Porn can play a positive role in promoting safer sex by encouraging condom use among men suggests new research. Men who view more sexually explicit pornography where condoms were used were less likely to have anal sex without a condom themselves the findings showed. The findings published online in the journal PLOS One showed no evidence of a public health problem stemming from watching most internet-based sexually explicit media. Actually one type of pornography was associated with higher rates of condom use -- men who viewed more pornography containing condom use engaged in fewer condomless anal sex encounters said one
