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Male Pornography Viewers' Perceptions Of Asian Women, Caitlyn M. Koerner
Male Pornography Viewers' Perceptions Of Asian Women, Caitlyn M. Koerner
Honors Undergraduate Theses
Objectification and sexual aggression are common themes in pornography. However, there are only a handful of quantitative studies that examine the role of race in pornography that included Asian women, a population that has been fetishized extensively and historically portrayed as hypersexual in mainstream media. There were also no studies on the self-reported attitudes of viewers around this topic. 96 male university students took a survey measuring the frequency and perception of their pornography use, their acceptance of sexual aggression myths, their objectification of Asian women, and their propensity to agree with microaggressions about Asian women. Results indicated that while …