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Sex and “the City”: Financial stress and online pornography consumption

We examine the effects of financial stress on online pornography consumption. We use novel data on daily accesses to one of the most popular porn website (xHamster) for 43 different cities belonging to 10 countries for the year 2016. In financial cities, in which people are more likely to be affecte...

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Autores principales: Donadelli, Michael, Lalanne, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7398053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2020.100379
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spelling pubmed-73980532020-08-04 Sex and “the City”: Financial stress and online pornography consumption Donadelli, Michael Lalanne, Marie J Behav Exp Finance Article We examine the effects of financial stress on online pornography consumption. We use novel data on daily accesses to one of the most popular porn website (xHamster) for 43 different cities belonging to 10 countries for the year 2016. In financial cities, in which people are more likely to be affected by financial stress, we observe that on average online porn viewing decreases as financial stress increases. We present some evidence suggesting the causing channel to be altered mood. Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7398053/ /pubmed/32835012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2020.100379 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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