06/25/2024
By Karen Mullins
The School of Criminology and Justice Studies is proud to announce a Dissertation Proposal Defense by AnaCristina Bedoya entitled, "The Kinda Shit You Get on Your TV: Exploring the Role of Pornography Use on the Sexual Scripts and Psychological and Sexual Wellbeing of Survivors of Sexual Assault."
Date: Thursday, July 11
Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST
Location: Health and Social Sciences Building Room 431 and via Zoom
Committee:
- Neil Shortland, Chair, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, UML
- Joseph Gonzales, Department of Psychology, UML
- Amber Horning-Ruf, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, UML
- Jennifer Johnson, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech
- Ryan Shields, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, UML
ABSTRACT: A robust body of literature has examined the effect of pornography use on human behavior, especially the role of pornography influencing the perpetration of sexual assault. Despite many studies looking at the link between sexual assault perpetration and pornography use, little-to-no research to date has explored sexual assault survivors’ pornography use and how their psychological and sexual wellbeing may be affected by pornography. This study will use mixed methods, survey data and interviews, to (1) explore the relationship between pornography use and survivor sexual scripts, and (2) examine how survivors' pornography use and sexual scripts are associated with their psychological and sexual wellbeing. The proposed study is an important contribution to victimology due to focusing on wellbeing outcomes of victim-survivors specifically in the context of pornography.