Watching sexually explicit material is just one ‘small to moderate’ factor that influences sexual behavior in teens and young adults.

The researchers found that over 88 percent of men and 45 percent of women had watched pornography in the last 12 months. But when the researchers tried to find the link between pornography and sexual behavior, they found that the relationship was a modest one with the participants’ own personal dispositions having a greater influence. The study has been published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine
“There has been a sort of moral panic – sometimes in Britain and in the U.S. especially – about the influence of pornography on sexual behaviours. And although this study can’t claim to investigate cause and effect, it can still say that there are a lot of other factors that determine sexual behaviours, so maybe we should put the debate into a larger perspective instead of being just one-sided”, Hald said.
Source-Medindia