Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample(1).pdf

Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at ion/journalInformation?journalCode=hjsr20 Download by: [National Tsing Hua University] Date: 27 September 2015, At: 00:41 The Journal of Sex Research ISSN: 0022-4499 (Print) 1559-8519 (Online) Journal homepage: /hjsr20 Is Pornography Really about “Making Hate to Women”? Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample Taylor Kohut, Jodie L. Baer & Brendan Watts To cite this article: Taylor Kohut, Jodie L. Baer & Brendan Watts (2015): Is Pornography Really about “Making Hate to Women”? Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample, The Journal of Sex Research, DOI: .1023427 To link to this article: http://dx./.1023427 Published online: 25 Aug 2015. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 5397 View related articles View Crossmark data Is Pornography Really about ‘‘Making Hate to Women’’? Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample Taylor Kohut and Jodie L. Baer Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Brendan Watts Department of Sociology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada According to radical feminist theory, pornography serves to further the subordination of women by training its users, males and females alike, to view women as little more than sex objects over whom men should plete control. Composite variables from the General Social Survey were used to test the hypothesis that pornography users would hold attitudes that were more supportive of gender nonegalitarianism than nonusers of pornogra- phy. Results did not support hypotheses derived from radical feminist theory. Pornography users held more egalitarian attitudes —toward women in positions of power, toward women working outside the home, and toward abortion —than nonusers of porn