10 Good Reasons Why Women Should Watch Porn

Porn is no longer a hush-hush subject for women. Here’s why watching the right smutty videos can be beneficial for women in a variety of ways.

Gone are the days when porn was taboo, and masturbation was an unspoken thing, especially for women. While porn can sometimes be seen as intended for men, women are watching more porn now than they ever have. If you’d notice, there are now some increasingly popular sites that cater more to women’s tastes.

So for those women who are afraid of watching unrealistic, multi-orgasmic women with huge fake breasts being pounded by overly muscular men, you now have more sensual and romantic options to choose from such as Passion HD and X-Art. 

Porn can be an incredible tool for improving your sexual satisfaction, both by yourself and with a potential partner. It can help you delve deeper into your own sexuality, learn more about the opposite sex, and discover new things that you never even knew you liked in bed.

Why you should try watching porn

If you are not yet one of the sexually savvy, independent females who already watch porn, here are 10 reasons why you might want to start:

#1 To know your body. 

One of the biggest reasons to watch porn is to get to know your own body better on so many different levels. You will get a better understanding of what your body is fully capable of and what you like when it comes to sex.

Some women never get to understand what their own body is able to experience sexually, simply because they haven’t seen it firsthand. This is where porn can be a helpful means of getting to know your body on a deeper level, and have more appreciation for what it can do.

Simply having sex doesn’t give you an outside perspective on the act, and sometimes, it lacks the visual stimulation to get you aroused. Porn can help you to discover hidden sensations and spots that you don’t even realize are there.

#2 To discover more about yourself. 

In addition to learning more about your body, you will also be able to experiment with pleasuring different spots and establishing new techniques for having a mind-blowing orgasm. You will also discover new aspects of your sexuality, new positions, and get a better idea of what turns you on the most.

You might even be surprised to find some new fetishes that you never even knew you liked, until you see it played out in front of you. There is a whole world of sexuality to explore that could help you get more in tune with yourself as a result.

#3 To pick up some new tricks. 

Porn is one of the best ways to learn new tricks to try with a partner that will enhance the pleasure for the both of you. Not only will these tricks benefit your partner, but you can also learn new ways of pleasuring yourself with or without toys to achieve different levels of arousal.

If your sex life is suffering from monotony, porn can help spice things up under the sheets. Even watching porn with your partner is a way to get the fire started and make for a more intense lovemaking session. Just always keep in mind that the people in porn are actors, and that they may slightly exaggerate how much pleasure can be gleaned from certain acts.

#4 To get turned on. 

Porn can help get you turned on and increase lubrication to prepare you for sex. It can be a great prelude to sex, helping to open up your mind to fantasy, and build up your arousal to enjoy sex even more. This can help when your partner wants to have sex, but you just don’t feel in the mood, as porn can be the perfect way to ignite that flame. 

#5 To relieve stress. 

Self-pleasuring while watching porn can be a great stress reliever after a tough day. It also helps if you haven’t had any action lately and need to get rid of some of that pent up sexual frustration. Having an orgasm naturally relaxes your body and provides much-needed release.

Porn is also helpful when you are having trouble getting aroused on your own, and you need a visual aid prior to stimulation.

#6 To keep your engine running. 

Even when you don’t have a sex partner, it helps to keep the blood flowing, so you don’t go into a state of sexual regression. Sometimes, going too long without sex can cause you to become so sexually repressed that you ignore your basic sexual needs. You might even begin to express your frustration in different unhealthy ways.

Watching porn can help to keep you aroused, excitable, and serves as proof that your female parts are still working as they should. Your vagina is a muscle after all, so consider it a form of exercising your sexual muscles.

#7 To know how to take care of yourself without a partner. 

It has to be one of the most liberating discoveries when you first come to the realization that you can get yourself off without a partner. It’s that independent woman mentality that keeps you on top of your game, and serves as a reminder that you don’t need a partner *even if you want one*, because you can still orgasm without one.

#8 To feel sexier. 

There’s just something about porn that makes a woman feel sexier, her secret romps under the covers make her feel like a more covetable sex goddess when she is actually having sex. Watching porn can boost your confidence and can show a potential partner that you have mastered your body. You will come across as a woman who knows exactly what she wants, and knows how to get it.

#9 To learn more about the opposite sex. 

Porn is like an instructional video on how to pleasure the opposite sex or the same sex, if applicable. It can open up your eyes to new ways to please your partner and keep them satisfied within your sexual relationship.

You can learn about your partner’s body in a way that will prepare you to take what you’ve learned and apply it in the bedroom. Some people who watch porn secretly wish that their partner would do the same, in order to learn new ways to enhance their sexual experiences. 

#10 To gain insight about sex in general. 

Porn is like a world of

possibilities waiting to be explored. Learning about your own body, your partner’s body, and other aspects of the sexual experience can be liberating and spark your interest in new things.

Some women never get a chance to experience all of the different pleasures that sex has to offer, and therefore, never realize what their own body is capable of. When learning about other techniques, types of sex, taboo subjects, and so forth, you are also learning about how other people in the world have sex.

The internet is filled with tons of porn that caters to every preference. Whether you want to go with soft core or hard core, romantic or primal, masturbation or a full-on orgy, there’s sure to be a pornographic video out there that will fulfill your needs!

10 Things You Can Learn From Porn... For Your Own Pleasure

1. First of all, you can learn what you like in a safe, non-judgmental environment. And if you're apprehensive about asking your partner for some niche thing you've been considering (e.g. bondage, being called Ralph, et cetera), you can watch it first from the comfort of your own bed, solo. In your pajamas. With an Origins face mask on. :D

2. But your porn-watching life doesn't have to overlap with your actual sex life. You might discover, to your surprise, that you are into watching a certain sex act (like a threesome) but not into doing it yourself. You don't have to! Maybe someday you will want to? But for now you have opened another door into your own sexuality by finding a new thing that gets you off — even if you're just watching it.

3. See what "normal" sex looks like and feel less awkward. Many women's only exposure to porn are those cheesy $29.99 Jenna Jameson videos that have nothing to do with IRL P-in-va-G: No awkwardness, no weird noises, no uncomfortable condom fumbling, no screaming the name of your 7th grade physics teacher by accident, et cetera. But there is a whole range of porn now: Feminist and/or woman-friendly porn, amateur porn, fetish porn (NSFW!), you name it. Feminist porn goes out of its way to feature real female orgasms, not the fake moaning and screaming you might associate with mainstream porn.

4. Realize that your body is normal by watching other real non-porn star human women banging. Some of us — uhh, me — used to be Not Okay With Our Vaginas. (I like to see what's going on at all times, but looking at a vagina, whether it's your own or a Pal's, is like looking at a banana from the end. An optical illusion. Because the part of the banana that you're seeing is an angle that ignores the whole actual length of the banana. You know what I'm saying?) 

Once you watch a few clips of Muggle people banging, you realize that all human beings/vaginas are their own unique snowflakes. And also that your vagina is actually pretty cool, in a Happy Meal Transformer toy kind of way.

5. Be louder during sex. And not for him. Hearing yourself lose your shit like that is a turn-on. (Kind of weird, but true.)

6. Step outside your missionary-position comfort zone. Sure, you don't have to be flipped over every two seconds like a pancake on a griddle. But the variety of angles of penetration you often find in a medium-length porn clip can blow your mind if you are used to your regular blowjob-then-girl-on-top-then-missionary (then coffee ice cream in bed and The Daily Show) routine.

7. Realize and be able to articulate the difference between hard and fast, et al. You know that thing where you tell a guy that you like something, and he immediately starts doing it harder and faster, and you're like, "I literally just said I liked it exactly the way you were doing it?" It is easier to notice this when you are watching it — and then when it happens to you, you'll be aware enough to point it out to your partner.

Guys can be sort of extreme in bed sometimes, because it will generally end the same way for them (like this: :D). Whereas we are more like :), :/, :}, :|, <_<, >_>, *_~, #_#, and then hopefully :D.

8. There's really no good girl/bad girl dichotomy unless you want one. Mainstream, produced porn has passed on the obsession of "good girl being bad" or "good girl being spanked" or "good girl being Pokemon" or whatever — which implies that women are their most desirable when they're non-sexual beings who are suddenly hyper-sexual (but non-threateningly) (for one guy) (within reason) in bed. The more you watch normal women banging, making normal jokes, having normal, non-actress sex, the more you — and your partner — understand that women are just as sexual as men are.

9. You'll find new ways (and toys to use) to masturbate. Why yes, some everyday, normal girls do go home and use an enormous flashing cupcake-shaped vibrator, or what have you. It's like the less-dull version of reading sex toy product reviews.

10. And being single doesn't have to doom you to a boring sex life. It may sound obvious, but you don't need a guy (or many guys) to have an exciting sexual life. Not only is it safe, but watching porn adds variety. There are tons of tools for daily orgasms at your disposal.

Isn't it time we stop hating ourselves over wanting to be sexual?