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One study that kept track of couples over time found that consuming porn was the second strongest predictor that a relationship would suffer.
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(Malcolm & Naufal, 2016)
According to a 2016 study, people who view porn regularly are less likely to get married than those who do not. Researchers suggest this may be because consumers see porn as a substitute for sexual gratification in a relationship.
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Fast Fact #38
(Martellozzo, Monaghan, Adler, Davidson, Leyva, & Horvath, 2016)
Over half of 11 to 16-year-old boys (53%) and over a third of 11 to 16-year-old girls (39%) reported believing that pornography was a realistic depiction of sex, according to a 2016 report.
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Fast Fact #56
(Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Bella, Potenza, Demetrovics, & Orosz, 2021)
According to a 2021 study, only 5.94% of porn-consuming respondents said that they watched porn because of a "lack of sexual satisfaction." In other words, the vast majority of porn consumers are watching porn for reasons other than their partner not being "enough."
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