Despite the high production and consumption of pornography in Brazil, there seems to be no empirical study in this country that investigates the relationship between the use of pornography and sexual aggression. The present study addressed empirically the relationship between pornography consumption and perpetration of sexual aggression in male college students in Brazil. The results showed that 99.7% of the sample had contact with pornographic material and, of those, 54.3% used it occasionally or frequently. The data indicated that perpetrators showed higher means of pornography consumption than non-perpetrators and suggested that the consumption of violent pornography increased the severity of the sexual aggression perpetrated. Because of the study was based in a cross-sectional design, the results should be taken with caution. Implications and recommendations for future research are pointed out.
pornography; gender inequality; sexual aggression
