A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany: A Combination of Web Tracking and Survey Data Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel (N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts: In the first part, we looked at group differences (gender and age) in tracked OPU. Overall, this part's results confirm questionnaire-based research findings regarding sex and age differences. In the second part of our study, we combined the web tracking data with data from an online survey which was answered by a subset of the tracking participants (n = 1315) to assess the rele

SUBMITTER: von Andrian-Werburg MTP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703962 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature