The increased accessibility and use of pornography in Western society highlights the emergent need to understand the relationship between its use and sexual coercion. Decades of research have demonstrated a consistent relationship between pornography use and engaging in sexually aggressive behavior, although what drives this relationship remains largely unexplained. Researchers have recently presented potential explanations for these relationships, such as the use of violent pornography types, the development of aberrant sexual scripts, and the frequency of pornography use. This study seeks to contribute to the explanation by examining the potential mediating effects of sexual arousal on the relationship between pornography use frequency and willingness to engage in verbal and illegal sexual coercive behaviors by examining a sample of male and female college adults. This population reports some of the highest rates of pornography use. The sample of 745 college students were exposed to either an exotic video presentation or a criminal justice lecture, and provided a dating scenario and sexual arousal assessments. Results indicated those young adults that consume pornography more frequently were more likely to experience higher levels of sexual arousal to the erotic video than those who reported little or no use. However, after controlling for several variables significantly related to sexual coercion, arousal did not mediate willingness to engage in verbal or illegal sexual coercive behaviors. Other significant results and implications are discussed.

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色情使用和性强迫：检查性唤起的中介作用

西方社会色情内容的可及性和使用的增加突显了了解其使用与性胁迫之间关系的迫切需要。数十年的研究表明，使用色情内容与从事性侵犯行为之间存在一致的关系，尽管驱动这种关系的原因在很大程度上仍未得到解释。研究人员最近提出了对这些关系的潜在解释，例如暴力色情类型的使用、异常性脚本的发展以及色情使用的频率。本研究旨在通过检查男性和女性大学成年人的样本，研究性唤起对色情使用频率与从事口头和非法性胁迫行为的意愿之间关系的潜在中介作用，从而为解释做出贡献。该人群报告了一些色情使用率最高的人群。745 名大学生样本接受了异国情调的视频演示或刑事司法讲座，并提供了约会场景和性唤起评估。结果表明，与报告很少或根本没有使用的人相比，那些更频繁地观看色情内容的年轻人更有可能对色情视频产生更高水平的性唤起。然而，在控制了几个与性强迫显着相关的变量之后，唤醒并不介导进行口头或非法性胁迫行为的意愿。讨论了其他重要的结果和影响。