**Testing Additional Hypotheses**
Our previous analyses indicate that partners' and actors' solitary pornography use are negatively associated with sexual satisfaction, and the interaction between these two variables is positive. This interaction held after controlling for shared pornography use, which was positively associated with sexual satisfaction. We now want to test whether actors’ perceptions of their partner’s pornography use interacts with these variables and is associated with sexual satisfaction. We believe that the effects of perceptions of partners’ porn use will supersede the effects of partners’ actual porn use. Essentially, we propose that even if there is discordance in porn use, if the actor does not perceive that discordance then there may not be a significant negative association with sexual satisfaction.
**Hypothesis 1**: Similar to the previous results for partners’ use, actor’s perceptions of their partner’s use will be negatively associated with sexual satisfaction, and the interaction between actors’ use and actors’ perceptions of their partner’s use will be positive.
**Hypothesis 2**: Actors’ perceptions of their partner’s use will reduce or negate the association of partners’ use with sexual satisfaction.
**Hypothesis 3**: We do not predict a 3-way interaction between actors’ use, partners’ use, and actors’ perceptions of their partner’s use. We predict the associations with sexual satisfaction are as follows:
When actors’ perceptions is that partners’ use is high
Actors' use
High Low
Partners' use High + -
Low + -
Where + indicates higher satisfaction and - indicates lower satisfaction
When actors’ perceptions is that partners’ use is low
Actors' use
High Low
Partners' use High - +
Low - +
where + indicates higher satisfaction and - indicates lower satisfaction
**Analytic plan**
Consistent with the previous analyses, we will use an actor-partner approach (e.g., Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006), and begin by running a model predicting sexual satisfaction using actors' solitary pornography use, their perception of their partner’s use, and the interaction. In the next step, we will test whether partners’ use or perceptions of partners’ use reduces or negates the association of partners’ use with sexual satisfaction by running a model predicting sexual satisfaction using actors’ and partners’ solitary pornography use, actors’ perceptions of their partner’s pornography use, the interaction between actor’s and partners’ use, and the interaction between actors’ use and actors’ perceptions of their partners’ use. Finally, if actors’ perceptions of their partners’ use predicts sexual satisfaction, and reduces or negates its association with partners’ use, we will test the 3-way interaction between the predictors. We will run a model predicting sexual satisfaction using actors’ and partners’ solitary pornography use, actors’ perceptions of their partner’s pornography use, all associated 2-way interactions, and the 3-way interaction between actor’s use, partners’ use, and actors’ perceptions of their partner’s use.
