Well, watching porn is in itself a very fun activity. But what is even more interesting is that it is actually good for your health – yes- you have read it correctly, watching porn is good for your health, and we aren’t even joking.
Whether it is long-form porn production or pieces of hot content on adult Snapchat accounts of your favorite pornstars, there is something to be said about how quality porn consumption can benefit your overall health. And in case you don’t believe us, here are some of the major benefits that might inspire you to watch porn a bit more…
Despite the overwhelming number of studies claiming that porn is bad for your brain and your relationships, there are just as many studies saying that porn does not cause irrevocable harm to the brain or your sex life—in fact, it might even be kinda good for you.
A few years ago two Danish researchers Gert Hald and Neil Malamuth concluded from a survey of 688 Danish adults that porn did not yield any negative mental or health effects. In fact, the researchers found a positive correlation between the subjects’ porn viewing and increased sexual satisfaction, as well as self-reported benefits in other areas of their lives. So that is quite a great bonus we would say.
In addition, porn can be a way to discover your sexuality in a way that has fewer emotional or health consequences on you or other people. You can explore different niches like shemale or BBW and figure out where your interest lies before venturing into the world to find your ideal mate.
And, despite popular beliefs, masturbating is good for your relationship. One of the best ways to take personal responsibility for your sexual satisfaction is to regularly engage in self-stimulation so that your body stays well-loved independently of your partner’s actions.
This also has an additional per, it means that you’ll know your individual likes and dislikes more, and that means that you’ll be less dependent on your partner’s sexual affection, and you’ll likely have greater control over when/if/how frequently you reach climax because you’ll already be intimately connected to your sexual arousal arch.
Need more reasons? According to Planned Parenthood, masturbation releases sexual tension, reduces stress, helps you sleep better, improves your self-esteem and body image, helps treat sexual problems, relieves menstrual cramps and muscle tension, and strengthens muscle tone in your pelvic and anal areas, thus reducing women’s chances for UTIs, incontinence, and other fun things like “uterine prolapse.” In men, masturbation helps reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
Well, if you are watching the very hot ladies like Lana Rhoades and Riley Reid, who can get angry. But on a more serious note, anger causes us to do things we normally wouldn’t do, like yell at a server because your favorite restaurant isn’t selling the duck confit you’ve been craving all week. If porn reduces stress, it should also have a correlation to reducing aggressive tendencies.
Contrary to the belief that porn causes people to be sexist or commit violent crimes, watching a moderate amount of porn may decrease the likelihood of someone committing a sex crime. It’s a controversial idea, one that’s been researched a lot, and a popular study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that watching pornography offers a safe place to express sexual, deviant desires.
A study by the University of California found a positive correlation between the time spent watching porn and the desire to have sex. ‘This pattern suggests that those who view more visual sexual stimuli (VSS) are likely to have a higher sexual drive,’ researchers wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. That is great news, both for you and your partner.
Scientists found that men who watched more than two hours of porn had a higher desire for sex with a partner than just masturbation, or “solo-sex.” And let’s be honest that is exactly what we want to have a healthy libido and a lot of fun with our partner. What can be better than that?
How is this possible you might ask? Well, the answer is simple, if you get inspired by the activities on screen and their pleasurable benefits, you might want to replicate some of them. And as we know sex is great for your health in general.
Sex uses about five calories per minute, four more calories than watching TV. It gives you a one-two punch: It bumps up your heart rate and uses various muscles. So, get busy! You may even want to clear your schedule to make time for it on a regular basis, a bit of porn to inspire you and you are golden.
And the best part is, you’ll get to rest properly afterward - “After orgasm, the hormone prolactin is released, which is responsible for the feelings of relaxation and sleepiness" after sex, says Sheenie Ambardar, MD, a psychiatrist in West Hollywood, Calif.
So there you have it, porn is great for your health and you need more of it to maintain a good life/work balance. So, whether it is a few moments on your favorite pornstar Snapchat account or watching a great video with your partner you should definitely not avoid it on a daily basis.
Porn gets a lot of bad rep, but in reality, it is a great means to a very happy and healthy relationship and a far calmer and balanced mindset, that, if we are being honest we all could use in this day and age.
We are going to end this article with a quote - “It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you…To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm—that most unguarded and purely neural of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.”
– David Foster Wallace, “Big Red Son”