ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Pornography addiction is associated with numerous influences on sexual behaviour and various other aspects of the lives of young persons and these influences ranges from positive to negative which also affects the society as the population of young persons is predominant in our society.
OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of pornography addiction and its influence on sexual behaviour among undergraduates in the University of Benin as well as the knowledge of the students, the attitude of the students towards pornography, the sexual behaviour of the undergraduates and the perception of the effect of pornography on the sexual behaviour of the students were assessed in this study.
METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was adopted for this study using a sample size of four hundred and fifty respondents; calculated using a proportion of 15.5%. Respondents were then selected using a multistage sampling technique and a structured self administered questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Scientific Solutions (SPSS) version 25.0 and quantitative variable
will be represented as frequency tables, contingency tables and pie charts for statistical analysis. Level of significance set at p<0.050 and 95% Confidence Interval.
RESULTS: The knowledge of pornography among the respondents was poor 14.3%, 22.6% and 63.2% of respondents had good, fair and poor knowledge of pornography respectively. The association between the age of the respondents and the knowledge of pornography was significant (p=0.025). 81% of the respondents had a negative attitude towards pornography. The level of addiction among the respondents showed that 1.9%, 38.0% and 60.1% of the respondents were addicted, not addicted and at risk of addiction respectively. The sexual behaviour of the respondents revealed that 7.5% practiced risky sexual behaviour and 92.5% practiced non-risky sexual behaviour.
CONCLUSION: The knowledge of pornography among the respondents was poor and the attitude towards it was negative, most the undergraduates practiced non risky sexual behaviour.
