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These days, we are more into recording our experiences than living them. All you have to do is attend a concert, and you will see hundreds if not thousands of cameras raised, capturing the moment, with attendees choosing to see a performance through the screen versus with their own eyes. While we are out recording moments for the gram publicly, we are also recording our intimate moments privately. Now almost everyone has a smart phone, making it super easy to take video or photos of your partner during sex.
“More people are filming themselves having sex with their partner because it is fun,” sex and relationships expert at LoveHoney told Metro. “Let’s face it, our whole lives are captured on our smart phones, so why not sex, too? Lots of couples get off on watching themselves afterwards on film and having sex again because they are so turned on. And if you are going to dress up in sexy outfits for a session, of course you are going to want footage of the action.”
But if you’re going to engage in some on-camera action, make sure you do it sober and with consent.
“It is not a good idea to get the cameras out with a new partner or someone you don’t trust completely,” Annabelle says.
“Who knows where the footage might end up? You just don’t know who they will be sharing it with. By all means film with someone you trust but on the strict agreement that you both delete the footage in the event of a split.”
Besides the excitement of recording and watching, another sex expert, Stu Nugget from Lelo, says people like to watch each other for self-involved reasons. Basically, it’s a sexual selfie.
“Perhaps we’re all narcissists at heart: we all want to see ourselves as sexual, and by filming ourselves, we can do that literally, over and over again,’ he tells Metro.co.uk. ‘But it’s not a new thing. It’s just masturbating in the mirror for the digital age. There’s something intensely intimate about self-eroticism, and there’s something inherently sexy about watching yourself having sex while you’re having sex. It’s all very meta,” he explained.
