Media Psychological Reflections on the Organizational Framework of Sexual Media’s Influence on Users’ Short- vs. Long-Term Sexual Quality

The organizational framework presented in Leonhardt, Spencer, Butler, and Theobald’s (2018) Target Article provides an interesting perspective on the moderators and mediators that allow us to understand the relationship between sexual media use and users’ sexuality. By bridging insights from pornogr...

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Published in:Archives of sexual behavior 2019-11, Vol.48 (8), p.2283-2289
Main Author: Vandenbosch, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Commentary
Couples
Mass Media
Personal relationships
Pornography & obscenity
Psychology
Public Health
Sexual Behavior
Sexuality
Social Sciences
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Summary:The organizational framework presented in Leonhardt, Spencer, Butler, and Theobald’s (2018) Target Article provides an interesting perspective on the moderators and mediators that allow us to understand the relationship between sexual media use and users’ sexuality. By bridging insights from pornography research with couple studies and sexual motivation literature, Leonhardt et al. theorize and present a framework that is labelled in this Commentary: the Model of Mediated Script Sources. The model aims to reshape the field of sexual media effects by (1) describing a categorization of sexual media content, (2) unfolding moderators of sexual content adaption processes, (3) conceptualizing outcomes of long-term and shortterm sexual quality, and (4) theorizing the interplay between the acquired mediated sexual scripts and the couple context in which the scripts are applied. By providing a new explanatory framework, the inconsistency that has been reported across sexual media studies is aimed to be addressed.
ISSN:0004-0002
1573-2800
DOI:10.1007/s10508-018-1373-6