That's really interesting, Joe Ozzie. I did a google on it but didn't come up with much extra. I'll put what I did find below, in case anyone else is interested and it saves them some time.
Joe Ozzie's link is a publicity summary. It is based on the one done by McGill university, which is here:
link not working so taken down
The study itself is by Eran Shor and was published in the
Archives of Sexual Behaviour but you have to pay to read it:
Despite the recent proliferation of research on aggression in pornography, we still know relatively little about the preferences and perceptions of viewers themselves. In particular, very little research has examined how women who watch pornography feel when encountering aggression toward women...
link.springer.com
It is also included in his book (with his PhD student Kimberly Seida)
Aggression in Pornography: Myths and Realities which was published by Routledge last year.
The survey questions he put to people are set out here:
Despite the recent proliferation of research on aggression in pornography, we still know relatively little about the preferences and perceptions of viewers themselves. In particular, very little research has examined how women who watch pornography feel when encountering aggression toward women...
link.springer.com
Shor (and his researchers) interviewed 122 regular pornography viewers (61 women, 60 men, and 1 gender-diverse). The people they interviewed were from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Syria, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. But about half of them were Canadian (the study was done by Eran Shor of McGill University in Canada).
There is a review of the book (
Aggression in Pornography) here, but you have to pay to read it too:
phys.org
