Reasons Porn is Better than Sex: Time

It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, so let’s start with the basics, shall we? On the whole, having sex with one or more real women is typically more pleasurable to me than consuming porn and strokin it. That shouldn’t be controversial at all.

But hey – did you notice the caveats I put in that seemingly simple sentence? For one, I said that sex is “typically” more pleasurable than porn and masturbation, which implies that sometimes it’s not. Which, unfortunately, is true: I’ve had some pretty disappointing sex in my time (and some pretty fantastic porn/masturbation sessions), so while it’s not typical it does sometimes happen that specific instances of sex are not as good as consuming porn and pleasuring myself.

And why did I jam in that phrase “on the whole”? I’m no mind reader, but I’m pretty sure what I meant is that there might be certain aspects of sex that aren’t as good as certain aspects of porn. And I happen to agree with myself on that point. (I am, after all, pretty smart.) For example, there’s no comparison between, say, lying post-coitally in bed with a sexy girl, feeling her skin against mine as our heart rates and breathing come back to normal, vs., say, lying in bed with a tummy covered in cum after masturbating. The former is romantic; the latter is just something you have to live with until you gather up the strength to go to the bathroom and clean off your sticky mess.

It seems to me I talk about post-coital spooning quite a lot on this blog. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a fetish of mine, but I definitely seem to enjoy that mental picture.

On the other hand, it’s sometimes a lot of trouble to schedule time with a girl, work my schedule out so that the event doesn’t look suspicious to my wife, stop to buy condoms on the way (and then throw out the spares after so I don’t have any incriminating evidence), maybe book a hotel room, etc. etc. And of course when I say “schedule” I mean schedule, I don’t know any girls who are available 24/7 any time I want to have sex; we have to arrange a time when we’re both available and both healthy (I wrote this during cold season and women have certain times of the month when they’re not available and there are a bunch of other things that could go wrong), and there’s always the chance that one or both of us might have to cancel at the last minute.

I could make things a lot simpler by having sex with my wife, of course. (And don’t get me wrong, I often do!) That helps with some of the scheduling issues. But it’s still not a slam dunk: she’s not guaranteed to want sex at the same times I do, and the whole health thing is still a factor.

Porn, on the other hand, takes very little scheduling. If I feel like consuming porn my phone or my laptop is usually within grabbing distance – even if a woman isn’t – ha! – and it only takes a second to pull up Smutty or some other site with all the porn I could ever want. On some occasions I have more time than others, sure, but let’s be honest: even if I only have a very short amount of time available I can still make something happen. But when it comes to sex, especially with women who aren’t my wife, I need blocks of hours at a time where I can get out of the house (or office) to meet up, spend a good amount of time together, enjoy the afterglow, and then get cleaned up before getting back to the office or back home.

So how much time is needed? I seem to love tables on this blog, let’s create another one:

Time Available	Enough for Sex?	Enough for Porn?
5 minutes	Are you kidding?	I might pull up a browser and peruse some porn for fun, but this isn’t really enough time to get myself off.
20 minutes	Still not even close	With this amount of time I can definitely find a good video and squeeze one off.
30 minutes	Technically, for some married couples, this might be enough time. In my case this isn’t enough time for the “preparations” my wife feels she has to do (I have no idea what she’s up to in that bathroom) and then have sex in this amount of time.	Now we’re talking about a good amount of time to open a browser and take my time with it. This is enough time to let it build for a bit, and really enjoy myself. Women might be jealous that 30 minutes is all it takes for a leisurely wank; for some women I’m guessing 30 minutes counts as a “quickie.”
1 hour	If my wife and I are both in the mood this is workable.	I’ve got a couple of options with this much time: I can really take my time with it, maybe watch a long video or get into some erotic fiction or something, or I can have a quickie, watch some TV, and then round out the hour with another quickie.
2 hours	If I know about a 2 hour block of time with enough advance notice it would be tempting to call a female friend and arrange to meet, but the stars will have to align pretty much perfectly for this to work because there’s no margin for error.	Much as I like the idea of spending 2 hours pleasuring myself, letting the pressure build and build until I finally give myself release, the truth is that I’m more likely to treat this like two 1-hour blocks, and one of those blocks might not even be devoted to porn. I do have other interests!
3 hours	This is a good amount of time to arrange a rendezvous with a willing partner. There’s enough time to get there, get ready, enjoy ourselves, enjoy the afterglow, and even get cleaned up.	From this point on, it’s anyone’s guess as to what I’ll do with all this time. I’ve had entire nights when I brought myself off over and over and over again – there have been nights when I’ve been surprised at how I couldn’t be satisfied and needed more and more and more – and there have been times when I’ve had huge blocks of time like this to myself and decided that I was happier just taking a nap. Frankly, when there’s this much time involved I’m usually going to be thinking more about physical company than about porn and masturbation, though that’s not an iron-clad rule.
An afternoon	If I have an entire afternoon free I will do everything in my power to schedule a rendezvous. You can’t pass up an opportunity like that.
An entire night	At this point we start to get into a situation where there's too much time. There’s a lot of pressure for everything to be perfect. I might arrange a rendezvous of a few hours, and then go home and spend the rest of the night enjoying the peace of being by myself. (And probably enjoying porn.)

So while I stick with my previous thought – On the whole, having sex with one or more real women is typically more pleasurable to me than consuming porn and strokin it – it’s also definitely true that sex requires a lot more time than porn, which means that porn comes out the winner when time is lacking.