What Types Of Music Should You Listen To During Kinky Romps?

Music in the bedroom is a lot like sex toys and kinky sex in general; whilst not everyone will like it, more people enjoy it than think they do, and the people who like all three tend to have more satisfying sex experiences overall.

According to a study by ZipHealth, people who listen to music during sex have more sex, more enjoyable sex, last for longer and have less performance anxiety during sex. As well as this, people who listen to music during sex are over a third (36 per cent) more likely to have a fetish.

This makes choosing a sex playlist quite important as the wrong choice, as happened with the rather unfortunate couple who rather infamously had sex to the experimental electronic song Cbat, could lead to a deeply unfun experience if not an outright breakup.

However, choosing the right songs is not always the easiest, as both sex and music are amongst the most subjective pleasures in this world. If you have a food fetish, that completes the trifecta.

A lot of the songs that the ZipHealth survey found were very popular in and out of the bedroom, and whilst some of this might be the result of indiscriminately looking through Spotify playlists where people will add the most obvious examples, the choices should be mutual.

Whilst it is so unlikely as to be impossible, the problem with Cbat as a sex jam was not just because it sounded like two balloons generating static electricity off each other, but because it was clearly a one-sided choice and a sign of atrocious communication.

Naturally, if you and your partner have similar tastes in music, nearly anything can become a sex jam, although the study showed that songs that are upbeat, energetic and exciting tend to work best as sex jams, with a pretty major overlap between good workout songs, dance songs and sex songs.

This is not always the case; their study found Closer by Nine Inch Nails was the fifth most common song across the playlist, The Hills by The Weeknd was second and Birthday Sex by Jeremih was tenth, none of which are particularly upbeat and fast-paced songs.

As well as all of this, the most unusual figure was that people who have sex to classical music claimed to be the happiest with their sex lives.

However, given that classical as a genre includes pieces as diverse as Beethoven’s Symphony Number Seven and Mozart’s Leck Mich im Arsch (which is German for exactly what you think it is), what exact aspect of classical music translates to a satisfying romp is unknown.

As well as this, music is not created or listened to in a vacuum; part of the reason why these songs are popular in bed is that they are popular in clubs or on the radio, so there is a chance you and your partner will hear them elsewhere.

Similarly, whilst Deftones may seem like a complete outlier as a slow, anguished heavy metal band, particularly with songs such as Change (In The House Of Flies), a lot of people found their songs to have a powerful, seductive energy to them.

Ultimately, you and your partner know what will set the mood best, and be willing to skip tracks or turn the playlist off completely if it isn’t working for either of you.