Very often it depicts people engaging in nonmarital, casual sexual encounters involving coitus, oral-genital, and other acts, and contains considerable variety in partners and positions. Materials that are liked produce more positive emotions and greater sexual arousal than those that are disliked, for both sexes. Nonetheless, sexual arousal may occur even when people are mildly offended. Individuals who hold authoritarian beliefs and have conservative social and religious attitudes tend to experience more sex guilt and react more negatively to explicit materials. Even if they do experience arousal, they judge the material to be undesirable.
Hypermasculine men tend to hold more negative and sexist attitudes toward women.
They also are likely to believe that women respond positively to dominant, aggressive men. These men react more positively to scenes of sexual aggression and degrading portrayals of women. Most people, both men and women, respond negatively to this type of material. Changes in sexual attitudes and sexual behavior. Repeated exposure generally increases tolerance of explicit material and to the behaviors depicted, except for those who start out with negative attitudes.