The sound of the waves. Coffee spurting out of a Italian coffee maker. The meow of a cat. A song. The laugh of the person you love the most. Strong close the door. The moan before an orgasm.
According to the RAE, the sound is the “sensation produced in the organ of hearing by the vibratory movement of bodies, transmitted by an elastic medium, such as air.” And that feeling can be very pleasant. We are talking about the excitement that listening can cause us. A word whispered at the right time in the ear, for example. Or a moan that escapes the throat and tells us it’s time to pick up the pace.
In addition to being a wonderful indicator (listening during sex is one of the most effective guides we can use), the organ of hearing is a very powerful instrument to increase pleasure. I don’t say it, science says it.
The sense of hearing in sex
82% of women say their partner’s moans turn them on more according to a global survey of Arcwave carried out on 22,315 men and women from 15 different countries. Although the data reflected that 40% of men do not make any noise when they masturbate and 78% of women do. And one more fact, 95% of women and 85% of men moan during sex.
For the sexologist Ana Lombardía, “we use moans to bond with our partner and increase the quality of the sexual encounter.” It is not essential, but listening connects us not only with our partner, but also with our own pleasure.
There is also a fetish for sounds or auralism, sexual arousal by music, sounds or certain noises. So much so that by itself, the ear can cause an orgasm. A random fact: on TikTok there are more than 75 million visits for the search “what is auralism”. Because it is much more common than it seems as they inform us from LELO who state that “visual stimuli excite men more and other senses, such as sound, excite women more.”
And not only that. Listening excites us, from music to dirty talk. The latter, the so-called art of dirty talking in bed, has numerous benefits in a sexual encounter. Just like ensure in Diversualreinforces communication and complicity, as well as increase desire and arousal.
Tricks to use the ear during sex
You have already read the first trick and it is effective to use as a couple. We talk about dirty talka practice that consists of saying “dirty” things to your partner in bed. From “I love how you are touching me”, something that they will say to you if you get into these tips on how to masturbate your partnereven whispering questions like “where do you want me to kiss you now?”, or even simply saying your partner’s name in a pleading tone and followed by “don’t stop”.
The moans, the whispers, the sound of rubbing and kissing… is an excellent igniter of desire. It can even arouse the autonomic meridian sensory response or ASMR. You can put it into practice by avoiding the so-called “sensory distraction”. You only have to blindfold your eyes and thus the rest of the senses will be sharpened.
Erotic audios are the answer to how to use your ear in our solo encounters. The calls porn audio We are able to get a thousand, little word of assiduous user Calliope, an app of erotic stories.
Another option to enjoy sex more using the sense of hearing is with music, capable of sending a shiver of pleasure to the brain that can even be seenaccording to this study published in Science Alert. Je t’aime moi non plusby Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, is the song most listened to by Spaniards when they have sex, according to a study carried out by LELO.
We cannot stay with just one, that’s why we leave you here the sexiest songs to mark a night of passion alone or accompanied because when it comes to pleasure, hearing works extremely well.
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