Materials provide info about sex

porninf

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 221. The next questions are about pornography - books, movies, magazines, and photographs that show or describe sex activities. I'm going to read some opinions about the effects of looking at or reading such sexual materials. As I read each one, please tell me if you think sexual materials do or do not have that effect: a. Sexual materials provide information about sex.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no	no answer	yes	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	83	488	5	928	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	127	434	4	925	1490
1976	-	105	544	6	844	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	92	498	3	939	1532
1980	-	107	504	3	854	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	79	559	8	953	1599
1984	-	74	547	10	842	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	75	555	4	836	1470
1987	-	118	568	9	1124	1819
1988	484	63	350	4	580	1481
1989	502	52	392	5	586	1537
1990	473	56	339	2	502	1372
1991	500	66	386	2	563	1517
1993	549	55	419	10	573	1606
1994	1965	51	367	4	605	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	2832	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	2817	-	-	-	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	2812	-	-	-	-	2812
2006	4510	-	-	-	-	4510
2008	2023	-	-	-	-	2023
2010	2044	-	-	-	-	2044
2012	1974	-	-	-	-	1974
2014	2538	-	-	-	-	2538
2016	2867	-	-	-	-	2867
2018	2348	-	-	-	-	2348
2021	4032	-	-	-	-	4032
2022	3544	-	-	-	-	3544
Total	52504	1203	6950	79	11654	72390

Values

• 1 yes

• 2 no

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(q) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook