The Influence of Third-Person Effects on Support for Restrictions of Internet Pornography among College Students in Shanghai and Hong Kong

The term pornography has been loosely applied to many forms of explicit and nonexplicit depictions of human sexual activity. For some, pornography is defi ned as depictions that elicit or are intended to elicit sexual arousal in the viewer (Brown and Bryant, 1989). Others have suggested that depictions be labeled pornographic only if they include degrading and dehumanizing portrayals of women, not simply if they are sexually arousing (Dines, Jensen, and Russo, 1998). The defi nition of pornography depends on the culture of the communities, and the debate continues over what constitutes pornography and what constitutes art.