She received a 6 month scholarship from Monash University. Pornography is ubiquitous, highly accessible, and vivid. It is increasingly influential in the sex lives and sexual development of consumers around the world. Public discussion of pornography tends to emphasise its potential for harm. However, our research investigating what pornography means to women aged who have or intend to have sex with men, found its contribution to their lives was complex and often contradictory. Most of the 27 women we interviewed said they found pleasure in pornography.