Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada; Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Canada.
J Sex Med. 2020 Jun;17(6):1156-1167. doi: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.02.009. Epub 2020 Mar 10.
The ease of access to pornography has made its use common among adolescents. Although sexual and gender minority (SGM) (eg, gay, transgender) adolescents may be more prone to use pornography owing to sexual orientation-related information seeking and/or scarcity of potential romantic or sexual partners, relatively little attention has been paid to their pornography use and to the quantitative examination of the similarities and differences between heterosexual, cisgender (HC) and SGM adolescents' pornography use characteristics.
The aim of the present study was to compare SGM and HC adolescents' pornography use considering potential sex differences.
We used a sample of 2,846 adolescents (52.5% girls; M = 14.5 years, SD = 0.6), which was collected as part of an ongoing longitudinal study on adolescents' sexual health. Data were analyzed with 5 groups: HC boys; HC girls; SGM boys; SGM girls; and SGM non-binary individuals.
Adolescents completed a self-report questionnaire about sexual and gender minority status and pornography use (ie, lifetime use, age at first exposure, and frequency of use in the past 3 months.) RESULTS: Results indicated significant differences between all groups: 88.2% of HC boys, 78.2% of SGM boys, 54.2% of SGM girls, 39.4% of HC girls, and 29.4% of SGM non-binary individuals reported having ever viewed pornography by the age of 14 years. SGM girls indicated a significantly younger age at first pornography use than HC girls, but this difference was not significant among boys. SGM boys reported the highest (median: many times per week), whereas HC girls reported the lowest (median: less than once a month) frequency of pornography use.
Results suggest that SGM and HC boys' pornography use characteristics are rather similar, whereas SGM and HC girls' pornography use patterns may be considered different presumably because of the varying underlying motivations (eg, using pornography to confirm sexual orientation).
STRENGTHS & LIMITATIONS: Self-report measures and cross-sectional designs have potential biases that should be considered. However, the present study involved a large sample of adolescents including SGM adolescents, a population group that is understudied.
Approximately two-thirds of teenagers had gained their first experience with pornography in the present sample, and 52.2% reported using it once a week or more often in the past 3 months, indicating that pornography use may play an important role in both HC and SGM adolescents' sexual development. Gender-based differences concerning pornography use seem to be robust regardless of SGM status. Bőthe B, Vaillancourt-Morel, MP, Girouard A, et al. A Large-Scale Comparison of Canadian Sexual/Gender Minority and Heterosexual, Cisgender Adolescents' Pornography Use Characteristics. J Sex Med 2020;17:1156-1167.
互联网上易于获取色情内容，这使得色情内容在青少年中广泛使用。由于性少数群体（例如同性恋、跨性别者）青少年可能出于与性取向相关的信息寻求或潜在浪漫或性伴侣的匮乏而更倾向于使用色情内容，但是，人们对他们的色情内容使用情况以及异性恋、顺性别（HC）和性少数群体青少年的色情内容使用特征之间的相似性和差异性的定量研究关注甚少。
本研究旨在比较性少数群体和 HC 青少年的色情内容使用情况，同时考虑潜在的性别差异。
我们使用了一个由 2846 名青少年（52.5%为女孩；M=14.5 岁，SD=0.6）组成的样本，该样本是一项关于青少年性健康的正在进行的纵向研究的一部分。数据使用 5 个组进行分析：HC 男孩；HC 女孩；SGM 男孩；SGM 女孩；SGM 非二元个体。
青少年完成了一份关于性少数群体状态和色情内容使用情况的自我报告问卷（即一生使用、首次接触的年龄以及过去 3 个月的使用频率）。结果表明，所有组之间都存在显著差异：88.2%的 HC 男孩、78.2%的 SGM 男孩、54.2%的 SGM 女孩、39.4%的 HC 女孩和 29.4%的 SGM 非二元个体在 14 岁时就已经观看过色情内容。SGM 女孩首次接触色情内容的年龄明显比 HC 女孩小，但这种差异在男孩中并不显著。SGM 男孩报告的使用频率最高（中位数：每周多次），而 HC 女孩报告的使用频率最低（中位数：每月不到一次）。
结果表明，SGM 和 HC 男孩的色情内容使用特征非常相似，而 SGM 和 HC 女孩的色情内容使用模式可能被认为是不同的，这可能是由于潜在的动机不同（例如，使用色情内容来确认性取向）。
自我报告的测量和横断面设计可能存在潜在的偏差，应予以考虑。然而，本研究涉及了包括性少数群体青少年在内的大量青少年样本，这是一个研究不足的人群。
在本研究样本中，大约有三分之二的青少年首次接触到色情内容，52.2%的青少年在过去 3 个月中每周或更频繁地使用色情内容，这表明色情内容可能在 HC 和 SGM 青少年的性发展中发挥重要作用。基于性别的色情内容使用差异似乎是稳健的，与性少数群体状态无关。
