When the entire world is experiencing virtualization during the Wuhan Virus from working-at-home to doing virtual classes, leading adult site, Pornhub, saw a huge rise in traffic during COVID-19 lockdown, while premium virtual porn creator VR Bangers also saw a 30% increase in traffic during the pandemic lock down. 

While the technology is still new, it appears to offer the unique perspective that regular adult movies cannot offer. It may still not be as good as real sex, but it’s definitely getting close to receiving a warning from psychologists for people to not become discontent with physical reality. 

Is VR porn as good as real sex?

Pornhub saw a 13.7% surge in traffic during since March 2020 when the site announced they would make certain premium contents free for everyone. Virtual reality porn has been one of the fastest growing categories for the adult site since launch back in 2016. And nowadays, for people isolating from sexual intercourse as a result of social distancing, porn in virtual reality appears to one good alternative to provide comfort that is close to the real sex. New York officials health officials say that "you are your safest sex partner" during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Adult film performer and writer for Vixen, Kayden Cross, said that porn satisfies human biological desires during the pandemic lock down. It’s is currently the safest route for those seeking sexual needs. There may be lots of boredom, or there may be curiosity for those experience VR for the first time. Anyhow, people are always looking for new ways to achieve sexual satisfaction.

While there are tons of 2D porn to keep a person company, there’s a lack of personalization from traditional porn movies. VR porn bridges the gap between the performer and the porn watcher, putting you in front of the other person as if you are really there. VR Bangers founder, Daniel Abramovich, says that the company saw a huge rise in traffic, and he believes this is because people are going insane during the lockdown, and this may be why the newly released Oculus Quest 2 quickly ran of of stock. 

VR porn is far more interactive than traditional porn, and the critical stimulus that drives senses in connection with virtual reality users is more than just a visual stimulus via hardcore images and videos. In VR, you feel like you are teleported in the same scene where the performer is located. The dopamine circuits in the brain where you put in minimum effort is about to get maximum feedback and reward like never before. 

Traditional cam sites offer live cam services where people can feel the live interaction, yet many VR cam sites are converting performers to do both 2D and VR live cams. Users have reported a very unique and personal interaction when the perform is looking at you straight in the eyes as oppose being a observer. In VR, you feel like you are actually there with the person. 

Psychologist Perpectua Neo believes that as the world is adapting for the new change, people who used to go out on the weekends to get laid with strangers, those arrange fuck buddies via dating apps will probably reconsider their agendas. The world suddenly does not welcome casual sex anymore. Could COVID-19 help decrease STDs? could this be one good thing this crazy virus brought to us other than the harm it’s caused for the society. Perhaps there are two sides to every coin. There’s always something that balances things out, depending which perspective you are viewing from. 

Nevertheless, the technology we have been blessed that allows a new form of porn to emerge is what’s allowing virtual porn to take masturbation to a whole new level. Remember that we will die if we don’t eat or drink, but we will be just fine and live if we learn to calm down our sexual desires and focus on more important things in life rather than something pure of a biological instinct, even if that refers a few session in VR porn as opposed to getting COVID 19 or STDs. This also implies true love is becoming far more important than simply sexual intercourse. 

For those who are in isolation, there may be ways to enable VR porn to reshape their sexual interest, habits, and activities. Instead of visiting your local strip club in facemark, StripchatVR may be a good alternative solution, and a direct infectius blowjob from a stripper may be replaced by a telidildonic device like the Loveness where partners can control each other’s sex toys at a distance. This means you can practice how to have sex remotely and safely, and eventually meet up one day to fulfill the true love role for each other. There may just be new ways to explore ways to heighten each other’s preferences, and how to spice things up a bit. 

Other concerns with watching too much VR porn

Watching too many VR porn movies may imply dissociation with physical reality and actual partners, and something called “porn-induced erectile dysfunction”. The idea is that you neural networks become sensual habituated with watching and being over-stimulated that hardcore porn consumption provides. This may be potentially problematic when people become more isolated from physical world than they were before. 

Will watching VR porn help me decrease anxiety and lower depression  

The answer is yes and no. Why? Because it all comes down to the root cause of anxiety and depression. But in the mean time, regardless what the root cause is, watching adult VR movies can certainly help alleviate to a certain degree, despite the limited amount of VR porn sites and VR cam girls presently available. 

The biggest issue right now is the amount of VR user and the amount of VR headsets available to truly establish a grand audience that can pay for new content on a regular basis. Certain porn producers saw a spike in revenue while some experience a decrease in traffic and demand. 

There may also be reason for certain users that used to have all the freedom they had to watch porn in however ways they wish. But now during lockdowns, they are forced to be under the same roof and room with their family members, which would be extremely weird to be masturbating watching porn in VR in front of your mom and dad or siblings. 

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