Abstract
It has long been asserted that a confluence of high levels of hostile masculinity, preference for impersonal sexuality, and pornography use is associated with men’s sexual aggression against women. The primary support for this assertion is a study of US college student data collected in 1984. The current research has two objectives. First, we attempt to replicate the earlier finding for support of the confluence model, which is both isolated and dates to decades before the advent of unlimited access to Internet pornography. Second, we wish to test an elaborated confluence model of personality, pornography, and sexual aggression that examines the roles of hostile masculinity, impersonal sexuality, sex drive, and the “dark triad” of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, together with pornography use, as synergistic correlates of men’s sexual aggression against women. An online survey, employing an Mturk sample of 1528 men aged 18-24, assessed men’s hostile masculinity, impersonal sexuality, sex drive, “Dark Triad” personality factors, and sexual aggression against women, employing validated measures of these constructs.
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