Is Asmr Porn

Is Asmr Porn

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| February 11, 2021 9:59 am

Like most things, ASMR can be about sex if you want it to.

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It turns out ladies with long fingernails unboxing and playing with new iPhones is my sexual preference — something I learned after stumbling across this video and having my first ASMP experience. It’s not porn, per se, but videos like this one — particularly those involving tapping and swishing sounds — gives me a sense of low-grade euphoria. I get chills from the top of my head, down my spine and right through my genitals.
As a sex researcher, this discovery led me to an obvious question: Does ASMR make people horny? Like, I know it makes me horny, but is this an experience other people are also enjoying in this way? The recent rise of actual ASMR porn — a once niche genre that is beginning to enter the mainstream porn world with projects like Erika Lust’s new production, ASMR: The Sound of Sex — suggests the answer is yes.
But, again, as a sex researcher, I wasn’t content with that knowledge alone. If ASMR does, in fact, make people horny, that leads us to yet another question: why? So I took a deep dive into ASMR and its connection to our sexual response cycle, because yes, there is one.
First of all, you might be wondering the hell ASMR even is. This is not unusual, as even the non-erotic stuff has only recently made it into the mainstream. However, you’ve likely had plenty of experiences with ASMR without even realizing it. ASMR stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response.” This may sound fancy, but it’s essentially a sensation of spine tingling and euphoria that people experience when exposed to certain sounds, visuals or physical touch.
In most cases, ASMR is linked to an audio-visual trigger, like my video of choice where hot women open and tap their long, luxurious nails on freshly minted iPhones.
Basically, you hear certain soft sounds, (opening packages, whispering, eating certain foods slowly) feel certain types of touch, (a feather run over your skin, light massage) or see certain things (such as shibari rope tying or someone completing a puzzle) and this makes the brain happy, leading to that spine-tingling bliss down your whole body.
That said, ASMR isn’t for everyone; it can be divisive. People are generally super into it or super not into it. “Some people do not even want to interact with ASMR, as they find it off-putting,” says Mia Sabat , a sex therapist at Emjoy, a sexual wellness audio app for women. “Those who do find ASMR appealing, however, often note that they experience a state of mental relaxation, and tingling in the scalp and neck which can sometimes spread throughout their body.”
A 2018 study found ASMR “caused the participants’ heart rate to decrease and skin conductance levels to increase, an indicator of the relaxing effect of this brain-tingling sensation. Some researchers have also likened it to a head orgasm,” says Sandra Larson , RN, a nurse, relationship expert and the co-founder of My Sex Toy Guide , a hub for sexual health and wellness content.
It doesn’t take much digging to find hundreds of ASMR YouTube videos. It’s a massive community that even has its own celebrities, like ASMR star Heather Feather , who has over 530,000 followers. Interest in ASMR has exploded in recent years — just look at this chart .
While there isn’t a particularly large body of existing research on the connection between ASMR and sex, experts agree that for those who enjoy it and find it relaxing, it certainly has the potential to create an environment that is conducive for arousal. “What’s more, the relaxation and stimulation can lead to more intimacy and pleasure during sex,” Larson says.
According to The Origin Theory of ASMR , the brain and body release the same feel-good chemicals during ASMR stimulation as those released during sexual arousal: serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine. Hence, all the euphoria ASMR enthusiasts often report.
“ASMR can function similarly to a mindfulness exercise, by bringing the listener’s attention to the present through sound,” says Sarah Melancon , Ph.D, a sociologist, clinical sexologist and resident expert at The Sex Toy Co l lective . It “heightens sensitivity to sounds that we typically ignore [or] tune out on a daily basis. For those who enjoy ASMR, this sensory sensitivity may spread to other senses, which may make touch or sensations inside the body more vivid, contributing to a feeling of sexual arousal.”
The way ASMR affects people can vary wildly. Some may find it off-putting, some may feel neutral, others may find it soothing, and some may feel, well, horny. Human sexuality is interesting like that; people are into different things for different reasons. “Why do some people eroticize certain senses while others don’t?” asks Carol Queen, PhD, the staff sexologist at Good Vibrations . “I don’t think we have a solid answer to that question, but it does underlie the fact that our sexualities are, in the fine points, unique to us.”
The first step in figuring out if ASMR is a turn-on for you, personally, is to simply give it a try. Check out some videos on YouTube. Again, there are about a billion to choose from.
You’ll likely know pretty quickly whether or not this is for you. If you get an “ick” reaction and can’t stand it, you’re probably not an ASMR person — and that’s perfectly fine. You just learned something new about yourself, congrats.
But for those who do find ASMR strikes their fancy and want to explore its sexual potential, here are a few tips for incorporating ASMR into you sex life.
These are ASMR videos that are designed for sex, specifically. “Many people that experience arousal with ASMR often say that videos where people are whispering are their favorite,” Sabat says. “This could be because we often whisper when we have something very intimate to say. For many, whispering is probably the first sexual ASMR connection that their brains make.”
Have you ever had someone tickle or rub your arms, scratch your head, or massage you in a way that felt so good it was almost orgasmic? This is an ASMR response. In the bedroom, try using a feather tickler and run it over your partner’s body. Get some lovely smelling organic massage oils and engage in loving, erotic massage .
Re-create your favorite ASMR videos with your own voice. Speak softly. Try whispering in your partner’s ear (maybe while you’re massaging them). Moan gently. There’s no end to what you can try.
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Although people often casually refer to ASMR content as " whisper porn ," and call the tingling, relaxing sensations of ASMR itself a " headgasm ," most mainstream ASMR creators, consumers, and researchers frequently and stringently insist it’s not a sex thing. No way. Not in the least.
The soft sounds, repetitive motions, personal attention, and other hallmarks of ASMR content aren’t about getting people hot and bothered, Craig Richard , a biopharmaceutical sciences professor at Shenandoah University and one of the leading authorities on the science of ASMR, tells Mashable. They’re about making people feel safe and special. And the sensation itself is not expressly erotic.
Yet despite these ubiquitous explanations and protestations, in recent years the adult industry has gone all in on "ASMR porn," which generally puts tight focus on sounds of licking, sucking, stroking, and the like, often paired with explicit yet slow and sensual visuals. In 2019, a trade magazine reported on an apparent flood of explicit ASMR content flowing out of both indie outfits and big studios — like Brazzers , which hosted a live erotic ASMR show featuring prominent performers like Abella Danger and Lisa Ann in Brooklyn that year. In 2020, an edition of GQ profiled the adult performer and director Nica Noella and her run of erotic ASMR content, and detailed the spike in demand for this sort of porn in the process. In 2021, the sex writer Gigi Engle, in an article about a new ASMR porn project created by the prominent indie producer Erika Lust , declared that that the "once niche genre [was] beginning to enter the mainstream porn world."
It's easy to write off the adult industry’s apparent obsession with ASMR as the latest example of its longstanding habit of pornifying everything that takes off in the SFW zeitgeist in hopes of piggybacking its way to a quick buck. "For a while, it seemed like every new porn had fidget spinners in it," says performer Penny Barber.
Thomas Hostler , a psychologist at the University of Manchester who studies ASMR, points out that this boom seemingly did kick off around the same time ASMR transitioned from a subcultural oddity to a mainstream phenomenon , inspiring ASMR-y pop and rap songs , dances , games , and even commercials . A Brazzers representative acknowledged that the rise of adult ASMR "coincides with the moment… people outside the ASMR community heard of it and wanted to be involved."
But Pornhub data released last year demonstrates that demand for ASMR porn is more consistent and enduring than the surge and crash associated with most industry cash-grab fads. (Searches spiked massively starting in 2016 and leveled out around 2019, but have either held steady or grown modestly since then.) In truth, porn producers’ affinity for ASMR, and the success of some of their ASMR content, may reflect the sexual potential within what many people tend to think of as entirely nonsexual stimuli and experiences. And mainstream backlash against that likely speaks to widespread discomfort with anything that blurs the boundaries between the supposedly distinct sexual and nonsexual realms of human experience.
A handful of very online porn performers and producers stumbled upon ASMR content around 2010, just after the first YouTube channels dedicated to the genre launched, and as enthusiasts were still popularizing the recently-coined term ASMR itself. Almost immediately — and well before the genre escaped the niche edges of the web — they started to experiment with ASMR themselves. (Noella says she discovered ASMR in 2010, while searching for videos on YouTube that featured "voices that would give me tingles." She made her first erotic ASMR film in 2011.)
Some early adopters made SFW ASMR content and shared it through channels on mainstream, porn-free platforms like YouTube — often while still using their adult stage names. Although this might seem like an odd pivot, it was actually part of a wider trend: As the rise of free tube sites in the late aughts threw the adult industry into economic upheaval, many porn insiders spent the early 2010s in search of ways to diversify their audiences and income. "You can reach a much wider audience when creating SFW content," notes Bea York , an adult performer who makes explicit ASMR porn but also runs a small, conventional ASMR YouTube channel.
There was clear demand for ASMR content of all sorts, with plenty of room for experimentation; creators have produced true crime ASMR, sports analysis ASMR, and even Shrek parody ASMR, to name just a few inventive offerings. Some of the most successful early ASMRists were also conventionally attractive young people making content with clear sexual undertones. (Think: slowly licking and nibbling on microphones to make wet mouth sounds.) In these early days of the genre, it seemed as if this emerging subculture might welcome rather than shun people with roots in the porn world. And a few porn-world creators have been relatively successful in the SFW ASMR sphere. Cherry Crush, a well-known indie adult performer, notably created a SFW (but still sexified) ASMR YouTube channel in 2012, apparently around the same time she was launching her porn career. The SFW channel has since amassed nearly 1 million subscribers, which puts her on par with some of the best-known mainstream SFW ASMRists .
While some creators use their SFW world success to drive new viewers toward their adult industry content, others partition off their two fan bases and income streams.
Other porn world figures have tried to make adult versions of ASMR content, or to bring ASMR techniques into their adult content, just because that’s what industry insiders do, as Ginger Roy of Blush Erotica, an adult studio that puts a strong focus on the auditory elements of its content, explains. They play around with "any new technology or idea" in an effort to develop something unique that might strike a chord with viewers, and thus carve them a valuable niche.
But for many of the folks making adult ASMR content, there's a deeper motive at play than general experimentation: These porn insiders took an interest in ASMR early on because they recognized something within even entirely nonsexual videos that resonated with their work .
Anna Lee , the CEO and head of content at 2049, an adult VR studio , says she quickly connected the whispered tones of ASMR to the voices that many phone sex workers use to elicit strong responses from clients. Kelli Provocateur, a longtime dominatrix and adult content creator, saw parallels between ASMR content and BDSM that involves luring people to sleep with soothing tones and soft, sensual actions. No matter what researchers say, Provocateur adds, "anything that’s nice and calming is still a form of pleasure. And anything that’s pleasurable has some sort of sexuality in it."
"Many of the triggers for ASMR and triggers for sensual foreplay do overlap, including whispering, touching lightly, and providing loving attention," acknowledges Richard, the ASMR scientist.
Most modern porn is "focused on the impact of images," says performer and producer Axel Abysse , and often doesn’t pay much attention to sound design. But "arousal is the sum of all the senses working together." Mainstream modern porn often lacks the types of audio stimuli that ASMR content excels at highlighting, through high-quality mics and recording techniques that laser focus in on key sounds.
"What fascinated me when I first encountered ASMR was its ability to create a physical sensation," adds Lee. "That was a sensory experience we were missing." She holds that, with good ASMR, "you can actually feel a tingle on your face" as an actor comes in for a POV kiss.
Noella believes that ASMR techniques like close whispering and personal attention-giving are also uniquely efficient in developing a sense of genuine care and connection between performers and viewers — a type of connection absent in mo
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