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Health & WellnessJune 25, 2026

Violent Pornography Arousal Linked to Learning, Not Evolution

TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Sex Research found that in 571 German women, arousal to an aggressive written sexual narrative was better explained by sex drive, rape myth acceptance, and prior violent pornography exposure than by evolutionary life-history m…

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AddictionJune 10, 2026

Early Regular Adult-Content Viewing Linked to Higher Distress Profile

TL;DR: A 2026 study in Computers in Human Behavior grouped 1,316 U.S. adults by when they first saw sexually explicit media and when regular viewing began; the highest distress appeared in people who moved into regular viewing early, while late regular engagem…

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Violent Pornography Arousal Linked to Learning, Not Evolution

Early Regular Adult-Content Viewing Linked to Higher Distress Profile

The findings. The context. The caveats.