Why discussing your smut-viewing habits with your significant other can actually be good for your relationship.
Conservative forces have spent decades trying to rid a wank-obsessed nation of pornography. What these Bible-thumping radicals may not realize is that, by eliminating the theatrical ribaldry from horndog society, many romantic relationships—theirs included—could end up going limp and dry. Although their efforts have caused a multitude of masturbators to approach their porn consumption with a fistful of furtiveness, a new study reveals that all this secrecy could end up being a detriment to their overall sexual satisfaction.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, found that couples who discuss porn together stay together. At the very least, they’re coming together, which is not a terrible consolation prize, if we do say so ourselves. A study conducted by the researchers shows that people who consume a lot of porn without keeping it a secret from their partners are more sexually satisfied than those who hide it, suggesting that we should all be more candid with our partners about our diddling desires.
Great! The only problem is, getting guys to share the raunchy productions that they’re stroking it to is easier said than done. Men tend to avoid talking about their porn habits, the study finds, mostly out of concern that it will get them in trouble with the missus. No dude wants to end up sleeping on the couch just because his wife found his stash of skin mags in the garage. For a lot of guys, even if sharing their spank bank could help strengthen their relationship in some way, that talk would be a delicate dance. “Even when one of my partners begged me to talk about the porn I watch, it ended in a fight,” Mitch, 40, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, tells HUSTLERMagazine.com. “When I told her I like to watch heavy-set black women she immediately took offense. She was like, ‘Is that what you want?’”
