Cue Don Jon, (what I considered to be) a headache of a movie filled with overdone accents, too much heavy breathing, and a plethora of porn viewing. Don Jon the porn addict and Barbara, his incredibly hot girlfriend, struggle through making a relationship work when she was raised on old-school values and he…well, we see what made him on the home front. Despite having incredible sex with his girlfriend, he can’t escape his world of porn and everything else in his life appears lesser. It creates a huge divide between them as he constantly reverts to his fantasy land, raising worries regarding the effects excessive porn viewing might have on sexual satisfaction and in turn, a relationship, as the above study found that “Exposure to SEIM exerts a consistent negative impact on sexual satisfaction" (Jochen and Valkenburg, 2010).

However, I am faced with two contradictory
theories regarding the effects of this movie. Jochen and Valkenburg also found that “The negative effect of SEIM on sexual satisfaction
became weaker as adolescents’ level of sexual experience increased and
effectively no longer existed for adolescents with great sexual experience.” Don
Jon was certainly not lacking in the field of sexual experience, which would
refute the argument that his exposure to SEIM was causing a decrease in his
real life sexual satisfaction. Therefore, I am left with contradictions that I
am not sure how to reconcile.
References
Peter, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2009). Adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit Internet material and sexual satisfaction: A longitudinal study. Human Communication Research, 35(2), 171-194. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01343.x
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