ABSTRACT
Despite the controversial nature of pornography, relatively little is known about how and why consumers use sexually explicit materials. Much research that has attempted to explain the effects of consumption has failed to examine groups of people who independently chose to consume pornography. Instead, many of these studies focused on behavior of available people who were recruited by researchers to become pornography consumers. Among the longest running efforts to study the use of sexually explicit material by consumers who voluntarily consume such fare is the work of the Indiana University for Sex Research, most widely known as the Kinsey studies.
