90 percent of male university students believe that pornography is true to real sexuality and some of the scenes they see are translated into their practices, assuming risky and violent behaviors, so that 11 percent of women claim to have received violence from a sexual partner.
These are data from the publication Pornography and Affective Education (Editorial Octaedro), of the universities of Illes Balears and Santiago de Compostela, with the collaboration of the NGO network “Young and Inclusion” and the FAIA Research Center presented this Tuesday, which is based on a study carried out with university students from 18 to 26 years of age.
In the study – in which 101 young people from eight Spanish universities, regular porn consumers, have participated – it appears that 56 percent of university students began watching porn on the Internet aged 15 or under.
One in three boys and one in six girls consume it every day.
In this new pornography “online” (NPO) – the authors stand out – all kinds of sexual practices can be used, from the most conventional to those of high risk or directly illegal.
However, young people generally think that pornography consumption has no negative effect – as two out of three university students think – and although 70 percent have detected some form of violence in its contents, only 16 percent think it can generate violence against women.
Nine out of ten men consulted believe that porn is true to real sexuality (compared to 42 percent of women) and new pornography is the model of sexuality that more and more young boys seek to replicate, transferring risky and violent behaviors typical of these contents to their sexual relations.
The most common risky behaviors are condomless sex (55.6 % of men versus 24.4 % of women), group sex (18.5 percent men, 6.7 percent of women), and videotaping other people (13 percent men, 0 % of women).
In addition, 11 percent of women claim to have received violence (asphyxiating, gluing, spitting) from a sexual partner and 5.6 percent of men have paid for sex after watching pornography.
The doctor of the University of the Balearic Islands and author of the report, Lluís Ballester, explained that behind this consumption is the empathetic – disconnection, an “offer of consciousness that allows you to see veja contents without questioning them morally.”
This disconnect is both emotional and cognitive. They take it as fiction and that allows them to protect their conscience. It is also a difficult habit to change, as a subsequent month-long awareness program failed to substantially change its perception or consumption habits.
The report also asked respondents about sexual affective education they had received and only two out of 10 young people found it satisfactory.
In this sense, the authors warn that sexual affective education is generally focused on anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, and reproductive health, rather than having as its central axis emotions and attitudes, adapted to the age and involving parents.
If adolescents do not find satisfactory answers in the family and educational establishments will continue to seek them in pornography and prostitution, which poses a high risk of perpetuating violence against women, they have warned.