatisfaction in Study 2 only. The data did not support the notion that pornography negatively impacts sexual or relationship satisfaction via preference for porn like sex. In fact, it may bolster sexual satisfaction by promoting sexual variety. The data were consistent with a model in which pornography negatively, indirectly affects sexual and relationship satisfaction via masturbation frequency. Pornography use may have multiple opposing influences on sexual satisfaction.
Personal Relationships
Kerry McBain Wendy Wen Li Peter T F Raggatt
150286798
Gendered Public Support for Criminalizing "Revenge Porn"
Many states have criminalized "revenge porn," an increasingly common form of online sexual abuse. Yet, we know little regarding attitudes toward these laws. Through an original survey of nearly 500 U.S. residents, we find widespread public support for criminalization, but support varies by respondent's self identified gender and revenge porn type. Women favor criminalization more than men, but support falls among women and men when the subject created the media, colloquially known as "selfies" or "noodz." Results suggest that women expressing their sexuality are deemed less deserving of protection, reinforcing feminist legal critiques of criminal law as insufficient to prevent sexual abuse.
Sarah Esther Lageson Suzy Mcelrath Krissinda Ellen Palmer
182885516
Nudes are Forever: Judicial Interpretations of Digital Technology's Impact on "Revenge Porn"
Abstract In this article I explore judicial interpretations of the relationship between digital technology and non consensual intimate image distribution (NCIID) (i.e. "revenge porn" Drawing on my analysis of forty nine Canadian cases of NCIID, I show that judicial interpretations of digital technology have important influences on how NCIID is understood and responded to in the law. I find that the majority of judges perceive digital technology as making NCIID easier to commit with the simple "click of a mouse" and as increasing the amount of harm caused by this act as digital nude/sexual photos are seen as lasting "forever" and thus as resulting in ongoing and immeasurable harm to victims. These perceptions have substantive impacts on legal rationales and sentencing decisions, with the affordances of digital technology regularly being treated as justifying harsher sentences to denounce and deter this act. Resume En me fondant sur la litterature existante, dans cet article, j'explore la maniere dont la relation entre la technologie numerique et la distribution non consensuelle d'images intimes (DNCII) (c. a d. pornodivulgation) a ete comprise dans la jurisprudence canadienne. En m'appuyant sur mon analyse de quarante neuf decisions canadiennes en matiere de DNCII, je montre que les interpretations judiciaires de la technologie numerique influencent largement la facon dont la DNCII est comprise et traitee dans la loi. Je conclus que la majorite des juges percoivent la technologie numerique comme facilitant la perpetration d'infractions de DNCII et egalement comme amplifiant les torts causes par ces actes. Ces perceptions ont des incidences substantielles sur les raisonnements juridiques et sur le processus de determination de la peine, les moyens de la technologie numerique etant regulierement utilises afin de justifier des peines plus severes, et ce, dans une optique de dissuasion et de denonciation de cet acte.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society Revue Canadienne Droit et Societe
Alexa Dodge
158593498
Delivering (up) a copyright based remedy for revenge porn
Despite recent progress in terms of the legal response to the problem of what is colloquially termed 'revenge porn' victims continue to face difficulties when seeking the removal of their private sexual images from third party websites. While victims who are able to assert authorship and hence copyright ownership of these images can rely on the notice and takedown provisions found in the copyright laws of many jurisdictions to compel their removal, victims who are unable to make such claims are left without a similar remedy. However, current proposals for victims to be recognized as the joint authors of such images, or to be granted a new exclusive right to prevent their distribution, would disrupt fundamental copyright principles in a manner disproportionate to their underlying aims. This article puts forward an alternative solution, drawing inspiration from the recent settlement in Chambers v DCR: where a claimant has succeeded in obtaining injunctive relief against a defendant on the basis of the non consensual distribution of the claimant's private sexual images, a court may make a further order directing the defendant to assign any copyright they may have in the images to the claimant. This would function in a manner akin to the well established remedy of delivery up.
Yin Harn Lee
210558785
Neuro physiological porn addiction detection using machine learning approach
Pornography is a portrayal of sexual subject contents for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal that can lead to addiction. The availability and easy accessibility of the Internet connectivity have created unprecedented opportunities for sexual education, learning, and growth for adolescences to be in the rise. Hence, the risk of porn addiction developed by teenagers has also increased due to highly prevalent porn consumption. To date, the only available means of detecting porn addiction is through questionnaire. However, while answering the questions, participants may suppress or exaggerate their answers because porn addiction is considered taboo in the community. Hence, the purpose of this project is to develop an engine with multiple classifiers to recognize porn addiction using electroencephalography (EEG) signals and to compare classifiers performance. In the experimental study, the neuro physiological signals of EEG data were collected previously in Indonesia among students age 9 to 13 years old by researchers from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) The EEG data were pre processed, and relevant features are extracted using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) Then, the features are classified to produce the outputs of valance and arousal. Subsequently, three different classifiers of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Naive Bayesian (NB) and Random Forest (RF) are employed to determine whether the participant is a porn addict or otherwise. The experimental results show that the MLP classifier yields slightly better accuracy compared to Naive Bayes and Random Forest classifiers making the MLP classifier preferable for porn addiction recognition. Although this work is still at infancy stage, it is envisaged for the work to be expanded for comprehensive porn addiction recognition system so that early intervention and appropriate support can be given for the teenagers with pornography addiction problem.
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Norhaslinda Kamaruddin Abdul Wahab Yasmeen Rozaidi
149528233
Gay porn networks
Gay porn networks offer audiences diverse pornographies under a single offering. This article considers how specialist, online gay pornographic sites are made viable via networks, providing an overview of the 10 most popular gay porn networks currently in operation, and making connections between them via qualitative reading. By recognizing the potential for alternative pornographies within these networks, yet not reifying gay porn networks to the production of solely non mainstream offerings, the article invites a more nuanced assessment of the complexity of the online gay porn commercial environment. Encompassing a total of 50 sites across 10 networks, the study's broad approach allows for an overview of the most successful networks currently available, with a particular emphasis on branded identity, themes and the construction of studio vs network identities.
Joseph Brennan
31961058
Unbuckling the Bible Belt: A State Level Analysis of Religious Factors and Google Searches for Porn
While the link between individual religious characteristics and pornography consumption is well established, relatively little research has considered how the wider religious context may influence pornography use. Exceptions in the literature to date have relied on relatively broad, subjective measures of religious commitment, largely ignoring issues of religious belonging, belief, or practice. This study moves the conversation forward by examining how a variety of state level religious factors predict Google searches for the term porn, net of relevant sociodemog raphic and ideological controls. Our multivariate findings indicate that higher percentages of Evangelical Protestants, theists, and biblical literalists in a state predict higher frequencies of searching for porn, as do higher church attendance rates. Conversely, higher percentages of religiously unaffiliated persons in a state predict lower frequencies of searching for porn. Higher percentages of total religious adherents, Catholics, or mainline Protestants in a state are unrelated to searching for porn with controls in place. Contrary to recent research, our analyses also show that higher percentages of political conservatives in a state predicted lower frequencies of porn searches. Our findings support theories that more salient, traditional religious influences in a state may influence residents whether religious or not toward more covert sexual experiences.
Journal of sex research
Andrew L Whitehead Samuel L Perry