Skip navigation! Story from Sex Tips. Lately, a lot of people have been wondering: Does increasing and easy access to porn change our understanding of what sex should look, feel, and sound like? The New York Times argues that teenage boys, in particular, have a warped sense of sex thanks to pornography. But porn isn't the only medium to blame for this kind of confusion, and people were ignorant about sex long before the internet made X-rated films easy to access.

By Tess Barker. B efore I saw sex, and certainly before I had it, I heard it. Throughout my adult life, I would hear that breath-filled aria countless times. A neighbor in my college apartment building once wailed so urgently that the first time I heard her I called the cops. But for the most part I heard it from myself.

Experts wondered the same thing. In the study, they asked 71 sexually active heterosexual women between ages 18 and 48 for more details about vocalization during sex. The researchers found that many of the women did make noise, but not necessarily while they were having an orgasm. Are female orgasms really just a 'bonus'?

This sound may be inappropriate for some users You can turn these warnings off in your user settings page. A man and a woman having sex with lots of moans and squeaky bed noises. About: I told a couple that I'm friends with about Freesound and they got real excited pun intended. I edited the recording a bit in Audacity.