Adolescents Use of Pornography: Trends over a Ten-year Period in SwedenShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Archives of Sexual Behavior, ISSN 0004-0002, E-ISSN 1573-2800, Vol. 51, no 2, p. 1125-1140Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Using survey data from three nationally representative surveys in 2004, 2009, and 2014 among senior high school students in Sweden, this study investigates trends in adolescents lifetime prevalence of pornography use, frequency of pornography use, and type of pornography used over time. While almost all boys and a considerable proportion of girls used pornography across the three waves, the lifetime prevalence of pornography use decreased overall for both girls and boys. The share of boys who use pornography frequently increased over the three survey cycles; those who reported using pornography daily increased from 11% in 2004 to 24% in 2014. In contrast, there was no change in girls who reported using pornography daily, while the proportion who never used pornography increased from 40% in 2004 to 51% in 2014. Adolescents appear to use a narrower range of different pornography types over the survey cycles. Multiple logistic regression models were generated to investigate factors associated with pornography use over the 10-year period. The results suggest that rule-breaking behavior, having higher economic status and higher academic achievement were related to boys pornography use, while rule-breaking behavior, early sexual debut and victimization were associated with girls pornography use.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS , 2022. Vol. 51, no 2, p. 1125-1140
Keywords [en]
Adolescents; Youth; Pornography use; Trends
National Category
Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-181188DOI: 10.1007/s10508-021-02084-8ISI: 000715674900003PubMedID: 34750776OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-181188DiVA, id: diva2:1613446
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Social Ministry; Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority in Sweden; Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society; Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Childrens Welfare Foundation Sweden; Swedbank Scientific Research Foundation
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