• In a content analysis of 50 best-selling pornographic videos, nearly half of the scenes analyzed contained verbal aggression and more than 88% showed physical aggression. Of those aggressive acts, 70% were done by men, and 87% of the aggressive acts were perpetrated against women. The overwhelming majority of the time these aggressions were responded to with pleasure or neutrality by the victims. Fewer than 5% of aggressive acts resulted in a negative response from the victim. Furthermore, it was very infrequent for scenes to show positive behaviours, such as compliments, kissing, or laughter
• Many of the men I talk to believe that porn sex is what women want, and they become upset and angry when their sex partner, perhaps their wife, girlfriend or a one night hook-up, refuses to look or behave like their favourite porn star.
• Adult exposure to pornography is connected with users increasing their estimates of how often people have violent and group sex.
• In pornography “sex is divorced from intimacy, loving affection, and human connection; all women are constantly available for sex and have insatiable sexual appetites; and all women are sexually satisfied by whatever the men in the film do.”

A. J. Bridges, R. Wosnitzer, E. Scharrer, S. Chyng, and R. Liberman, “Aggression andSexual Behavior in Best Selling Pornography Videos: A Content Analysis Update, “Violence Against Women 16, no. 10 (2010): 1065-1085.

Gail Dines, “Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality” 2010.

Dolf Zillmann, “Influence of Unrestrained Access to Erotica on Adolescents’ and Young Adults” Dispositions Toward Sexuality, “Journal of Adolescent Health 27, no 2 (2000): 41-44

Zillmann and Bryant, “Effects of Massive Exposure to Pornography” in Pornography and Sexual Aggression, Eds. Neil M. Malamuth and Edward Sonerstein (New York: Academic Press, 1984)

R. Jensen and G. Dines. “The Content of Mass-Marketed Pornography,” in Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. eds. G. Dines, R. Jensen, and A. Russo. New York Routledge (1998), pp.65-100.