Löfgren-Mårtenson and Månsson used 22 individual interviews and seven focus groups with Swedish participants aged 14 to 20. They describe normalization and ambivalence rather than a uniform response. Pornography functioned as social intercourse, a source of information, and a stimulus for sexual arousal.
Participants also treated pornographic bodies and performances as reference points for sexual scripts. Young men reported more use than young women, while the young women more often had to reconcile arousal with a gendered stigma against acknowledging pornography use. Most participants displayed reflective strategies for interpreting what they encountered.
The sample consisted mainly of self-selecting, normative middle-class young people. The study therefore illuminates meanings and interpretive practices; it cannot estimate prevalence, identify long-term effects, or represent adolescents at greatest risk.
The preserved artifact is the article. It informs Pornography literacy and harm reduction.
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