ABSTRACT
Such images are part and parcel of today’s adult Internet pornography, but violent sexual images are available elsewhere. For instance, Bridges, Wosnitzer, Scharrer, Sun, and Liberman (2010) examined 304 scenes in 50 of the then most popular pornographic DVDs and found that nearly 90% contained
physical aggression (mainly spanking, gagging, and slapping) and roughly 50% included verbal aggression, primarily name-calling. Males constituted most of the perpetrators and the targets of their physical and verbal aggression were “overwhelmingly female.” Moreover, female targets often appeared to show pleasure or responded neutrally to male aggression. To make matters worse, as the porn industry grows and attracts an ever-growing consumer base, it is generating even more violent materials featuring demeaning and dehumanizing behaviors never before seen (DeKeseredy & Corsianos, 2016). It is not only anti-porn scholars and activists who assert that violent sex is now a normal part of the industry. Even porn producers publicly admit that it is the status quo (Abowitz, 2013; Dines, 2010).
