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    Pornography Consumption among Addis Ababa University-Main Campus Students: Implications on Behavioural Patterns of Male and Female Students
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-08) Biruktawit Berhanu; Dilu Shaleka (Ph.D)
    This study is aimed to explore pornographic consumption at Addis Ababa University with the view to assess its implication on the behavioral patterns of male and female students on the main campus. The accessibility of advanced internet technology has fundamentally altered how young people, especially students, come into contact with and consume sexually explicit content. It is now possible to access the internet via laptop, smart phone, video game, consoles, and other electronic devices as opposed to the past when it was only possible via a person in all of the world nations. Watching pornography is utilized as an alternative source of sexually related knowledge in Africa because it is difficult to find such information elsewhere. Ethiopia, a developing nation in Africa, is distinguished by its high rate of pornography consumption, but on the contrary, there is a lack of access to alternative information about the negative and positive effects it possesses on sexual and reproductive health. Besides, to achieve the goals of the study, the student researcher used mixed research methods. To generate qualitative data, in-depth interviews and key informant interviews were employed, while the cross-sectional survey method was applied to collect quantitative data. In depth interviews of five volunteer pornography consumers were conducted, while three key informants were interviewed. Also, the data collected from primary and secondary sources were analysed numerically and narratively. The study results show that watching pornography is common among students at Addis Ababa University's main campus among four selected departments. Despite this, male participants consume twice as much porn as female participants. According to the findings, pornography has both negative and positive effects on students. The positive effects of pornography consumption on students include learning new sex styles or acts, increasing sexual satisfaction by using different sexual acts, and learning more about sex. Negative effects include premarital sex, feeling guilt/regret, having unrealistic expectations for dating partners and themselves, and so on, lack of confidence, and obtaining poor academic grade performance. Furthermore, female 51.4% and 56.4% of male participants, argue that pornography leads to and aggravates violence against women. However, no significant difference in the opinion of the pornography effect was found.