Pornography’s Ubiquitous External Ejaculation: Predictors of Perceptions

Kuato2012 · 2022-12-10T19:49:25+00:00

It's funny to me that anyone would posit cumshots as acts of degradation in the first place. Porn geared toward men is >95% visual. That's it... that's the reason. Internal ejaculation feels great but doesn't have the same visual effect.

Its the same reason some guys are into female "ejaculation" videos... It adds more of a visual element to the orgasm.

UnHope20 · 2022-12-10T15:33:12+00:00

One of the most contentious topics in the sexual arena is that of pornography. While some researchers focus on the costs and benefits of consumption, others focus on questions surrounding the objectification or degradation of women, with relatively little focus on the men involved, and the appeal of visual sexual stimuli more generally, including what that may tell us about the sexual interests of the consumers. In this study, we focus on what factors influence men’s and women’s perceptions of sexually explicit images, in particular the ubiquitous external ejaculation.

Sex differences in perceptions of the images are examined as well as the influence of the emotional affect of the recipient of the ejaculation, the sexual orientation of the participant (are they looking at an image of their preferred sex or not), and a number of individual difference factors, including religiosity, Dark Triad personality traits, mate value, short-term mating strategy, and disgust sensitivity.

Overall, the largest influences on perceptions were the direct effects of target emotional affect and sex, sex of viewer, sexual orientation of viewer, short-term mating orientation, and level of sexual disgust. In addition, substantial variation in perceptions was explained by the interaction between sex, sexual orientation, and target sex.

The importance of positive affect in the images as well as the lack of association with psychopathy again suggests that the appeal (or at least the ubiquity of the images in pornographic material) is not rooted in degradation, but in some other aspect of short-term sexual psychology.

Oncefa2 · 2023-01-11T18:45:33+00:00

Here's an article about the study that interviewed the authors.

https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/psychology-researchers-are-taking-a-serious-look-at-64421

Some academics and lay people have suggested that the goal of pornography is to degrade women and have used the external ejaculation as an example of such. However, I didn’t find this convincing, as there are a lot of external ejaculations in gay porn without any women around. In addition, I had read an article in Playboy by James Petersen and he made an interesting point: ‘What makes ejaculating on the outside degrading…while ejaculating inside… sacred? …masturbating guys ejaculate on their own bodies all the time and not one says ‘Oh God, I just degraded myself.'

Basically they found that men enjoyed those scenes more if the women looked like she was enjoying it.

Women on average liked the scenes less (consistent with enjoying pornography less) but still followed the same pattern.

So this contradicts the idea that men enjoy porn because of power fantasies or to degrade women. It is instead consistent with other research that shows men get off on their partners having fun with them.

Title	Pornography’s Ubiquitous External Ejaculation: Predictors of Perceptions
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	10
Comments	9
Date	December 10, 2022 3:29 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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