Pornography consumption and non-marital sexual behaviour in a sample of young Indonesian university students
Using a sample of Indonesian university students and a cross sectional design, this study investigated prevalence rates and patterns of pornography consumption in Indonesia, a religious, sexually conservative, Muslim-majority nation with strict anti-pornography laws. Further, the association
between pornography consumption and common non-marital sexual behaviours was explored. The study found that in this sample, pornography is as widely and readily consumed as in comparable international studies predominantly utilising Western background samples from more sexually liberal and
less religious countries with very few laws on pornography. Gender differences in patterns of pornography consumption were pronounced and comparable with findings in international counterpart studies. For men only, pornography consumption was found to significantly predict common sexual behaviours
in non-marital relations. The study is the first to provide insights into prevalence rates and patterns of pornography consumption and its association with common non-marital sexual behaviours in a sexually conservative, Muslim-majority nation with strict anti-pornography laws.
Keywords: Indonesia; pornography; sexual behaviour; sexually explicit materials
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Public Health, Clinic of Sexology, Copenhagen University Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2: Faculty of Psychology, University of Surabaya, Indonesia
Publication date: 01 September 2013
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