Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

Spring 5-7-2025

Faculty Advisor(s)

Dr. Desiree Crevecoeur-MacPhail

Abstract

Pornography is a notoriously male dominated field in consumption terms and as such, research regarding women’s consumption of pornography is limited and often contains focus on men’s consumption of pornography. The research conducted by Roslyn Addy and Dr. Desiree Crevecoeur-MacPhail intends to bring women in the pornography sphere as consumers rather than onlookers or subjects of pornography affected by male pornography users. Little is known about women’s actual thoughts, feelings, and use of pornography which limits the market of pornography that targets women and limits real conversations about pornography between women. The researchers have found that ideology does predict pornography use. All women have an individualized ideology about pornography as a political topic that influences the way they use pornography, expect partners to use pornography, and expect other women to use pornography. Three types of ideological categories about pornography from Hald’s (2014) handbook of sexuality and psychology, cluster the way that individual intends to or expects others to engage in pornography into aligning groups. By researching women’s ideologies and porn consumption habits the researchers can identify which ideologies have certain use of pornography patterns to open the conversation to more pleasurable and consumable pornography designed for women. This research also intends to contribute to a sex positive rhetoric in research as the majority of the research referenced is about problematic use and frames pornography use as a bad habit in line with only one of the theoretical pornography ideologies.

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Presented at the Spring 2025 Student Scholar Symposium at Chapman University.

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