No Gender Differences in Enrollment for Replicated, Minimally-Different ‘Pornographic’ Versus ‘Photographic’ Studies
(2021) International Journal of Sexual Health — Vol. 34, n° 1, p. 130-143 (2021)
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MacEacheron, Melanie 
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- Since women tend to use pornography less than men, they may tend to enroll less in studies concerning pornography and/or those who do may be atypical for their gender. One study and a replication assessed (1) the proportion of participants who responded to each of two, minimally-different study advertisements, who reported being women, and (2) pornography use frequency, Erotophilia-Erotophobia, and Openness to Experience among such women. Pornography was mentioned in one advertisement but not the other. The proportion of participants who were women, who responded to each advertisement, did not differ. Women who responded to each of the two advertisements differed only in Openness to Experience, and only in one of the two samples. These findings are consistent with surveys advertising using the word 'pornographic' to North American university convenience samples, not producing (i) self-selection out by women, or (ii) over-sampling of gender-atypical women in the presumably-relevant variables noted under (2).
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MacEacheron, M., Kohut, T., & Fisher, W. A. (2021). No Gender Differences in Enrollment for Replicated, Minimally-Different ‘Pornographic’ Versus ‘Photographic’ Studies. International Journal of Sexual Health, 34(1), 130-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2021.1944420 (Original work published 2021)