The sensuality of erotica has never been more so available than it is today. In 2022, us vulva owners are owning our sexy imagination and embracing our erotic side to fire up our desire! Exploring fantasies, writing about them, reading sex stories and listening to sweet nothings in our ears – there are plenty of ways to fulfil our fancies and combine our creative minds with sexual pleasure.
Using our sensual imagination stimulates our emotional want for sex; aka our desire. Erotic content can help awaken the sexual senses and help with arousal. Arousal is the body’s physiological changes, such as vaginal lubrication, erect nipples and engorged clitoris, in reaction to sexual stimuli. Giving our pleasure its full potential through recognising and giving space for our sexual fantasies is a great way to look after our sexual wellbeing from the inside out.
Curious but unsure of where to start? Here’s a mini guide to finding erotic content online that’s catered to women.
Premium pleasure toy company Smile Makers has a podcast called the Clitastic Chronicles, where they releasing free audio erotica for your listening (sexual) pleasure. Available on Apple or wherever you get you get your podcasts, mix fantasies about strangers and steamy vibrator sessions with some pleasure-positive broadcasting from sexperts! Tune out from the stresses of daily life and tap into your desires.
Download Dipsea for an erotic library at your fingertips. The app has a wealth of categories for whatever mood you are in, and curates suggestions just like Spotify picks your next favorite listens. We’re big fans of Dipsea’s focus on sexual wellness too, drawing the connection between self-exploration and mindfulness. It’s a must-have self-love subscription in our opinion!
Since 2016, Smile Makers has been working with vulva owners to write and publish free erotic stories to read in bed (or the train, gym, coffee shop…take your fantasies with you on the go). Just like some of our vibrators, these sex stories are based upon real fantasies and written by the people that dream them up. From lockdown lust to sexy poems, our free erotica is out in the open on our blog for you to discover!
Want something that is easy on the eyes? For some visual stimulation that does good for the world, head to Erika Lust. The erotic film director makes woman-centric porn that is ethically made, and raises money for charities to ensure support for people working in the online adult industry. Her project, XConfessions, is a crowdsourced collection of explicit short films where real fantasy submissions are turned into cinematograhic erotica.
Talking of crowdsourcing, did you know that Smile Makers also collects and publishes erotic submissions? Whether you have a fantasy you’d like to be turned into a written or audio piece, or have already penned an erotic story you’d like to share, submit your story to them and you might just get published!
This article was first published in Smile Makers. Smile Makers is a sexual wellness brand on a mission to inspire vulva owners to set their own standards for good sex. As a brand, they bring sexual wellness products into mainstream spaces, remove limiting beliefs around vulva sexuality and foster a global, pleasure-positive and light-hearted conversation about sex.
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