Many readers prefer the strong stimulation of erotic videos. Others prefer still photos or erotic fiction. Many use erotica only to start a masturbation session; once aroused, they switch to their imaginations or memories, changing fantasy situations to meet their needs. However, many readers find that after a while videos and magazines become stale, and so they revert to their imaginations.
Neither age nor gender showed a pattern of preference for any particular type of visual masturbatory stimulation. Both teens and adults, males and females, showed relatively equal preference for videos, still photos, erotic fiction, and imagination.]
Though videos and magazines are fun, I find that I'm much more aroused when I can conjure up my *own* visuals. This means I'm into erotic literature! Nothing quite comes close to being stroked by your own lurid imagination and enveloped by hot, tight, deliciously gyrating prose. Reading and writing graphic descriptions of sex makes my mind run wild, and nearly always ends with me soaked, sticky, and exhausted. A well-written story contains more vivid imagery than any image could. Whoever said that a picture is worth a thousand words obviously never experienced "literotica."
- age 20, Washington
This Week's Wackiest Response:
I use cheese to masturbate. For some reason it makes me very very aroused. Beginers should try it with cheese whiz, and work their way up to real dairy products. Milk is also fun to masturbate with. Nothing like thinking about a cow's udder squirting out milk, right?
- age 58, Arizona
I prefer the Internet. In Utah, the laws are strict and it's hard to find good wanking material. But with the Internet, you can find places not covered by Utah law – wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
- age 38, Utah
I use the Internet to get erotic pictures. It's fast, free, and most important, private. I especially enjoy pictures of women masturbating. I find this extremely arousing.
- age 18, Illinois
I prefer videos, because the sound of people having sex, with all the heavy breathing, gets me going.
- age 15, Australia
I try to just use my imagination with no other aids. If I look at stuff on the Net, I usually feel dirty afterwards.
- age 19, Canada
I find it easier to masturbate when I think of my friends – my girlfriends, not my guy friends. One friend in particular I have always fantasized about. I would never actually have the courage to do it; it's just a fantasy. But, one day, you never know – I just might have the guts!
- age 14, Australia (female)
My favorite resource is the live Web cams on the Internet. I search until I find a good-looking guy who looks to be about my age, and then I masturbate along with him, copying everything he does. Usually, my goal is to ejaculate when he does. Often, I use a NetMeeting so we can talk and encourage each other while we masturbate. In a live NetMeeting, I can always time my climax to correspond to the other guy's. Since we do not know each other, I feel even freer to explore fantasies with another guy while I admire his body.
- age 20, North Carolina
I like to talk online and discuss things with other masturbators of the opposite sex – such as the most erotic place we have done it and whether we have been caught or caught anyone else. Then we both normally end up masturbating, telling each other about it until orgasm!
- age 15, United Kingdom
My imagination is my favorite fantasy source. The situations my mind makes up are better than anything I could find online or in books. Occasionally, I'll go on the Internet and look around for interesting pictures and video, but I hardly ever masturbate to them. I just use the images to fuel my fantasies, and then go to my room to have a good session with my mind.
- age 19, Australia
I think the mind is the best and should be the only fantasy aid. I think pornography is just plain wrong. And no, I'm not religious; I'm actually extremely liberal. But pornography is degrading – more so to the person looking at it than the people in the pictures. Besides, if you develop a crutch to porn early in life, it could cause severe sexual problems with partners later. In my opinion, it's best just to leave it alone.
- age 14, Illinois
I most often use magazines because I can incorporate the pictures into whatever fantasy I like. They're easy to look through while I lie in my bed, which is where I usually masturbate. I occasionally use videos for a change of pace, but I try not to overuse them because I have more magazines than videos, and I don't want the videos to become stale for me. I almost never use the Internet, because I can't really get comfortable enough in my desk chair to enjoy masturbating. I might use something on the Internet to achieve erection, but once I'm ready to stroke, I move to my bed for the actual masturbation session.
- age 44, Tennessee
I prefer to use video. It gives a "you're-right-there-with-them" feeling you don't get with pictures.
- age 14, Netherlands
I don't use any aids for fantasy. My mind is very vivid! Sometimes I watch a video to get me started, but it's rare. And sometimes, pictures on the Internet, but just guys masturbating. That's the only thing I really like to watch.
- age 30, New York (female)
Porn movies and magazines don't excite me. It doesn't mean that I never watch such things; they just don't excite me. Most of the time, I just think about girls from school (and even sometimes about boys) – and so it goes.
- age 14, France
Getting a new porn video can sure be a treat, but I think the Internet is the place to go. Whatever you want to see or read can be found online. Still, pictures, movies, and text are only as good as your imagination.
- age 19, Connecticut
I read erotic stories – no pictures, just explicit detail. I usually get hot and horny and then go masturbate, using the "tub technique" (position myself under the tub faucet and let warm water flow onto my clitoris).
- age 14, California (female)
I don't actually use any visual aids, but I do like to watch myself in a full-length mirror so I can see the shivers and pleasure twitches and watch as my whole body enjoys the session. I grew up watching my older brother, so I guess it stems from that. However, it is a wonderful stimulus and I will always enjoy it.
- age 66, Texas
My mom got a subscription to Victoria's Secret, thanks to me. However, she somehow never gets to see any of them. They disappear right after they arrive at our house.
- age 15, Nebraska
I usually use the Internet because it is so accessible. But, if I had my choice I would use male masturbation videos. Just watching a guy masturbate and how he responds as he nears his climax makes me so horny I can almost ejaculate without even touching myself. During a video of normal length, I can usually reach 3 or 4 climaxes, of which the first is usually earth-shattering.
- age 55, California
My last few sessions have been with a pornographic movie my friend let me borrow. I always watch 5 minutes of a guy and a girl having sex. It looks like the girl I met in Europe. When I watch it, it sparks my fantasy, and I can almost feel the intercourse mentally!
- age 13, Alabama
I love to watch pictures (from the Internet) of clothed men. It leaves me lots of space to make up a fantasy with the guy in the picture.
- age 24, The Netherlands
I use the Internet. I like to look at images, MPEGs, and read stories. I'm straight, but I like to look at gay pictures and read gay stories and imagine myself in them – I don't know why, but it turns me on.
- age 17, United Kingdom
Masturbating on Web cam turns me on. I search for women on their cams, watch them, give them my cam address, and then go for it – and have great orgasms!
- age 50, Massachusetts
I find the Internet the best way for me to masturbate. I don't even have to go to porn sites. I like to go to the sites with non-nude teens. I ejaculate more with non-nude sites than with any other site out there.
- age 15, Florida
I find that closing my eyes and thinking about my past sexual experiences with ex-girlfriends produces the best orgasm. Normally, I just look at porn on the Internet and videos I have. But my best orgasms by far happen when I'm thinking about those special times.
- age 18, Ohio
As a Christian and a masturbator, I believe that even imagining sex with another person is just like committing adultery, which is a major sin. Therefore, I choose not to concentrate on lustful thoughts pertaining to others around me, but to the stress-relieving and very relaxing techniques found here at JackinWorld – *the* best masturbation site in the world!
- age 16, Mississippi
I rarely use any visual aids. When I do, I use video CD-ROMS I got from a friend.
- age 20, Belgium
A naked girl – not a pic but the real thing.
- age 15, Tennessee
I am a bisexual man, and I like to look at magazines, videos, and pictures on the Internet. I would start stroking myself while looking at the material, and when I'm aroused, I start undressing, close my eyes, and lie back. I then imagine that I am with that woman or man, and what I would say and do to them, as I continue stroking and squeezing at various speeds until I reach orgasm.
- age 31, Ireland
The jungle interests me, and I have always wanted to live in some sort of a tribe. I have a fantasy about living in a sexual tribe and reigning as king. As an aid, I like to put on tribal clothing if it is available. I also like to use paints to color my body, face, and of course, my penis.
- age 14, New Jersey
There is no question here. Videos. It's live action, and you can see and hear your fantasies. I really like the sounds guys make when they are about to ejaculate. It makes me do the same.
- age 20, Nevada
I usually prefer a visual in my head or a picture on the Internet. I don't believe in fantasizing about people you know, however. But when I fantasize with these things I like to see a guy and a woman having sex – not just one or the other.
- age 13, New York
I have always been attracted to naturally hairy women, but with the obsession with depilation being so widespread among women these days, "hairys" have become an endangered species. Then, last year I found an Internet site featuring all the hair I like – armpits, treasure trails, thighs, legs and, of course, lots of hair between the legs. Some of the models even have a few strands around their nipples! It's hair heaven. The site provides most of the material that I now use when I masturbate.
- age 50, Australia
I love the Internet! I can find any types of pictures I want. It's hard for me to find porn magazines. I did find my brother's porn magazines one year, but he's in college now.
- age 15, Wisconsin
I prefer to watch videos. My favorites are those that feature group sex – like 4 men having sex with one woman. When I get a new video, I can masturbate up to 4 times in a row, but as the video gets old (and I get used to the scenes), I don't get that turned on anymore.
- age 18, Brazil
Most of the time, I prefer the Internet, even though my parents have given me videos because they think there is nothing wrong with pornography. They are cool about this sort of stuff. I use the videos when I don't have access to the Net.
- age 16, United Kingdom
At my age, I must say I enjoy the Internet, as it is just so easy! Nothing outrageous – just the ordinary stuff, in particular the written word, preferably true. I used to have a large collection of videos, but I gave them away a few years ago.
- age 62, Australia
I prefer not to use any actually. I usually begin to feel guilty about becoming aroused by pornography or other sexual material in books or the Internet. Further, I don't find most of the pictures all that arousing. It takes more then just a nude woman to aroused me. I like sex and masturbation to be sensual, beautiful things, not just something wild and over rather quickly. My imagination is all I need to get aroused.
- age 17, California
I sometimes use the Internet, because it makes me get an erection, but it doesn't usually allow for long sessions. I like to use just my imagination, because I can usually stretch out those sessions. After a long session, the orgasm is always awesome.
- age 16, Maryland
When I masturbate with my coffee in the morning while still in bed, I have a notebook with 8x10 photos of past lovers. I flip through them, and when I am ready to orgasm, I pick one and end the session. I don't really need this, but I love to remember most of my past loves.
- age 79, Texas
Sometimes all I need to get going is to see a hot girl on TV. But every week, I go to a nudist Web site and look at some hot, naked girls. I don't like to go to those hardcore sites, but hot naked chicks relaxing on the beach or having a picnic gets me onto the ground, masturbating for hours.
- age 16, California
I prefer movies because you can watch them while you're lying down, and you don't have to turn pages or keep clicking. They also have sound, and the quality is perfect (on TV). You can sit back, relax, and masturbate.
- age 15, New York
I usually use just my memory of the time I watched my friend masturbating. He didn't know I was watching, but it is something that is implanted in my memory forever. I usually don't look at pictures or videos – they don't do anything for me. I would rather use the visuals from my mind of the real guys I have seen naked in person. That's a much bigger turn-on for me.
- age 23, Oklahoma
I usually write or read erotica from Usenet to help, because – especially with first-person stories – I can put myself into the story, which helps arouse me.
- age 17, West Virginia