Porn viewing: neurological effects
This section does not contain research on the brain changes associated with porn use or porn/sex addiction. For those papers see Brain Studies on Porn Users
See here the studies related to the unique qualities of Internet porn (films vs other stimuli, novelty, violation of expectations, anxiety-inducing, virtual reality, etc.) Porn viewing and neurological effects:
- Male sexual arousal across five modes of erotic stimulation (1988)
- Male Sexual Arousal Elicited by Film and Fantasy Matched in Content (1997)
- Sexual arousal and the quality of semen produced by masturbation (1996)
- Habituation of female sexual arousal to slides and film (1995)
- Allocation of Attentional Resources During Habituation and Dishabituation of Male Sexual Arousal (1999)
- Sexual behavior and responsiveness to sexual stimuli following laboratory-induced sexual arousal (2004)
- Identification with Stimuli Moderates Women’s Affective and Testosterone Responses to Self Chosen Erotica (2015)
- Changes in erectile response to repeated audiovisual sexual stimulation (1998)
- Changes in the Magnitude of the Eyeblink Startle Response During Habituation of Sexual Arousal (2000)
- Habituation and Dishabituation of Female Sexual Arousal (1990)
- Habituation and Dishabituation of Male Sexual Arousal (1993)
- Men Ejaculate Larger Volumes of Semen, More Motile Sperm, and More Quickly when Exposed to Images of Novel Women (2015)
- The Long Term Habituation of Sexual Arousal in The Human Male (1991)
- Anxiety increases sexual arousal (1983)
- Sexual anxiety and female sexual arousal: a comparison of arousal during sexual anxiety stimuli and sexual pleasure stimuli (1987)
- The effect of emotional arousal on subsequent sexual arousal in men (1980)
- Does deviant pornography use follow a Guttman-like progression? (2013)
- The Use of Film Clips in a Viewing Time Task of Sexual Interests (2017)
- The impact of immersion on the perception of pornography: A virtual reality study (2018)
- The impact of virtual reality versus 2D pornography on sexual arousal and presence (2019)
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