| Sumario: | People tend to perceive socially undesirable media, such as pornography, as having a more negative effect on others than on themselves. This study examined how this phenomenon, called the third-person effect, manifests when the pornography has positive connotations, as with instructional pornography. Participants (n= 229) were asked to rate how instructional adult films would affect them, their partner, and other people. Unlike non-instructional pornography, participants perceived instructional pornography as having a positive effect. Participants perceived other men and women as more positively affected by informational pornography than themselves, but perceived themselves as more positively affected than their closest friend. Participants with partners reported that they and their partner would be equally positively affected by instructional pornography. Findings are discussed in light of genre-specific pornography effects and the possible use of instructional pornography as an educational tool.
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