Exploring the relationship benefits of making—and watching—a sex tape with your partner.
Making a sex tape is one of those relationship rites of passage, right up there with meeting the parents or suffering through each other’s family holidays. Skipping it is like a basketball team refusing to watch game footage—they’re never going to see which parts of the repertoire are working and what needs to be tweaked. It’s part of the natural checks and balances of boning: watching yourself in the act, noticing the form, the contortions, the strange way your leg starts shaking when you’re taking it up the butt. And yes, some say the ramming replay is its own reward.
“It was revealing in ways I didn’t expect,” Michelle, 30, tells HUSTLERMagazine.com. “I noticed how much time he spent focused on me. Watching it back made me feel more loved and seen, in a way.”
“I didn’t think I’d like seeing myself, but halfway through, I was like, ‘Damn, I’m kind of hot.’”