Top 5 Benefits of Porn

We all love porn. Porn is great. Who could imagine a world without it? But have you ever wondered why we all love porn so much?  What about watching people fuck makes us feel so damn good? Sure, it helps us get off, but that alone doesn’t explain why we turn to it even when we have a willing partner, or why porn is infinitely more popular than sex toys. So why are we all so obsessed with porn? Well, it turns out that there are many benefits to watching porn you might not have ever even thought of! Here’s our list of the top 5 ways you benefit from watching porn. Some of them might surprise you!

 

1) Porn helps you sleep

Ok, technically, any form of masturbation can actually help you get some zzz’s, but since porn is the most popular form of masturbation aid, the 2 sort of go hand in… er… hand. Many people have been jerking themselves off to dreamland since puberty and, given the prevalence of this practice, one might expect that there would be at least a handful of scientific studies on whether or not it is effective. Unfortunately, there aren’t so many. Dr. Nicole Prause, the creator of Liberos, a sexual biotechnology company that studies the effects of orgasm on the brain, is one of the few researchers looking into this. She surveyed 300 people and found that 200 of them reported falling asleep faster after masturbating than when they did not masturbate before bedtime.  When it is used as part of a regular bedtime routine, it can help trigger feelings of sleepiness. Experts consider bedtime rituals part of good sleep hygiene. The habits established in these routines send your body strong cues to relax and get ready for sleep. This would be true of any routine, but a routine which includes an orgasm would be a particularly powerful sleep aid.  This is because orgasms result in the release of all kinds of stress-reducing hormones, such as serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, nitric oxide and prolactin. Such an enormous dump of relaxing chemicals is also associated with the release of melatonin, which is the primary hormone responsible for regulating our internal clocks. On a related note...

 

2) Porn helps relieve anxiety

Again, this is true of any activity that leads to orgasm, however, porn is an awfully convenient, readily available tool to that end. The hormones involved with orgasm helped temporarily shut down your fight or flight response.  It can even help lower your blood pressure! Sometimes, anxious feelings can be useful - like when they drive you to study for a big test that’s making you nervous. However, anxiety in excess can harmful, especially when you’re stressed out about things that are beyond your control.  For those situations, porn is not only a welcome distraction but will offer your brain a big feel-good boost to help move on.

 

3) Helps male fertility

It turns out the old adage “use it or lose it” applies to sperm.  Going more than a week without orgasm can damage the DNA in a man’s sperm. This becomes especially true as men get older.  Experts suggest that, if you are actively trying to conceive a child, men should ejaculate daily at least 1 week before their partner’s ovulation date.  That can be a tall order for a busy couple, and porn can certainly help share some of the… er...

 

4) Porn Increases libido

According to a University of California study, there is a positive correlation between watching porn and wanting to have sex.  It suggests that people who watch more porn, have higher sex drives. Of course, correlation does not prove causality, however, researchers speculate that exposure to visual sexual stimuli can help your libido get over a small funk.

 

5) Porn is instructional

I don’t know about you, but I learned a lot from watching porn.  It provides a safe way to explore kinks - and by safe, I mean both physically safe (as in, safe sex.  No one is going to get the Clap from watching porn) and emotionally safe (you can feel free to explore fantasies you maybe aren’t so sure you’re ready to bring into the real world). You can even discover fantasies your imagination would never come up with, without the aid of pornography.  Example: a few months back we reviewed a surprisingly fun site called Mormon Girlz which fetishized sister wives and their whacky sacred underpants. Who knew that was a thing? In addition to getting to learn about what really turns you on, you might get a pretty decent anatomy lesson. For many of us, our formative sexual experiences are spent in the dark or fumbling around under blankets.  We might feel shy or worry about making our partners uncomfortable, by just staring at their junk up close and personal. While everybody is a little bit different, porn can help you get the basics. For those who are a bit more advanced, you can always learn some awesome new oral techniques, new positions, how to talk dirty, or new masturbation techniques. There are even instructional BDSM videos that show you how to create safe words, tie specific knots, and give you tips on how to approach these kinks with a partner.

 

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