![]() Polyamorous educator and activist Tiana North, known professionally as Tiana GlittersaurusRex (opens in a new tab), used voice notes to bridge the communication gap between a partner who prefers to text and herself, who prefers phone calls. For someone who may not be comfortable jumping into phone sex, voice notes can be a toe-dip. "You have the time to curate or wait until you're in the right mood," said Kocak. "You get to know someone's interior world so much through their voice." Lewd voice notes, however, are more akin to sexting than chatting on the phone, and they have advantages that a call doesn't. You might be asking yourself: If I'm just using my voice, why not just have phone sex? Well, you certainly can. From someone's cues, tone, pauses, breath, you can create a world from what's essentially an mp3. "I like to build the fantasy in my mind, and audio erotica or sexy voice notes or anything in that vein is allowing you to do that," she said. Sometimes when she masturbates, traditional porn is too much she doesn't need the visual stimulation. Like Spiegel, Kocak also sees the value of audio porn versus visual. ![]() ![]() She told Mashable, "You get to know someone's interior world so much through their voice." Even if you can only hear someone's voice, you can tell a lot about who they are.Ĭourtney Kocak, podcast producer and co-host of comedy-sex-travel podcast Private Parts Unknown (opens in a new tab), reiterated the intimacy of audio. As speech scientist Rupal Patel (opens in a new tab) told NPR in 2019, voice signals our age, gender, and other aspects of personality (opens in a new tab). Voice is an integral part of our identity and reveals much more than the literal words we speak. "Audio notes can often be more intimate and hot than a nude," Spiegel said in a comment to Mashable about voice notes specifically. Video porn was unappealing, but audio left room for fantasy. Caroline Spiegel, founder of the user-generated audio porn site Quinn, discovered the medium when recovering from an eating disorder. Voices are inherently sexy, which may be why audio erotica is on the rise just like podcasts. ![]() Voice notes can be sexy, or downright dirty, a simple yet unique alternative to sexting. Voice notes aren't just for platonic relationships, though. She wrote, "Audio messages are great time savers, and they're also a perfect way to show someone that you feel extra comfortable expressing yourself to them." Last year, my Mashable colleague Nicole Gallucci waxed poetic on the wonders of sending voice notes to her friends - and others' love of doing so as well. It's not just strangers' voices we're craving in our ears it's each others' too. Even before the pandemic, audio was booming in the form of podcasts (opens in a new tab), and with the rise of podcast adaptations (opens in a new tab) it seems that's only going to go up from here. Judging by the explosion of audio app Clubhouse and its subsequent Instagram competitor, Twitter's 'Spaces' copycat, and even a rumored Reddit contender, I'm not the only one. Excited, hushed, sleepy, heavy - I yearned for it all. After many pandemic months of not dating or even meeting people in real life, I missed specific aspects of other humans: banter, shared interests, touch.
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