Watching Pornography with a Partner is Good for the Relationship

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Pornography is a one of the largest topics that are shunned in today’s culture. How pornography in committed relationships is handled is a problem you do not hear about all the time. In Logan Hill’s (2013) article helps understand the reasoning behind why partners watch porn and at the end explains how to deal with this issue. Hill (2013) identifies that watching pornography with your partner will make the other feel less anxious by knowing the unknown (Hill, 2013). Hill (2013) also implies that another reason why the feeling of inadequacy approaches one is by self-esteem reasons (Hill, 2013). The thought of perfect women/man in the pornography the partner is watching creates thoughts like: “I wish I looked like that” (Hill, 2013). Throughout this essay there will be experimental research and course material from lecture and a textbook to prove that this article is giving correct information.
The lust evolution theory in Pitman’s (2014) lecture connects to Hill’s (2013) article. Hormones are a huge part of life, especially in a relationship. They control the amounts of metabolism released and growth in our body. Most importantly hormones produce a need for reproduction causing a sex drive towards other mates. This theory connects to Hill’s (2013) article by connecting the sex drive to unsatisfying sex life. If one person in a relationship is watching pornography there is a chance of them having more hormones than the other person. Since it is in male nature to have more sex drive, this theory fits extremely well with feeling inadequate. One partner may feel satisfied but because of hormones the other might not. There should be no feelings of inadequate, since it’s just our bodies releasing different amounts of horm...

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...rger percentage of the men who watch pornography communicate to their partner more negatively then those who don’t watch much pornography (cite).
As Internet grows and the ways you can go onto the Internet expand pornography will be more accessible by many people all over the world. As this grows the pornography industry and views will grow as well. In conclusion more partners will be watching pornography and we need to know why and how to cope with this change. The article by Hill (2013) gives great advice by watching with your partner or dealing with self-esteem and understanding that if your partner watches pornography not to think you are doing something wrong (Hill, 2013). In conclusion, when it comes down to changing the advice in the article by Hill (2013), no changes can be found connecting it to the research article by Poulsen, Busby & Galovan (2013).

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