May 31, 2019 |
Study: Male Porn Fans at AVN Expo Less Misogynist Than Other Men |
Above, crowds at the 2017 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo; photo by Rick Garcia/@IndustryByRickAn academic survey conducted at the 2017 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, as AVN.com reported at the time, has finally released its results, and in the description of the sociologists who conducted the study, those findings âcall into question some of the claims that porn consumption fosters de facto negative and hostile attitudes towards women.â An earlier study, conducted in 2013, reinforced the widespread view that âexposure to pornography was related to and increased sexist attitudesâ in men. But at least among men who attended the 2017 AVN Expoâmen described as âporn superfansâ by the researchersâthe research by an international team of academics from the United States and Australia found that the earlier study did not reflect reality.âWe found that âporn superfansâ are no more sexist or misogynistic than the general U.S. public,â on two of the four topics they quizzed AVN Expo-goers about. And on the other two topics, the AVN Expo attendees âheld more progressive genderârole attitudes than the general public.âWhat were those topics? The researchers grilled the âsuperfansâ on their views regarding whether there should be âaffirmative actionâ for women in the workplace, working mothers, traditional gender roles within the family structure, and finally, the role of women in politics.The study found that on the questions regarding women in politics and women in the workplace, there were no significant differences in attitude between AVN attendees and men in the general population. But on the issues of whether women who work can also fulfill their role as mothers, and gender roles within the family, the survey participants were actually less sexist than average.In fact, on the issue of working mothers, the AVN Expo-goers âwere over three times more likely to endorse the idea that working mothers can establish as warm and secure relationships with their children as mothers who do not work."The studyâs conclusions, published in the journal Sociological Forum, paint porn fansâat least those who make the effort to attend the annual AVN Expoâas far more enlightened than the general stereotype. And they further show that âporn cultureâ is not the threat to public order and morality that anti-porn crusaders would have America believe.âPorn cultures do not strengthen a hegemonic masculinity entirely predicated on negative attitudes toward women, as porn critics fear,â the studyâs authors wrote.Photo By LasVegasVegas.com / Wikimedia Commons
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