Online Porn Research Articles

‘We Attempted to Deliver Your Package’: Forensic Translation in the Fight Against Cross-Border Cybercrime

Cybercrime has increased significantly, recently, as a result of both individual and group criminal practice, and is now a threat to individuals, organisations, and democratic systems worldwide. However, cybercrime raises two main challenges for legal systems: firstly, because cybercriminals operate online, cybercrime spans beyond the boundaries of specific jurisdictions, which constrains the operation of the police and, subsequently, the conviction of the perpetrators; secondly, since cybercriminals can operate from anywhere in the world, law enforcement agencies struggle to identify the origin of the communications, especially when obfuscation strategies are used, e.g. dark web fora. Nevertheless, cybercriminals inherently use language to communicate, so the linguistic analysis of suspect communications is particularly helpful in deterring cybercriminal practice. This article reports the potential of forensic translation in the fight against cybercrime. Although the term ‘forensic translation’ is typically understood as a synonym of ‘legal translation’, it is argued that the implications of forensic translation span beyond those of legal translation, to include analyses of language rights, of the right to interpretation and translation in legal procedures (in the EU), or even investigative and intelligence practices. Translation is a pervasive activity that is conducted, not only by professional translators, but also by lay speakers of language, often using machine translation systems. The ease of use of the latter makes it particularly suitable for cross-border criminal (e.g. extortion or fraud) and cybercriminal communications (e.g. cybertrespass, cyberfraud, cyberpiracy, cyberporn or child online porn, cyberviolence or cyberstalking). This article presents the results of the analysis of cybercriminal communications from a forensic translation perspective. It demonstrates that translation is frequently used to spread cybercriminal communications, and that reverse-engineering the translational procedure will assist law enforcement agencies in narrowing down their pool of suspects and, consequently, deter cybercriminal threats.

Saturated femininities: trans women in porn beyond the shemale

ABSTRACT This article identifies modes of transfeminine representation outside the figure of the ‘shemale’. Two films, The Surprise of a Knight (circa 1929) and Office Love-In (1968), occupy overlooked points on a genealogy of transfeminine porn. Each provides character archetypes that would later inform the construction of the shemale. The latter half of the article builds on John Mercer’s ‘saturated masculinities’ in analyzing varied portrayals of trans women in present-day online porn. Alongside the shemale, the figures of the ‘ladyboy’, ‘BBC’, and ‘femboy’ represent distinct iterations of pornographic transfeminine bodies. The article considers those distinctions for the purpose of marking the present-day pornotopic imaginings of trans women in porn.

Pornography Use among Lebanese Adults: Association with Loneliness and Fear of Commitment.

(1) Background: Sexuality is a prohibited topic about which knowledge is highly lacking among Arabs compared to Westerners, due to religious restrictions. A majority of people believes that any use of pornography is a toxic conduct that will have negative repercussions; these beliefs only shame those who engage in this behavior. Consumption of pornography can be attributed to self-reported reasons such as loneliness and fear of commitment. To date, there has been a dearth of research in Lebanon concerning pornography use. Hence, this study aims to assess the correlation between loneliness, fear of commitment, and internet pornography use among Lebanese adults. (2) Methods: This cross-sectional study conducted between October and November 2020 assessed pornography use through the Cyber-Pornography Use Inventory, Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale, and Fear of commitment scale. It enrolled 653 adults from all Lebanese geographic areas. (3) Results: Women compared to men and Muslims compared to Christians were significantly associated with lower pornography addictive patterns scores, whereas more fear of commitment was significantly associated with higher pornography addictive patterns scores. More fear of commitment and more loneliness were significantly associated with higher having guilt regarding online porn use scores. Muslims compared to Christians had significantly lower online sexual behaviors scores. (4) Conclusions: Further research is recommended to properly assess internet pornography use and develop appropriate treatment options.

Assessment of Problematic Pornography Use Among Lebanese Adults and the Role of Child and Partner Abuse

Objective: To assess the association between child and intimate partner abuse and problematic pornography use among Lebanese adults.Methods: This cross-sectional study conducted between October and November 2020 enrolled a total of 653 participants aged > 18 years from all Lebanese districts. The questionnaire was sent through various social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram. The Cyber-Pornography Use Inventory assessed problematic pornography use, the Child Abuse Self-Report Scale assessed child abuse, and the Composite Abuse Scale evaluated partner abuse.Results: The study findings highlighted that more child neglect and partner sexual abuse were associated with less odds of pornography addictive patterns, whereas alcohol consumption, higher child physical abuse, and higher partner physical abuse were significantly (P < .001) associated with higher odds of having pornography addictive patterns. Moreover, more partner sexual abuse and child neglect were significantly (P < .001) associated with less odds of having guilt regarding online porn use, whereas alcohol consumption, more partner physical abuse, and more child psychological abuse were significantly (P < .001) associated with more odds of having guilt regarding online porn use. Furthermore, higher age, more partner sexual abuse, and more child neglect were significantly (P < .001) associated with less odds of having online sexual behaviors-social, whereas alcohol consumption, more partner physical abuse, and more child psychological abuse were significantly (P < .001) associated with higher odds of having online sexual behaviors-social.Conclusions: The study findings highlighted that pornography use is positively linked with child and partner abuse and alcohol consumption. Further investigation and research are recommended to properly assess problematic pornography use, develop appropriate treatment options, and evaluate mental health and sexual life effects.

Physiological, Psychosocial and Substance Abuse Effects of Pornography Addiction: A Narrative Review.

Internet pornography provides explicit content in various forms and can progress from habit to addiction. The consumption of online porn has risen due to the general use of current technology. The main reasons people consume it are sexual arousal and sexual enhancement. We planned this review study to identify the reasons for online pornography utilization, the mechanisms involved in its addiction, and its physiological, emotional, behavioral, social, and substance abuse effects. After a detailed literature search using PubMed Central and Google Scholar, four case studies and nine original articles from 2000 to 2022 were included. The main findings of the literature demonstrated that watching porn was most frequently done out of boredom, for sexual gratification, and to pick up new fashion and behavior ideas from these movies. In all facets of the users' lives, negative consequences were seen. Due to the explosion of new technologies, online pornography has risen to an alarming level, which has very injurious effects on societies and individuals. Therefore, it is high time to get rid of this addiction to protect our lives from its harmful effects.

Personality Traits and Online Pornography Use Among Lebanese Adults

Objective: To evaluate the association between personality traits and online pornography use among a sample of Lebanese adults.Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out between October and November 2020 and enrolled participants from all Lebanese districts through an online survey following a snowball technique. Participants (N = 653) completed a self-administered questionnaire, which included questions from the Cyber-Pornography Use Inventory and the Big 5 Inventory.Results: Higher extroversion (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 1.06) and agreeableness (aOR = 1.05), as well as having a secondary (aOR = 1.82) or university (aOR = 2.18) level of education compared to a primary/complementary level were significantly associated with more porn-addictive patterns. Females had lower porn-addictive patterns compared to males (aOR = 0.67). Alcohol consumption (aOR = 2.26), higher agreeableness (aOR = 1.04), and having a secondary (aOR = 1.58) or university (aOR = 1.80) level of education compared to a primary/complementary level were significantly associated with more guilt regarding online porn use. Finally, alcohol drinking (aOR = 2.28) was significantly associated with more online sexual behavior, whereas female gender (aOR = 0.34) and more agreeableness (aOR = 0.94) were significantly associated with less online sexual behavior.Conclusions: The study highlights that some personality traits (agreeableness and extroversion) and other factors (alcohol consumption, gender, and education level) are associated factors with online pornography use. Further research is needed to assess different factors associated with pornography viewing.

Technological Addictions.

Modern methods of communication and engagement, such as social media, video games, and online shopping, use a variety of behavioral techniques to encourage and reward frequent use, opening the door to addiction. The technological addictions (TAs) are a set of disorders that accompany the technological advances that define the digital age. The TAs are an active source of research in the literature, with promising treatment options already available. There are promising therapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments for a broad range of TAs. Stimulants, antidepressants, and cognitive therapies may all be effective for internet gaming disorder (IGD). Cognitive therapies may be effective for other TAs, such as social media addiction (SMA), online shopping addiction (OSA), and online porn addiction. Society's dependence on addictive technologies will only increase. Many of the TAs can be addressed with medication and therapy, with more research and literature developing at a rapid pace.

Teenage girls and the entanglement with online porn: a new feminist materialist perspective

abstract Who knows what sexually explicit materials (SEM)/ porn could mean to teenage girls if we were encouraged to see it as an assemblage, full of intensities, rather than negative effects, and the breakdown of innocence? We answer this question by taking on the dominant narrative repeated in public that seeks to place young female sexuality ‘under erasure’ through the common denominator of sexual danger. Instead by drawing on new feminist materialist perspectives and through conversation with girls, we address what they can do by examining their experiences with SEM/ porn as they navigate an assemblage that seeks to silence their sexual becomings. We argue that girls’ sexual network connectivity and exploration of SEM/ porn through human and more-than-human elements, rather than based on sexual muteness speaks to the entanglement of their desire for knowing and learning ‘sexually’ while resisting gender oppressive structures. We destabilise the current danger narrative circulating in South Africa through a radical interpretation of what is possible to know about girls as they generate insights into their critical capacities even if these insights trouble our assumptions about what girls’ sexual agency should look like. In conclusion, we argue that new feminist material perspectives allow for understanding the entangled relations that are ignited when teenage girls are given the opportunity to discuss their online sexual explorations and the implications for addressing teenage girls as fully agentive sexual beings.

Prevalence and Correlates of Sext-Sharing Among a Representative Sample of Youth in the Netherlands.

Many adolescents use their electronic devices to send each other sexually explicit texts, photos, and videos of themselves—commonly known as sexting. This can be fun and is not usually problematic. However, if the intended recipient decides to share these sexts with a broader audience, the consequences for the depicted can be detrimental. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of (non-consensual) sext-sharing among Dutch adolescents and explore the characteristics of those who do, to gain a better understanding of factors involved in dissemination. We used data from “Sex under the age of 25,” a representative national survey on sexual health among a sample of 20,834 Dutch 12–24-year-olds. The prevalence of sext-sharing was estimated using Complex Samples. Logistic regressions were used to assess associations between demographics, school-based sexting education, sexual- and online behavior, and mental health and sext-sharing. About 4% of the adolescents reported having shared someone else's sext in the last six months. Being male, aged 12–14 years, frequent social media usage, watching online porn, sexual experience, and being subjected to sext-sharing themselves associated most strongly with sext-sharing. Our findings show that the likelihood of sext-sharing is lower in older adolescents and that it associates with the extent of adolescents' sexual curiosity and online activity. The overlap between sharing sexts of others and having one's own sext shared suggests that dissemination of personal sexual content might be normalized or used as an act of retribution. Further research could be helpful to explain the mechanisms underlying this overlap. The results of this study illustrate the importance of exposing adolescents to evidence based preventive educational interventions on sexting from 12 years onwards and not just within the context of traditional school-based sex education, but also as a part of the (online) media-literacy curriculum.

Newer addictions in children and adolescents

New forms of digital/social media include Applications (Apps), Multiplayer Video Games, YouTube Videos, Or Video Blogs (Vlogs), WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Telegram. Research evidence suggests that these newer media offer both benefits and risks to the health of children and teenagers. In a survey done on parents by family foundation in 2011, 52% of children 0–8 years of age had access to a mobile device (although only 38% had ever used once). By 2013, this access had increased to 75% between 0 and 8-year olds. In addiction cycle, there are three stages: Binge/intoxication, Withdrawal/negative affect, Preoccupation/anticipation. Majority of us spend much of our time online, especially now during the era of COVID-19 to stay connected to others and keep ourselves entertained during social distancing. As with most disorders, there is not always a clear cause of Internet addiction. However, there are likely multiple factors that contribute to the development of this disorder, some of which are rooted in nature and others that are rooted in nurture. Other newer addictions are pathological gambling, internet gaming disorder, online porn addiction, online shopping addiction, social networking addiction causes biological as well as psychological problems. Manage screen use, Meaningful screen use, Model healthy screen use, Monitor for problematic screen use at any age. To promote health and wellness in children and adolescents maintain adequate physical activity, healthy nutrition, good sleep hygiene, and a nurturing social environment.

‘Any performer you pick!’ Playful manifestations of porn spectatorship

This article presents a qualitative study of 18 porn spectators' selfreflective sexual narratives. It asks how porn spectatorship shapes one’s sexual self and how it connects to transformations in sexual desires, fantasies, and pleasures. Applying theorizations of play into thinking through the relationship between sexual norms and the uses of porn, the article further conceptualizes online porn as a toy – an object to play with and to use for pleasure. Also, it offers to frame porn spectatorship as a finite province of meaning, namely a sub reality and a particular realm of experience, and thus it sets out to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ecology of play at hand.

Sex and “the City”: Financial stress and online pornography consumption

We examine the effects of financial stress on online pornography consumption. We use novel data on daily accesses to one of the most popular porn website (xHamster) for 43 different cities belonging to 10 countries for the year 2016. In financial cities, in which people are more likely to be affected by financial stress, we observe that on average online porn viewing decreases as financial stress increases. We present some evidence suggesting the causing channel to be altered mood.

Reflections on researching pornography across Asia: voices from the region

ABSTRACT This article introduces the special issue on East Asian Pornographies and Online Porn Cultures. It considers the logistical and theoretical challenges faced by researchers within the region who wish to investigate Asian producers and consumers. It introduces trends and scholars working within the emerging field of Asian porn studies and explores what their experiences reveal about the study of pornography more broadly. The introduction argues for an approach grounded in ‘Asia as method' within the context of the increasing systematization of porn studies within the Western academy and the development of a Western-oriented ‘porn studies' theoretical canon.

‘Lesbian porn. Anything girl on girl’: young women’s understandings of their engagement with lesbian porn

ABSTRACT Literature on women’s engagement and experiences as consumers of porn shows an increasing recognition that women are aroused by porn. The research reported here observed and analyzed young women’s discussions around online porn on three English-language internet forums. By drawing on qualitative methodology, the understandings of young women on their experiences with lesbian porn are reported. In their discussions about lesbian porn, hetero-identifying young women are critically engaging with ideas of authenticity, respect, desire, and fluid sexuality. Many of the women in this research enjoyed lesbian porn, with some reporting desire towards female performers, and others perceiving better treatment of female performers in lesbian porn, which heightened their pleasure. This article contributes further insight into the nexus of young women, the internet, and porn, and explores the implications of women’s attitudes towards their consumption of lesbian porn.

‘We live in the past with Kari’: memory, fandom and online porn histories

ABSTRACT In this article, I consider the role that private memories play in researching historical media objects. I argue for the inclusion of embodied and personal investments in scholarly research. I back this claim by outlining my methods in studying mainstream online heteroporn. Contemporary film theories of the senses can be employed in researching media objects, particularly for older media such as ‘vintage’ online porn. I articulate the history of a retired porn star, Kari Sweets, through FreeOnes.com forum users’ memories of her. By doing so, this article helps us to better understand the functions and uses of online heteroporn and its unofficial history as told through its most knowledgeable proponents: the fans.

Age verification for online porn: more harm than good?

On 27 April 2017, the Digital Economy Act 2017 received Royal Assent. Part 3 of the Act specifies requirements for publishers of online pornography to prevent access by under-18s, enforced by a new...

Adolescent Sexual Script and Pornography Consumption

The Internet which emerged several decades ago has become a system with full of complexity both technically and socially. This study aims to determine the impact of pornography exposure on the internet through the approach of Sexual Script theory in order to find out the role of the environment and its relation to free sex behavior. Qualitative research approach using case study research design was applied in this research. Subjects 5 (five) adolescent were selected based on certain criteria which was based on theory or operational constructs according to the purpose of research, namely: 1) Teenagers of 18-21 years old, (2) Male or female, consisting of 4 (four) men and 1 (one) woman (3) Being able to access the internet. Semi structured interview was used as the method of collecting the data. Thematic analysis using coding from the transcripts of verbatimized interviews was used as the technique analysis. The research findings show that sex-browsing sites are inadvertently accessed by teenagers in the process of finding materials for doing homework by using words to search for information and images. Free internet access and inappropriate disclosure of information can have a negative impact on sexual behavior. The problems posed include social interaction with peers, sexual activity, and adolescent emotional development. The cultural environment provides information to the individual about sexuality. Individuals obtain different types of information about sexual meanings that include the objects, characteristics and quality of the cultural environment. The form and place of sexual behavior for dating can be found in boarding houses and hotels. The scripts of sex culture are learned through observation of the behavior of others, through all forms of mass media as well as through formal guidance in family schools, schools or social media. Interpersonal scripts are obtained through masturbation experience by viewing photos, video clips, movies and text. Source of information is obtained from online porn, namely both free and charged website Pornography can also be exchanged between peers, online forums, and online chat channels. Users of pornography will apply the script they learned in accordance with the pornography views consumed in the form of sexual behavior in their real life.

‘One dollar gets you in!’: historical resonance and online solo girls circa 2005

ABSTRACTIn this article, with the aid of film and media theories, I provide an overview of ‘solo girl’ pornography, a category of mainstream heterosexual porn with online ubiquity. I discuss the historical relevance of this subgenre in specifically technological and affective terms, taking a cue from Susanna Paasonen’s work on tactile engagements with online pornography. Solo girl performances are preserved in still images, videos, and webcams and consist of striptease, masturbation, and girl-on-girl sex. I outline how each of these types of porn content functions within the niche and how users access the materials. Following this, I discuss the role of the online forum Free Ones and its significance for promoting solo girl content and fostering relationships amongst pornophiles. I conclude with some remarks about the lasting resonance of early twenty-first-century solo performers and consider the role of archiving vintage online porn.

Blue transfusions: internet porn and the pirating of queer cinema’s sex scenes

ABSTRACTThe present proliferation of online porn aggregators offers a distinct set of promises and challenges to porn production, consumption, and theorization. This article traces the online pirating of some of queer cinema’s steamiest sex scenes through questions of technology, access, classification, and affect, arguing that the gay-identified porn aggregator comprises a unique kind of counterpublic space. Suggesting a new ‘gay underground’ that honours its avant-garde antecedents despite – or perhaps because of – its torrented trappings, this piracy-driven porn aggregator offers complex and contradictory ways of engaging with queer cinema in the digital age.

The Changing Landscape of Online Pornography: Translocal Networks and Transcultural Practices

Pornography's massive growth online in the last 25 years, and the emergence of technologies such as broadband, webcams and smartphones, has led to fundamental changes in the ways people encounter, consume, and relate to online porn. Pornography has undoubtedly infiltrated the Western mainstream; it is now woven into the fabric of ordinary life and everyday online multitasking. The ways porn is accessed and consumed continue to evolve, keeping pace with broader changes in Web use. While there is much work being done in contemporary porn studies which examines these changes, there is an aspect of porn's evolution online that has for the most part been neglected: the ways it is linked to globalization and the spread of ideas across nations and borders. Processes of globalization, the Internet, and developing media technologies have facilitated global access to pornography. Pornography now moves across geographic space, transcends national borders and links global communities – spreading narratives, norms, and social texts across global contexts. Despite these changes, contemporary porn studies has, for the most part, remained insulated from the theoretical work coking out of transnational studies. Conversely, transnational theory—as well as the theoretical positions developing out of transnational theory, such as translocal and transcultural theory—has all but ignored pornography as one of the flows of information that increasingly moves between and connects global spaces, and that has specific impacts on relations of intimacy, sexuality and desire. This paper explores how, when taken together, each of these approaches has the potential to broaden the scope of the other, and potentially answer some important questions around the ways globalization is impacting sexualities.