Viewing Child Pornography: Prevalence and Correlates in a Representative Community Sample of Young Swedish Men

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Tập 44 - Trang 67-79 - 2014
Michael C. Seto1, Chantal A. Hermann2, Cecilia Kjellgren3, Gisela Priebe3,4, Carl Göran Svedin5, Niklas Långström6
1Integrated Forensic Program, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Brockville, Canada
2Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
3Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
4Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University,, Lund, Sweden
5Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
6Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Tóm tắt

Most research on child pornography use has been based on selected clinical or criminal justice samples; risk factors for child pornography use in the general population remain largely unexplored. In this study, we examined prevalence, risk factors, and correlates of viewing depictions of adult–child sex in a population-representative sample of 1,978 young Swedish men (17–20 years, Mdn = 18 years, overall response rate, 77 %). In an anonymous, school-based survey, participants self-reported sexual coercion experiences, attitudes and beliefs about sex, perceived peer attitudes, and sexual interests and behaviors; including pornography use, sexual interest in children, and sexually coercive behavior. A total of 84 (4.2 %) young men reported they had ever viewed child pornography. Most theory-based variables were moderately and significantly associated with child pornography viewing and were consistent with models of sexual offending implicating both antisociality and sexual deviance. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, 7 of 15 tested factors independently predicted child pornography viewing and explained 42 % of the variance: ever had sex with a male, likely to have sex with a child aged 12–14, likely to have sex with a child 12 or less, perception of children as seductive, having friends who have watched child pornography, frequent pornography use, and ever viewed violent pornography. From these, a 6-item Child Pornography Correlates Scale was constructed and then cross-validated in a similar but independent Norwegian sample.

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