Unlike other theoretical perspectives, UGT holds that audiences are responsible for choosing media to meet their desires and needs to achieve gratification.

The formula helped to decide the amount of gratification an individual would expect to gain from the medium over how much effort they had to make to achieve gratification.

There, he can have "a lot of fun" achieving sexual gratification using machines.

"A deficient libido brought on by a set of sotio-physical determinants manifesting in a psycho-sexual syndrome, whereby you can only achieve sensual gratification through the experience of pain."

His behavior isn't just to achieve immediate gratification.

How was it possible that some of my conspecifics could achieve sexual gratification just by inflicting pain on others?

The majority of people simply learn to accept their fetish and manage to achieve gratification in an appropriate manner.

Additionally, people with long-term ailments (including HIV) can engage in cybersex as a way to safely achieve sexual gratification without putting their partners at risk.

In a traditional psychoanalytic model, this could take several years of restraint, and even still, many people will make the choice to achieve instant gratification over delayed gratification.