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Watching: each other, mirrors and porn: a beginner's guide
Watching each other, yourselves in a mirror, or porn together. Seeing can be as hot as touching.
In the quiz
- Watching each other touch yourselves
- Watching porn together
- Sex in front of a mirror
How to start
- Try touching yourselves side by side.
- Pick porn together, or take turns choosing.
- Put a mirror where you can both see.
How to keep it safe
- Agree that porn isn’t a comparison.
- Talk afterward about anything you saw that you’d like to try.
What you need
- Starter: a mirror.
- Upgrade: an ethical, paid porn site.
Ideas to try
- Watch a scene, then copy it.
- Touching yourselves as a tease before sex.
Is your partner into it too?
Take the quiz on your own phones. You'll only see watching: each other, mirrors and porn in your results if you both said some kind of yes.
Sources
- Maddox, Rhoades & Markman (2011). Viewing sexually-explicit materials alone or together: Associations with relationship quality. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Herbenick et al. (2017). Sexual diversity in the United States: Results from a nationally representative probability sample of adult women and men. PLOS ONE.
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Educational, not medical or legal advice. Updated 2026-11-09.