Psychology Department, Middlebury College.
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Vermont.
J Sex Res. 2021 Mar-Apr;58(3):314-321. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1716206. Epub 2020 Feb 3.
There is a widely held belief that the amount and intensity of transgressive content in pornography have been rising. Reliably assessing for such an increase, however, is complicated by methodological factors including hand-coding content using conflicting definitions of what constitutes transgressive content. In response to those limitations, the present study used the results of a published empirical content analysis of ~250,000 erotic stories written over 16 years to determine if the amount or popularity of transgressive content (stories high in the themes of violence, family (incest), or BDSM) has changed in that timeframe. Results from the present study indicated no meaningful increase in either the amount of content with those themes or popularity (as measured by story views per day) of any of the three transgressive themes within the erotic narratives over the 16-year period of analysis. These results, in addition to recent research presenting similar findings within pornographic video, do not support popular perceptions that erotic material is becoming increasingly transgressive. Rather, such content within internet-based erotic material, and particularly erotic narratives, appears to be relatively consistent.
有一种普遍的观点认为，色情内容的数量和强度一直在上升。然而，可靠地评估这种增加情况很复杂，因为存在方法学因素，包括使用对何为越轨内容有冲突定义的人工编码内容。为了应对这些限制，本研究使用了一项已发表的关于 16 年来撰写的约 25 万篇色情故事的实证内容分析的结果，以确定在这段时间内，越轨内容（暴力、家庭（乱伦）或 BDSM 主题较高的故事）的数量或受欢迎程度是否发生了变化。本研究的结果表明，在分析的 16 年期间，色情故事中这些主题的内容数量或任何三种越轨主题的受欢迎程度（以每天的故事浏览量衡量）都没有明显增加。这些结果，以及最近在色情视频中呈现类似发现的研究，都不支持色情材料越来越越轨的普遍看法。相反，互联网色情材料，特别是色情叙事，似乎相对一致。
