[The Pro Circuit] In Praise of Wanker Porn
Happy National Masturbation Month! Now, before you wander off to celebrate with your favorite toy and a bottle of lube, I encourage you to watch some women wanking.
I can only really speak for myself, but watching erotica of gorgeous women jerking off has been not only a great source of pleasure for me, but a profound experience that’s just not provided by other porn. It’s one of my most sublime pleasures, and a necessary relief from the anal fucking, bondage and spanking I usually watch.
There’s something so profoundly hot about a simple scene of masturbation that whenever I return to this time-honored wank material, I feel a sudden wave of evangelism — in this case corresponding, thankfully, with the aforementioned holiday.
It’s a simple and obvious fact that most porn is sold, rented, loaned, and downloaded for the purpose of facilitating masturbation. It can serve other purposes — as inspiration and backdrop for partnered sex, as a sex education enterprise, etc, but mostly, porn’s sold to people who are going to jerk off to it.
Why, then, should porn mostly be about people fucking other people? Because that’s what porn consumers want to see while they masturbate? Bah! Porn consumers get at least partially acclimated to watching what is available, and were there more porn celebrating masturbation, people would feel a hell of a lot better about masturbating.
While I unquestionably love porn, and I believe it offers great benefit to society, there’s an underlying danger of watching too much porn: it seems like everyone is getting laid except you. On the other hand, masturbating while watching a scene of someone masturbating strengthens the idea that what you’re doing is normal. I believe it also provides the underlying suggestion that since other people are out there doing it, sharing self-love provides a kind of intimacy. It helps establish in one’s mind that experiencing pleasure alone is a good thing.
What’s more, assuming the wankers you’re watching are the same general type you’d like to fuck — as, presumably, they tend to be — real masturbation scenes can teach you plenty about how those people actually please themselves.
One of the most valuable pieces of sex ed I heard when I was still in high school was that watching partners masturbate teaches you how they like to please themselves. Perhaps more importantly, it was damn hot. Pretty soon, I learned that watching my girlfriend touch herself before things got going between us was enough to guarantee explosive sex. I don’t know if that’s where I developed my fixation on porn of women masturbating, but if so, I’ll have to remember to send that first girlfriend a thank-you card for Masturbation Month.
Unfortunately, there’s nearly enough hot porn of hot women jerking off. Two wonderful titles are Barcelona Sex Project and Intimate Moments: Getting Off. Intimate Moments: Shared features girls masturbating with minor “assists” but mostly getting themselves off. You’ll also see smokin’ hot masturbation scenes in Shine Louise Houston’s Superfreak and The Crash Pad — these scenes are worth putting on repeat.
Occasionally, mainstream porn movies have scenes of women masturbating, but they often dissolve into a fantasy scene that wouldn’t otherwise fit in to the “plot.” As if a hot girl masturbating isn’t hot enough in and of itself? Please.
Whether you’re going to take my advice and enjoy one of the above masturbation videos, be sure to celebrate National Masturbation Month in the usual way — with a wank, or hopefully many of them.
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on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 at 1:27 pm John Evans wrote:
…Huh. That’s actually pretty insightful. I never thought about it like that before.