Agree/Disagree: Watching Bareback Porn Leads To Bareback Sex

[naughtycute82]

I'm reading an academic article this morning by Kai J. Jonas, a researcher from the University of Amsterdam, who did research on the impact of bareback porn on it's viewers. Results indicate that watching bareback porn lowers the threshold for viewers to engage in bareback sex.

This new study didn't make many headlines, assumably because Jonas and his team mention clearly in their article that further research is needed and that the conclusion is not 'Watching bareback porn will make you a barebacker' but rather 'Viewers will more easily consider engaging in sex without a condom after watching bareback porn'. But there were some voices on social media which were quite surprised at the outcome. Though the loudest comments attacked the research method rather than the conclusion.

Note: From an academic viewpoint, the research method is solid. Jonas even notes why they chose this approach. So it is irrelevant to criticize the method, I'd much rather like to debate the conclusion.

Study 1

Jonas and his team conducted two studies. In Study 1 focused on the theory that watching bareback porn lowers the threshold to engage in bareback sex. 220 gay men watched DVD covers after which they reported about their sexual behavior. The results indicate the theory to be correct: those who are confronted with bareback sex images will more easily engage in bareback sex. Jonas does mention a lot of factors that influence such a choice (e.g. HIV-status) but overall the result supports the theory

Study 2

This study focused on the practice of bareback sex. 34 men were given a bag with condoms etc. to go out in a local bar where sex videos were shown and sex parties were hosted. (Cruise Club Church if I'm not mistaken.) The men reported afterwards on their sexual behavior. The results of this study indicate that viewers of bareback porn video footage will more easily engage in bareback sex. Again Jonas mentions factors that influence such a choice, but this time too the results support the theory.

Discussion

Jonas and his team conclude that watching bareback porn will have viewers engage more easily in bareback sex. These studies are limited, more research is definitely needed, Jonas and his team state. But their research could be of importance to sex health workers and organisations, sex locations as well as porn producers. One option the researchers mention is analogue to the way society currently deals with tobacco and alcohol: warning viewers about the risks of bareback sex on DVD-boxes, through banners on bareback porn websites or on locations where bareback porn is shown. As an 'educated viewer' is expected to be more aware of risks and to make a more conscious decision about whether or not to engage in bareback sex.

What do you think? Are you more likely to engage in bareback sex after watching bareback porn? And do you think putting warnings about risks on DVD-covers, sex sites and sex locations could prevent men from barebacking?

Note/Personal Opinion: I will be the last one on earth to say people should not have bareback sex, but I personally think it could do no harm to add such a warning to bareback pornography. If we do it with smoking and alcohol consumption, why not with porn? Also, people that want to bareback will bareback, but it is better when someone makes a conscious choice to do so instead of it (having bareback sex) happening accidentally.

If you would like a copy of this research article, send me a message or get in the comments. (It is 300kb, breedingzone's limit for .pdf is 200kb.)

[ChaserBoysRHot]

I disagree. Watching bareback porn is no more (or at least not significantly more) likely to make someone actually chase than playing 1st-person shooter games will make someone actually kill someone. A guy will be much more influenced by the cock next to him in bed poking at his hole than he will a video.

[atlfukbud]

I think the preference for bb comes first (or is innate probably), so maybe we're looking to normalize it or to not feel guilty about doing what already feels natural?

[slowfuck]

I agree with atlfukbud and ChaserBoysRHot. I think those who bareback are those who want to bareback because they like it not because they've seen it on a DVD. It's far more complex than some reaction to what they are seeing on a porn video. If they are playing DVDs of straight sex I'm not likely to warm to the idea of fucking a woman bare or wrapped than I am now. If they're being showing DVDs in a bar that feature bareback sex then those who want to do it will perhaps feel it's perhaps not frowned up to do it if there are other guys who feel encouraged to do it there too, but the majority of safe sex guys will tut and go on rubbering up. Bareback sex is always more prevalent in darkrooms where identity is hidden so I think it's bound up with avoiding any disapproval - something the study may have done by virtue of telling them its ok to fuck bareback after watching the porn so long as they tell the researcher.

To answer your question, I am no more likely to fuck bareback after having seen a DVD of raw fucking than I would before.

I thought there already were warnings on DVD cases and on the lead in to the content, are there not? I personally am happy for that to continue with perhaps more up to date and relevant messages.

However, the majority of people watch porn on tube sites or pay sites these days so it would not be seen by the majority of guys out there who do need to be educated about the actual risks so they can make informed decisions.

[Bttm2go]

I think the urge to have bareback sex is already there. Bareback porn may make it easier to go bareback because you are seeing it on tape. It would be interesting if a study was done on guys watching condom sex if it would increase condom usage. I don't think it would. Barebacking is natural. Wearing a condom is not natural. Because for most HIV poz guys it's no longer a death sentence, we are reverting back to what comes naturally.

[Guest JizzDumpWI]

I agree with above posts, at least in general. Survey the population and you're bound to find someone who was influenced by bareback porn. But most of us find the notion of reaching for something to wrap the pecker foreign... Natural sex is what one does when meeting up and no condoms are around (for those conditioned to condom sex). Now, none of us here represent an impartial demographic. We are here to breed/be bred. So asking us is probably not the best place toask the question.

I can say for me, the notion of condom sex isn't anything I've ever gone for except in my early adult life to avoid pregnancy when I had sex with women not on the pill. Sex with men has never included condoms for me. When I see condom port, that looks weird to me...

[bberik]

Is there a link online, where I can read about it? I don't want the whole report, but would be glad if there's a link that anyone can click on, because I'd like to ask this question in a forum in my own country. Would be great to be able to post a link to a source.

[bberik]

BTW, there are already warnings on the dvd boxes and in the film itself before the films start, about the hazards of barebacking.

But not on private videos naturally. And private videos will still be posted online.

[fskn]

I think watching bareback porn does make men want to try barebacking, if they don't already do it.

As for a warning label, I think it would be silly. It's hard to imagine a series of labels that would have the same impact as the ones that the US Surgeon General slaps on cigarette cartons.

How about this?

"Warming: Barebacking is addictive."

[Guest JizzDumpWI]

"Warning: Barebacking is addictive."

Hey! I represent that remark!!!

[expdbijock35]

I first tried bareback sex and then got into watching bb porn myself.....

[curiousone]

I won't say bareback porn directly influenced me but it does play a factor. I used to be a very big condom nazi, pushing condoms on myself, partners and friends.

I remember my first porn before that...Sean Cody...I would always watch Sean Cody, then it went to Randy Blue. I never found Treasure Island Media that attractive and parts of it repulsed me.

It wasn't until a few years later where I met with a top late at night and happened to be super horny and overdue for sex that he just pushed in his cock raw and came before I even had a chance to slip on a condom. A month later another top claimed he wanted to use condoms then went in me bare.

I got super paranoid afterwards. I even got sick and was convinced I had caught something. Got tested everything came but clean which immediately planted the bareback seed in me. Two guys had fucked me raw, came inside and I hadn't caught anything. It kind of dispelled the myth for me that not using condoms meant you would automatically contract an STD...That's what everyone says. No condom = instant HIV..

I would say bareback porn certainly stimulates the desire...At the end of the day it's my choice alone. I think the best most conscious thing porn companies can do is display a warning that bareback sex comes with risks. That keeps me grounded.

[Guest]

I think bareback porn , seeing sperm oozing out of a guy and the top squirting all over his ass, or the bottom swallowing does make you want the same. I always bareback, and bareback porn really turns me on, but not sure if seeing it makes you more likely if you don't bareback already

[Verbal76]

I think it's the quality of the porn. Things like Treasure Island not only showed me bb porn, but they showed real-looking guys. It seemed a lot of the bb studios, especially when bb porn was newer had guys who looked more, for lack of a better term, normal. The scenes seemed more like real sex and not soft-focused, heavily-waxed, impossible-to-attain bodies, cheesy music porn that I had been used to seeing.

There was just something more "real" about the bb porn guys

[naughtycute82]

BTW, there are already warnings on the dvd boxes and in the film itself before the films start, about the hazards of barebacking.

Hmm, I must have been skipping those warnings hehe. On a serious note though, I don't often see those warnings. I used to work in a store where they used to place stickers on DVD boxes themselves. Maybe the placing of such warnings could be a regional difference?

As for the article, I don't have any english language sources unfortunately. It got covered by a few mainstream papers but not my a lot of gay media. I got the article myself by contacting the researcher.

Some sources I googled:

Press release about this research on the website of the University of Amsterdam (Google Translate?): http://www.uva.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/uva-nieuws/content/persberichten/2014/05/%E2%80%98bareback%E2%80%99-porno-van-invloed-op-intentie-tot-veilige-seks.html

Abstract/summary through Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261610328_Bareback_Pornography_Consumption_and_Safe-Sex_Intentions_of_Men_Having_Sex_with_Men