398 Effects of Pornography Use on the Couple Relationship: Results of “Bottom-Up,” Participant-Informed, Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Considerable research has emerged concerning effects of pornography on couple relationships. “Top-down” close-ended, quantitative investigations have targeted a limited number of primarily harm-focused effects for study. A small body of qualitative research offers tantalizing glimpses of potential effects of pornography that have been overlooked in the “top-down” close-ended, harm-focused research tradition. The aim of the current two “bottom-up” participant-informed, qualitative and quantitative studies was to identify a range of participant reported effects of pornography on the couple relationship that may have been overlooked in “top-down,” close-ended, harm focused quantitative studies. Study 1: An online survey recruited men (n = 219) and women (n = 211) who were currently in a heterosexual relationship where at least one partner had experience with pornography use. Open-ended questions probed participants’ perceptions of the impacts that their solitary pornography use, their partners’ solitary pornography use, and/or their shared pornography use, has had on their relationships. Responses were analyzed using Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Study 2 recruited both members of 200 couples, diverse in age, religion, political orientation, and other characteristics, and employed qualitative and quantitative assessments of effects of pornography on their couple relationship.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".