Archives of Sexual Behavior
Letter to the Editor by Paul J. Wright · Robert S. Tokunaga · Debby Herbenick
Received: 15 July 2024 / Revised: 3 October 2024 / Accepted: 21 November 2024
In this scholarly analysis, experts Wright, Tokunaga and Herbenick point out the weaknesses in a recent Romanian paper, which claimed that porn use increases sexual satisfaction. In addition, once again, Grubbs’s pet theory that “moral incongruence explains porn problems” was not well supported despite suggestions to the contrary in the faulty paper. Excerpts:
Findings to date are more consistent with the hypothesis that pornography use predicts subsequent sexual dissatisfaction (pornography use → sexual satisfaction) than sexual dissatisfaction predicts subsequent pornography use (sexual satisfaction → pornography use) (although we believe that bidirectional effects occur for some persons).
Our second goal … was to [cast doubt on the authors’ suggestion] that sex-guilt, as represented by morally incongruent pornography use and psychological distress about one’s pornography use, explains the link between more frequent pornography use and lower sexual satisfaction. …[In fact] No model fit indicator (i.e., CFI, RMSEA, SRMR) reached recommended levels for any analysis, however. In other words, model fit for the sex-guilt hypothesis was poor in all instances. (Emphasis supplied)
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