VR Porn May Change the Way Your Brain Receives Pornography

VR Porn May Change the Way Your Brain Receives Pornography

VR porn may be the event that changes the porn industry and the way we hope to consume it. 

In the age of the internet, porn is definitely King. It can be found pretty much anywhere, accessed by just about anyone, and will depict nearly anything. Which, like most things’ humans consume on a far too regular basis, might not be exactly healthy. Internet porn has become the fast food drive through of our sexual desires. Much like the crusty windows that produce nutrition deficit food sate our hunger, the short clips of emotionally constipated penetrative shots sate our libidos. 

“Mobile users make up a pretty big pool of our clients.” Say the site PornDoe, an online provider of free pornography, slinging just about any flavor you can imagine. “VR porn could change all of this. Standardly, users won’t spend much more than 10 minutes on a clip, where most will scrub out any parts, they’re uninterested in. Few people have the time, or the desire, necessary to devote to hours’ worth of porn.” The carnal curators say that this is how they can offer such a massive array of pornographic genres. “People want to be able to find exactly what they’re looking for without any kind of hassle. That is, until you start looking at VR numbers.”

Virtual Reality, or VR, porn is slowly shifting the online pornography paradigm, with longer, more immersive clips- focusing more on things like foreplay and stimulating dialogue, than bland and repetitive genital penetration. “There’s something borderline magical about VR porn,” they say. “It’s an experience. Something that once you’ve seen it, you’ll want to see more.”

Shifting Requirements 

The utter ubiquity of online porn has left many feeling jaded, or even more simply- bored, with the videos that are available. We’ve all seen them. The standard set up, standard lines, standard sex. Overly rhythmic and the actors often seen just as detached as their audiences are set to be. 

Some experts suggest that this is largely due to most audiences becoming desensitized to pornographic content. PornDoe is a fantastic example of this, as the site offers up any number of genres of free content. One could realistically spend days pouring over their entire database, all free, all readily available at a moment's notice. Generations that have grown up with unfettered access to online pornography seem to have become less interested in what they have at their fingertips, and more interested in pushing boundaries, resulting in more searches for fringe sexuality depictions and deepening rabbit holes of fetish and kink genres. 

However, VR pornography may bring something entirely new to the online porn sphere- instead of offering varying levels of carnal intensity, the genre hope to offer new depths of empathy. Achieving this by creating VR empathy. Engaging viewers emotionally with actors, engendering more positive feelings toward the imagery, which in turn allows production companies to leverage more sex positive themes. Focusing not on penetrative sex, but instead on the positive reactions- facial expressions vocal confirmation, and movements- that express pleasure. 

How VR Porn Affects the Brain 

A landmark paper, released in August of 2019, is one of the first to directly compare VR porn experiences against those of its 2D counterparts. The study showed that men reported higher arousal rates form VR porn, where women showed no difference between the consumption models. However, both sexes reported higher arousal rates from first-person perspective pornography more so than more voyeuristic angles. And both reported that there was a greater sense of “presence” experienced with VR porn- and that sense positively correlated with arousal. 

And presence is exactly what the VR porn industry is after capturing. The sense that you are actually in an environment can convince your brain to create a heightened experience response. As one user put it “you feel things that are actually there- because of what you’re hearing and seeing, your brain tells you that you can feel that body heat, or the brush of skin.” Which could realistically serve to bring intimacy back into porn- something that many believe could help make porn more socially beneficial. 

Allowing users to both safely explore sexual gratification without judgement, and employ empathy at the same time. It can also help people better navigate their own psychosexual desires, being able to better experience sex from alternate perspectives- like women viewing VR porn from a male’s perspective or vice-versa. Which could also prove beneficial for the porn industry itself. Long propelled by technology, and technology arguably propelled by porn, the industry once again has the ability to create more artistic and emotionally satisfying content. 

Why VR Porn Could Be Useful

This type of emotional crutch could be extremely useful for long distance relationships, or early sex education. Not to mention help stave off depression and loneliness. In the wake of the 2020 novel coronavirus pandemic, PornDoe and other online providers saw a massive uptick in VR porn viewers. As the immersive experience can help them feel less isolated, making it easier to stay at home and put a pin in physical relationships that aren’t exactly safe during this time. 

Creating a better option for satisfying sexual needs when you don’t live with your partner. Technology has arguably been the life blood of the last few months, creating connections between loved ones and co-workers that would otherwise be unthinkable. “VR porn gives people the opportunity to feel like they have a genuine reprieve from all of the tension that builds from feeling caged at home.” PornDoe says. “While pornography is an excellent way to blow off some steam and kill a few minutes, VR porn lets you completely disconnect from what’s going on in the world right now, and reconnect with something that feels emotionally real.”