ABSTRACT

There is growing public concern that sexually explicit material (SEM) negatively affects women, given that SEM often promotes women’s sexual objectification, passivity and submission to male desire. Using a sample of 552 female high school students (M_age at baseline = 15.8, SD =.48) who participated in a 5-wave longitudinal study in Croatia, we assessed if and to what extent were hyperfemininity and sexual agency, as possible, respectively, negative and positive outcomes of SEM use, cross-sectionally related to adolescent women’s sexual satisfaction. We then assessed longitudinal associations between SEM use and hyperfemininity/sexual agency over a period of 24 months. The results of the cross-sectional analysis indicated that sexual satisfaction was not associated with hyperfeminity, but it was positively associated with sexual agency. The results of directed latent growth modelling indicated that baseline levels of SEM use were significantly and positively associated with both sexual agency and hyperfemininity two years later, and an increase in SEM use over time was significantly, albeit weakly, related only to hyperfemininity. Given that SEM use may contribute to the development of hyperfemininity, our findings call for further investments into comprehensive sexual education programs for youth that include discussions about SEM.

摘要

鉴于 SEM 经常促进女性的性客观化、被动性和屈服于男性欲望，公众越来越担心色情材料 (SEM) 会对女性产生负面影响。使用 552 名女高中生的样本（基线M_年龄= 15.8，SD =.48）谁参加了克罗地亚的 5 波纵向研究，我们评估了是否以及在多大程度上是超女性气质和性机构，分别与青少年女性的性行为相关的 SEM 使用的负面和正面结果满意。然后，我们在 24 个月内评估了 SEM 使用与超女性气质/性行为之间的纵向关联。横断面分析的结果表明，性满意度与超女性化无关，但与性能动性呈正相关。定向潜在生长模型的结果表明，SEM 使用的基线水平与两年后的性行为和超女性气质呈显着正相关，并且随着时间的推移，SEM 使用的增加是显着的，尽管微弱，只与超女性气质有关。鉴于 SEM 的使用可能会促进超女性气质的发展，我们的研究结果呼吁进一步投资于针对青少年的综合性教育计划，其中包括有关 SEM 的讨论。