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Why do you look at porn?

Asked by jonsblond (43706points) October 26th, 2009

This question: http://www.fluther.com/disc/59242/is-this-really-grounds-from-a-lover-to-be-mad/#quip865513 inspired the question that I am asking.

What turns you on when you view porn? Is it the naked body of a beautiful person? The actual act of penetration? Two women, or men, kissing?

I ask this because I feel that some women are threatened when their significant other views porn. If they understood that some people like to view it for the actual “act” itself and not the airbrushed “beautiful” people that perform in these films, they may not feel as insecure as they do.

Your thoughts?

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nxknxk's avatar

The body, the physique. It’s the scenes of penetration and exaggerated O-faces that I typically skip through.

I don’t think women should feel threatened by pornography unless it’s creating a serious rift in the relationship. Certainly some men get addicted (apparently), but generally porn and masturbation aren’t things we take very seriously.

Nothing replaces real sex, after all.

wundayatta's avatar

I’ll say again here what I said on that other question: it’s a masturbation aid. I can imagine that I’m fucking some porn actress, and that it’s all just about fucking, and not anything else. And of course, that’s all it is. You can’t have any other kind of relationship with an image on a screen. You can only have your fantasies.

With porn, my goal is to get off as fast as possible. It’s about relieving myself. It has nothing to do with any real relationship. Relationships are about people. Porn is just about masturbation.

judochop's avatar

Two words:
deep
throat.

It’s hawt.

Facade's avatar

Same reason as @daloon

BhacSsylan's avatar

Well, I watch porn (or, as I prefer, ‘prawn’) for a variety of reasons, but one big one is it feels good to be turned on, so to speak. If I’m horny, and my partner’s not around (or for whatever reason not available), porn will keep me in a horny mood, which i know she’ll appreciate. And, as I said, being horny feels good to me. Also, if we go for extended periods of separation, it can help relieve the ‘blue balls’ syndrome, especially when we talk on the phone a lot with sexy results.

Specifically to what turns me on, it’s a matter of the act. I’m a bit voyeuristic, so that helps, and watching the act, specifically watching people enjoying it sexually, turns me on greatly (my partner enjoying sex is a huge turn on, and also means i can’t watch any pain-centered porn. And it just grosses me out anyway).

Edit: Oh, and it’s worth it to say that it tends to be very little about the form of the people, I tend not to care for the very thin look most have, and much more about the psychology. I care about seeing them enjoying it, nothing else matters much in comparison.

Haleth's avatar

It’s a lot of fun to watch porn with your SO. If you pick a good video, it can be a way to get ideas, and it’s a change from the typical movie night in. Other porn is so awesomely bad that watching it together turns into an impromptu MST 3000.

casheroo's avatar

Porn has never been an aid to masturbate for me, but I understand that plenty of people use it that way. For me, it’s entertaining. It’s amusing, it interests me…watching others have sex is just fascinating. It’s not usually sexual for me, even if I watch it with my husband..we don’t use it to get off, it’s just something to do.
I watch much more porn than my husband does, most likely because I have more time for it haha.

YARNLADY's avatar

I experience absolutely zero desire to look at other people performing a sexual act. I cannot imagine anything more boring.

jobe's avatar

i feel porn is degrading if it involves sex acts that I don’t like.. and mirrors are more fun to masturbate in front of.

airowDee's avatar

I like it because it is degrading. :0

AstroChuck's avatar

Because sometimes I’m alone and have five minutes to spare.

AstroChuck's avatar

That leaves me about three minutes to get a snack afterwards.

hungryhungryhortence's avatar

I look at porn occasionally to try and figure out what my partner finds so fascinating about it and to look for fun positions to suggest to partner we real life people could try out. Other than that I avoid porn since I get far too irritated if I get sexually aroused and I have no partner on hand to play with. Watching porn only makes me miss my partner more and become sulky if I can’t be with them.

shego's avatar

The only reason, I watch it is to try and get some position ideas, and well, ideas in general.

loser's avatar

Ahem! Strictly for research purposes, I assure you!!!

shego's avatar

@loser research? ;D

jonsblond's avatar

@loser I want a five page report on my desk yesterday.

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FutureMemory's avatar

I like to see women taking it doggy-style. Don’t ask me why. Excuse me for a few…

fundevogel's avatar

Watching other people have sex is awkward for me. Its like I walked in on something accidentally and there is just no good way to extricate yourself from that situation. “Oh hey, you’re having sex, that’s great, I’ll come back later.”

That may or not relate to being one of those kids that caught mommy and daddy doing the beast with two backs. I’m so scarred for life.

peedub's avatar

I don’t. I keep it G-rated.

prude's avatar

because I find it arousing.

Thammuz's avatar

For all of them. The problem is that i don’t choose my partner for those things. I don’t care about the character of a porn actress, i care about how she looks, what se does and how she moves, certainly not about wether or not she has a degree in astrophysics or something.

Women in porn are simply actressess playing a part, and as such they’re not “real people”, i couldn’t fall in love with a pornstar JUST by the movies i saw of her. I could if i met her, talked to her, found out she’s not a complete retard and whatnot. Without that she’s just a picture on a screen.

Bluefreedom's avatar

I look at porn because my fellow Jellies have assured me that I shouldn’t be ashamed to do so and they’ve also listed some good reasons for watching it.

Violet's avatar

I watch porn when I masturbate, and I usually only watch squirting porn

jonsblond's avatar

haha. This was one of my drinking while fluthering questions that I wish I could delete. ;)

wundayatta's avatar

@Violet You seem to have very particular tastes. Very specific. Did you just randomly arrive at these tastes, or do they have some other cause? And what about all the billion other things it is possible to do? Do you eschew them, or just do them very rarely?

I’ll look at all kinds of porn. I’ll do a lot of different things when making love. I like to mix things up, but mostly it depends on what my partner is into. I’m wondering—and I would never ask this except that you seem to be pretty much of a sex aficionado—how many orgasms you have on a typical day—and how many of them are with a partner and how many alone?

If this question is over-provocative, tell me to go to hell, but I really am curious about how you are really, not to mention how you got to this point.

Violet's avatar

@daloon – I go through phases of porn. I use to like anal, then DP, then orgies, bondage, and now it’s squirting. We have only watched porn together about 3–4 times, He doesn’t like the kind of porn I watch.
My partner is not nearly as sexual as I am. He’s never done bondage, but I’ve been able to get him into it lately.
I masturabte more than I actually have sex, but I don’t masturbate every day, maybe 5/7 days a week. Maybe less. I only have sex about 2–3 times a week. Sometimes more sometimes less.
You can ask me anything about sex, and my sex life. The only things that offend me, are anti-gay remarks, animal/child abuse, and people talking crap about good cops.abuse.

wundayatta's avatar

Good cops?????

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