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Monday, November 23, 2009

Why we surf for sex: Real women fess up

"When I'm in a chat room, talking dirty or flirting, I don't have to worry about my body hang-ups. I'm free to say things that would never come out of my mouth in real life." —J., 20

"Although my boyfriend and I haven't looked at Internet porn together, we like to talk about what we've checked out on our own. It gives us new ways of keeping our sex life interesting, including my discovering the joys of from-behind positions, which took me a while to open up to!" —H., 23

"When I was younger, I turned to the Internet to read up on this masturbation thing I'd been hearing about. Before then, I couldn't locate my clitoris. It was enlightening, and I'm thankful I had those online resources in the privacy of my bedroom." —B., 23

Related: How the Internet has affected women's love lives

"I used the Internet to learn how to give a ----- , before I'd ever been close to actually giving one. Friends of mine went online and printed out instructions, and we passed them around, highlighting sections. It became known as 'the packet!'" —R., 26

"A few months ago, I was using my boyfriend's laptop when I noticed a porn video he'd downloaded. At first I panicked, but then, when we were headed home in a cab a few nights later, I whispered that I wanted to watch porn and have sex. He was totally turned on by my forward proposal, in a supercharged way that reminded me of our early days together. It was a real confidence boost to have him see me in such a new, sexy light!" —N., 29

By Andrea Bartz

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  • M22's Avatar
    Posted by M22 Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:22pm PST

    If your man needs to watch other women, he's just not that into you.

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  • KittyKat's Avatar
    Posted by KittyKat Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:40pm PST

    I wish it were that easy to say M22 but its not. Over half of the men in this country look at porn even when they are in a good relationship with a decent women.

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  • urassismine2's Avatar
    Posted by urassismine2 Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:45pm PST

    I disagree with M22. Males are visual. When we have beautiful women in our eye view, passing in front of us in "look at me, mode", what do you expect us t do. Act like an ostrich an dig deep in a hole somewhere? The issue is the insecurity of your own incompetent feelings related to your own inability to compete with what you feel is less attention to your neediness. Just for a moment in time, the spotlight isn't on your infamy as a woman with a man in tow. We are partners, in a partnership. If a woman can't manage her own relevance, how can she expect a man to stay centered on her. Again, the blame game goes on, an men are the cause of her angst. How about the competitve angling of each woman who puts on that make-up, so well versus you, who didn't make sure that your make-up was working before you came out, into the arena to begin with. I mean, that is your job,...right?

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  • urassismine2's Avatar
    Posted by urassismine2 Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:48pm PST

    Kittykat,..Porn has nothing to do with it, except women need to fess up also. They look at porn more than they want to tell it! Yup!

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  • Sara P.'s Avatar
    Posted by Sara P. Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:49pm PST

    My man and I will look at it together..it makes us hot for each other that much more.

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  • Rose's Avatar
    Posted by Rose Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:52pm PST

    i dont know if my boyfriend watches it, but i wanna try watching it with him sometime and i dont know how to ask without him thinking am pervy.

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  • The Tedster's Avatar
    Posted by The Tedster Wed Nov 4, 2009 12:00am PST

    Rose, just tell him you're curious and would like to see some. Just be aware that most porn is male oriented and not the most romantic stuff ever.

    Also, in terms of mutual fantasies I'm not sure there are any because yours bore us and ours offend you (ladies) in general.

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  • killer bitch's Avatar
    Posted by killer bitch Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:15am PST

    I look at porn and so does my man. I got freaked when I saw his laptop had an ungodly amount of porn. but Then I thought the only reason he had that much porn was bc he was over seas. I would like to watch it with him but we are into TOTALLY different categories. I don not understand why women think watching porn is so grotesque.

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  • LynneB's Avatar
    Posted by LynneB Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:46am PST

    your assismine your name alone proves you to be a mysogynist if i were a csi i would profile you in sex crime cases

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  • mash2's Avatar
    Posted by mash2 Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:52am PST

    M22's comment is either a joke (not that funny) or s/he has NO idea whatsoever about how men are wired, in which case, it's kinda sad, cuz' s/he is likely gonna experience a lot of unnecessary unhappiness as a result of this ignorance. Look at it this way: in general, porn (or other women) is to men what shoes are to women.

    What woman would ever say: "If she's gotta look at more shoes, she's just not that into shoes she already has." The fact is, women love 'porn' every bit as do men -- they prefer a different medium: text, voice. Once the whole mood thing is established, watch out: she WILL enjoy feelin' NASTEH... but call it "Romance". :-D

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