Why Do We Watch Porn?

Girl Watching TV in Dim-Lit Room
Girl Watching TV in Dim-Lit Room

→ The Bachelorette or Bachelor

A benefit of being in relationship is you have someone with whom you can have sexual release. If you happen to be single, or have a partner whom for some reason can’t meet your sexual craving, the chances are you watch porn to fill that void.

Be careful not to let porn be a long-term substitute for a boyfriend or girlfriend, or prevent you from addressing the underlying issues affecting your relationship with your partner. Yes, including you who is having a hard time to find a boyfriend or girlfriend.

→ The Student

Maybe your knowledge about your own sexuality, the male and female sexuality, and even sex is from watching porn. I’d be the first to admit I saw my first vagina and boobs from porn. Embarrassing as this may sound: I was in my early 20s when I learnt the clitoris is not meant for peeing.

I recall the day my second ex-girlfriend had planned for us to have sex. Yes, she wanted it more than I did because I was a clueless virgin. I had to pay a friend to borrow me his porn video cassette. As funny as it may sound, I spent the entire day studying picture frame—slow-motioning every scene and taking notes. Till today my ex still don’t believe me she was my first.

I recently started a new relationship with a girl who prefers rough sex. Despite my vast experience, I still needed to browse a couple of rough porn videos to ensure my first sex with her meets her desires. I sometimes watch lesbian porn to learn how to give the "perfect" oral to a woman. I think a woman understands those pleasurable spots better than non-lesbian porn.

However, porn is not necessarily an accurate reflection of your boyfriend or girlfriend's sexual pleasures. As a student of sex, ask him or her what they like you to do.

→ The Variety Seeker

Porn can be a temporal escape from monotony. Porn presents an opportunity to be mentally stimulated by sexual stimuli other than those of a partner.

Be careful porn does not become a substitute for sex with your partner. Likewise, watching porn doesn’t necessarily mean she or he is cheating on you or falling out of love with you.

→ The Dreamer

Have you watched a movie while envisioning yourself being part of it? Perhaps, not. With porn, some people can. You probably envisioned being kissed, caressed, stroked, undressed, oralled, stretched, ramped, and/or filled by the actor. Perhaps, you envisioned yourself with a favourite porn star.

Perhaps you watch porn to satisfy a fantasy that can't be satisfied by your partner. Perhaps a fantasy you would never dare to subject your partner to it. The fantasy, though not limited to these, includes oral/anal sex, threesome, BSDM, lesbian/gay sex, role play sex, and rough sex.

Watch out during sex you don’t fetishised your partner with phrases like "I want your big black cock". Though flattering, I was uncomfortable when my ex used to say that. I had to tell her to stop using the "black" label because I don’t think she would use the "white" label if she was dating a white guy.

→ The Habitor

Watching porn is an automatic behaviour for some people built out of habit. To them, porn is a masturbatory toolkit without which it’s like being served with a plate of rice without a cutlery.

If the science about the effects of porn on sexual intimacy and delayed ejaculation is true, perhaps the habitor may need to re-evaluate their relationship with porn.

Based on the reasons for watching porn identified above, which category or categories describe you? Perhaps none of the categories describe you, but you want to comment about something related to any.

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Most Helpful Guy

  • I was a bachelor. I then became a student. Now I am trying to not become a janitor. Oddly enough I am not at the stage where I do not watch porn. I may never reach that stage. I no longer masturbate while watching porn. I can, but I can watch porn and not masturbate.

Most Helpful Girl

  • It makes it easier to get off.

    • I can provide you that with ny stuff

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What Girls & Guys Said

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  • Great Take. ♥️😊

  • I like the acting 😊

    • The terible cliche cringy acting lol

  • Because it feel good

  • I don’t watch it much now but when I first became sexually active, I studied porn to learn what I was supposed to do and what guys liked. I realize now some things in porn are silly or unrealistic but truthfully, there are things I picked up from porn that I still do today because guys love it.

  • Because its easier than searching for a shag at last minute