From the effects to the verification of the uses of pornography by the audience

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-58442023102pt

Keywords:

Pornography audience, Uses and Gratifications, Behavioral effects, Literature review

Abstract

Pornography sites receive up to 75 million daily visits and digital technologies have made explicit sexual content more visible and accessible than ever before. Its intense consumption revived the interest of researchers in understanding what would justify the audience’s demand for pornography, as well as its possible effects, because, conceiving such relationships have direct consequences in the regulation and standardization of their production and circulation. In this sense, we seek to understand the motivations, the uses of the pornography by the audience, through a literature review that privileged the approach of the theoretical tradition of Uses and Gratifications. It also sought to expose our main findings: (i) manipulation of physiological reactions; (ii) social interaction; and (iii) self-awareness. In the end, we theoretically established the relationships between the uses and the possible effects of pornography on its users.

Author Biographies

  • Raquel Marques Carriço Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brazil, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brasil, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brasil

    Associate Professor at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), working in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Communication (PPGCOM). Publicist, she holds a Master from Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (Umesp, 2003), doctor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) with a sandwich internship at the University of Leeds, England (2011), and postdoctoral fellow at the University Institute of Lisbon (IUL, 2017). She is a researcher at CIES-IUL - Center for Research and Studies in Sociology of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and coordinates RECEPCOM - Group for the Study of Media Production and Reception at UFS∕CNPq

  • Marilia Souza Santos, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brazil, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brasil, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. São Cristóvão – SE, Brasil

    Journalist in the Solidarity Network Project of Sergipe. Master in Social Communication from the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Sergipe. She has a bachelor degree in Social Communication – Journalism from the Federal University of Sergipe.

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Published

2023-05-08

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Vol. 46 (2023)

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From the effects to the verification of the uses of pornography by the audience. Intercom - Brazilian Journal of Communication Sciences, São Paulo, v. 46, p. e2023102, 2023. DOI: 10.1590/1809-58442023102pt. Disponível em: https://revistas.intercom.org.br/index.php/revistaintercom/article/view/4216. Acesso em: 21 jul. 2026.