Contributions of mainstream sexual media exposure to sexual attitudes, perceived peer norms, and sexual behavior: A meta-analysis

SM Coyne, LM Ward, SL Kroff, EJ Davis… - Journal of adolescent …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Decades of research have examined the impact of exposure to nonexplicit
portrayals of sexual content in media. There is only one meta-analysis on this topic, which …

A Media Literacy Education Approach to High School Sexual Health Education: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on Adolescents' Media, Sexual Health, and …

TM Scull, CV Dodson, JG Geller, LC Reeder… - Journal of Youth and …, 2022 - Springer
Media may function as sex educators for adolescents; unfortunately, media messages often
glamorize risky sexual behaviors and unhealthy relationships and neglect sexual health …

Pornography consumption and sexual choking: An evaluation of theoretical mechanisms

PJ Wright, D Herbenick, RS Tokunaga - Health communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Many researchers interested In the socializing effects of pornography have found heuristic
utility in the sexual script acquisition, activation, application model (3AM) of mediated sexual …

Promoting sexual health in high school: A feasibility study of a web-based media literacy education program

T Scull, C Malik, A Morrison, E Keefe - Journal of health …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Comprehensive sexual health education (SHE) is an effective strategy for improving
adolescent sexual health. However, few of these programs address media influence on …

Pornography and impersonal sex

RS Tokunaga, PJ Wright… - Human Communication …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents meta-analytic findings on pornography consumption and impersonal
sexual attitudes and behaviors. Results were based on more than 70 reports spanning over …

Fitspiration on Instagram: Identifying topic clusters in user comments to posts with objectification features

V Murashka, J Liu, Y Peng - Health Communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to examine features of objectified images in popular fitspiration accounts
on social media, identify the most prevalent user discussion topics about these images, and …

Pornography consumption, perceptions of pornography as sexual information, and condom use

PJ Wright, C Sun, N Steffen - Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Pornography use is becoming more commonplace and may be a modality by which
individuals receive sex education. This survey study assessed pornography consumption …

Pornography vs. sexual science: The role of pornography use and dependency in US teenagers' sexual illiteracy

PJ Wright, RS Tokunaga, D Herbenick… - Communication …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined US adolescents' pornography consumption, pornography dependency,
and belief in a variety of notions contradicted by basic sexological science. Data were from …

Evaluating the short-term impact of media aware parent, a web-based program for parents with the goal of adolescent sexual health promotion

T M. Scull, C V. Malik, E M. Keefe… - Journal of youth and …, 2019 - Springer
Parents can significantly impact their adolescent child's sexual and relationship decision-
making, yet many parents are not effectively communicating with their teens about these …

Youth sexting and associations with parental media mediation

E Corcoran, J Doty, P Wisniewski, J Gabrielli - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Early adolescent sexting has implications for health and wellbeing. Parenting
practices may impact youth engagement in online risk behaviors. This study examines …