Gender Differences in the Association between Pornography Use and Sexual Satisfaction: Further Meta-Analytic Evidence.

Abstract

Sexual satisfaction has been identified by public health experts as essential for sexual health, overall health, and well-being. The first meta-analysis of the association between pornography use and sexual satisfaction found a statistically significant negative correlation among men but not among women (i.e. men who consumed pornography more often were less sexually satisfied, while women's sexual satisfaction was not significantly related to their pornography use). A recent meta-analysis reported the opposite pattern of results. This brief report attempted to replicate this recent meta-analysis. Only one study from the original meta-analysis overlapped with the corpus of studies utilized for the recent meta-analysis. Despite this differential base of studies, the present reanalysis of the recent meta-analysis' data points confirmed the findings of the original meta-analysis. Pornography use is significantly and negatively related to men's, but not women's, sexual satisfaction.