Pornography May Provide , Existential Escape From Boredom, , Study Suggests.<br />PsyPost reports that a new study has suggested that <br />people who perceive their lives as meaningless may be more <br />likely to turn to pornographic material as a distraction.<br />Previously, my colleagues and <br />I found that when people experience <br />boredom, it poses a threat to their <br />sense of meaning in life, Andrew B. Moynihan, study author at <br />the University of Limerick, via PsyPost.<br />As an escape from this adverse <br />existential experience, people may <br />subsequently engage in hedonic behaviors, Andrew B. Moynihan, study author at <br />the University of Limerick, via PsyPost.<br />According to the study, people prone to <br />boredom and emotional avoidance often mediate <br />feelings of meaninglessness with pornography use.<br />Specifically, our study suggests that <br />pornography consumption, at least <br />in some circumstances, may function <br />as a means of dealing with perceived <br />meaninglessness, signaled by boredom. , Andrew B. Moynihan, study author at <br />the University of Limerick, via PsyPost.<br />Our study incorporates pornography <br />consumption as a means of existential <br />escape from threats to meaning in life. <br />To our knowledge, this phenomenon <br />has not been researched previously <br />in the existential escape literature, Andrew B. Moynihan, study author at <br />the University of Limerick, via PsyPost.<br />PsyPost reports that the findings match a previous study <br />which found that a perceived lack of meaning was associated <br />with boredom susceptibility and sexual sensation seeking.<br />Future research should aim <br />to replicate the findings in our paper <br />using experience sampling or <br />experimental methods, longitudinal, <br />or (latent) cross-lagged designs, Andrew B. Moynihan, study author at <br />the University of Limerick, via PsyPost.<br />'Pornography consumption as existential <br />escape from boredom' was published in <br />'Personality and Individual Differences.'
