Americans are concerned about the problem of pornography (The term "pornography" is used herein to refer to sexually explicit media without any pejorative meaning necessarily intended. Terms such as "violent pornography" and "sexually violent media" are used to refer to media that combine sexual and violent content. We also sometimes use the term "sexually violent media" to refer to materials t...

Over recent years, offences related to the production, possession and distribution of child pornography have assumed great prominence. Public attention has focused on these crimes as being particularly repellent and deserving of both proactive policing and, when detected, full and extensive investigation. Increased awareness of the problem of child pornography has been associated with a paralle...

BACKGROUND There is an ongoing debate on whether consumers of child pornography pose a risk for hands-on sex offenses. Up until now, there have been very few studies which have analyzed the association between the consumption of child pornography and the subsequent perpetration of hands-on sex offenses. The aim of this study was to examine the recidivism rates for hands-on and hands-off sex off...

A robust skin detector is the primary need of many fields of computer vision, including face detection, gesture recognition, and pornography filtering. Less than 10 years ago, the first paper on automatic pornography filtering was published. Since then, different researchers claim different color spaces to be the best choice for skin detection in pornography filtering. Unfortunately, no com...

In this article we make use of inclusive masculinity theory to explore online media representations of male homosexuality and masculinity within the increasingly popular combat sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). Adopting a case-study approach, we discuss narratives constructed around one aspirational male MMA fighter, Dakota Cochrane, whose history of having participated in gay pornography beca...

Sexual addiction otherwise known as compulsive sexual behavior is associated with serious psychosocial problems and risk-taking behavior. This study used the Cybersex addiction test, Craving for pornography questionnaire, and a Questionnaire on intimacy among 267 participants (192 males and 75 females) mean age for males 28.16 (SD = 6.8) and for females 25.5 (SD = 5.13) who were recruited from ...

Major international law-enforcement initiatives are underway to fight the distribution of illegal pornography via the Internet. In this paper we examine the role of peerto-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks in illegal pornography distribution. First, we investigate the contention that these networks are especially implicated in illegal pornography distribution. Our finding is that this convention...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose a threat to the public health in the United States. Many sexual behaviors increase an individual’s risk of STI contraction. Chief among these are having unprotected sex, having sex with multiple partners, and either paying for sex or having sex for pay. The present study used General Social Survey (GSS) data from 2000, 2002, and 2004 to ex...

Objective: With the development of technology and easy access to a variety of content in Internet, the pornography consumption along with individual characteristics can be one of the factors affecting couples' relationship. This study aimed to assess the role of pornography consumption and sexual perfectionism with mediating role of sexual self-concept on marital burnout among university studen...