Why Watching Porn With Your Partner Will Spice Up Your Relationship
Porn pioneer Erika Lust spills the pleasure-filled tea.
Erika Lust shares her three NSFW tips for couples seeking to elevate their sex lives.
Adult entertainment can evoke a world of pleasure from audio porn to juicy compilations — especially when rejecting the male gaze. Yet when it comes to pleasure with our partner(s), porn can easily evoke shame due to social standards. Ethical porn pioneer and director Erika Lust knows pleasure better than most — after all, she did start the trend of giving employees 30 minute masturbation breaks.
In the case of sexual pleasure for couples, porn is a great tool for spicing up your sex lives together. Curious as to how? Keep reading for Lust’s three benefits of watching porn with your partner.
Setting the mood with quality time >
Between the pressures of adulting and other extenuating circumstances — its hard to get one person in the mood, let alone doing so as a couple or throuple. Lust says “Watching porn together can help set the right mood and steam things up for a session of hot sex! It’s also quality time that you share together. By taking the time to set the mood, be present and let the heat slowly rise you’re nourishing one another, your sex life and your relationship.”
It makes open communication easier >
“Porn opens up communication,” Lust told Hypebae. “When engaging with explicit films together, you might find you have different likings when it comes to the porn you watch… Embrace that and see it as an opportunity to talk about sexual preferences and fantasies.”
(S)exploration >
Sexual exploration has been trending for Gen Z, Millenials and even Gen X. Why? Living in a society where sex is taboo can fuel curiosity. But also, “porn is a great starting point for trying new things,” Lust shared. “Watching other people have sex in ways that you haven’t tried before can spark curiosity to implement new ways of playing together. It can also make you aware and more confident about certain techniques or practices you didn’t know much about and might want to implement in your sex life. Have a conversation about what you might want to explore and celebrate the joy, pleasure, and probable awkwardness that comes with trying something different”
To explore the world of ethical porn, visit Erika Lust Films to explore with your lover(s).
In other news, porn hit the runway at Milan Fashion Week.
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