An observational study in Exposure to Pornography, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer. Recruiting at 1 site in France. Open to female participants aged 11 Years to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-10.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer · Observational
This qualitative study aims to explore the experiences, meanings, and uses of pornography among female adolescents and young women receiving care in child and adolescent psychiatry services. Participants aged 12 to 25 years will be recruited from inpatient and outpatient settings. Exclusion criteria will include an acute psychotic episode or an acute mood episode that could compromise participation in an interview.
Using semi-structured interviews, the study will examine the circumstances and age of first exposure to pornography; participants' emotional responses and evolving perceptions; subsequent patterns of viewing, use, avoidance, or sharing; and the roles pornography may play in their lives. Particular attention will be paid to its possible functions in relation to curiosity, sexual learning, arousal, identity exploration, peer relationships, emotional regulation, coercion, or distress.
The interviews will also explore how participants perceive the place of pornography in their relational and sexual trajectories, including its potential influence on expectations, consent, body image, sexual practices, intimate relationships, and current sexual life. Rather than assuming that pornography has uniformly harmful or beneficial effects, the study will seek to understand its diverse, ambivalent, and context-dependent meanings.
Finally, participants will be invited to formulate recommendations concerning public policy, pornography regulation, prevention, and sexuality education. By centring the perspectives of young female psychiatric service users, this study aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of pornography within contemporary adolescent development and clinical care.
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Girls aged 11 to 25 years who are being treated in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department at CHITS or the follow-up clinic
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Exclusion Criteria:
Teenage girls - young women aged 11-25 who have been exposed to pornography
Other: Semi structured interview
Semi structured interview
Qualitative content analysis of emotional experiences assessed via semi-structured interviews
Description of significant consequences experienced by female patients after viewing pornographic content: Cross coding of the verbatim
Time frame: At the single study visit (Day 1)
identify the main themes and their relationship to the patients' contexts
Analysis of the individual interviews in accordance with the principles of grounded theory
Time frame: At the single study visit (Day 1)
describe the various ways in which people access pornographic content
Analysis of the individual interviews in accordance with the principles of grounded theory
Time frame: At the single study visit (Day 1)
Started Apr 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2026, 20 months after the start.
Of 265 non-industry observational studies under Wounds and Injuries, half reached primary completion within 28 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 60. This study's planned 20 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 312 studies reached it within 28 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 60.
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