In this webinar, we are joined by Dr. Beáta Bőthe and Émilie Gaudet from University of Montréal to discuss Problematic Pornography Use (PPU) among post-secondary students and its impact on their relationships and mental health. They will talk about the prevalence and motivations for porn use, when porn use becomes problematic, risks, assessment tools and interventions for PPU and the resulting consequence on romantic relationships. French closed captioning will be available.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Beáta Bőthe (she/her) is an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Montréal (Canada), a researcher at the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS), and the director of the Sexuality, Technology, and Addictions Research Laboratory (STAR Lab). She focuses on addictions, compulsive sexual behaviors, problematic and non-problematic pornography use, and online behaviors. She has published more than 150 international research articles in leading scientific journals and 16 book chapters. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions and a member of the editorial boards of other top-tier journals (e.g., Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior). Among others, she was the recipient of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health’s (SASH) Research Award (2021), the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions’ (ISSBA) Early Career Research Award (2023), and the Association for Psychological Science’s Rising Star Award (2025).
Émilie Gaudet, BA (she/her), is a Ph.D. student in psychology at Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Dr. Beáta Bőthe. Her doctoral research focuses on impulsivity, compulsivity, compulsive sexual behaviors, and pornography use. She is the first author of a systematic review on compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use, published in Current Addiction Reports, a leading scientific journal in the field of addictions. She also co-authored two additional peer-reviewed articles on related topics over the past year, including a second-author publication in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. She presented her research at several international conferences, such as the International Conference on Behavioral Addictions (ICBA) and the Annual Conference of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). Her academic work has been supported by a Ph.D. scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).
