Bating explained
When most people think of poppers, they think of sex. But when most people think of sex, masturbation is not what usually comes to mind. Masturbation is a type of sex and self-care, however, and a quite popular one. And, just like partner sex, masturbation can be enhanced perfectly with poppers.
There’s even a massive, widespread global bating community of people whose primary or sole form of sex is bating; members of these bating communities prefer solo sex to sex with a partner and choose bating over partner sex. Among the bating communities, poppers are extraordinarily popular. You don’t have to be in a bating community, however, to enjoy the benefits of bating and poppers.
What is Bating?
In a simplistic sense, bating may be thought of as no more than another word for the act of masturbating. However, among those who use and identify with the term bating, it refers to a more ritualized and intentional approach to masturbation. For bators, bating is distinct from spontaneous masturbation in involving more preparation and a more mindful process. Bators consider the activity of self-pleasuring as less clinical than masturbation, rather more of a form of deep, self-love and soothing, mental relaxation than a mere means to an end of achieving orgasm.
For example, “bators” might incorporate:
- Lubricants like Bator Balm Gentlemans long-lasting Masturbation Creme
- Sex toys like the Tenga Original Vacuum Cup Masturbator or the PDX Fuck My Cock Masturbator
- Gear like leather, rubber or athletic wear
- Music like a special playlist
- Porn or live webcam
- Room enhancements like special lighting or a mirror placed so as to watch oneself in the act
Bators might also incorporate poppers, and many do.
Health Benefits of Bating
Whether you consider bating synonymous with masturbation, whether spontaneous or intentional, or you adhere to a more ritualized understanding of self-pleasuring, there are numerous health benefits associated with it. Clinical studies have found that masturbation can:
- Reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer in men, cervical cancer in women and certain other forms of cancer in both
- Combat insomnia and improve quality of sleep
- Lower anxiety, stress and depression and subsequently increase mental health
What does Popperbating mean?
The word popperbate is a colloquial term for combining bating and poppers. To take poppers while you masturbate is to popperbate.
Another common use of the term popperbate is in reference to edging and gooning, with people in the bating community often using the term popperbating to describe edging and gooning on poppers.
How Poppers help you Edge
Poppers can help make you last longer while self-pleasuring, which means you can enjoy a longer session. Another way people commonly prolong sex is with a sexual practice known as edging. For many people, particularly men, sexual arousal diminishes greatly after orgasm, which means, if you want to enjoy sex for longer, you need to avoid orgasming too soon.
To edge is a process in which you bring yourself or your partner to the verge of climaxing, then pull back or ease up on the stimulation to reduce arousal and prevent an orgasm from happening. This allows you to get the maximum pleasure from sex without triggering a sudden and significant loss of arousal that brings that sexplay to an abrupt end.
This makes poppers, which already help extend the length of time you enjoy sex before orgasming, a perfect tool to edge.
Lowered Inhibitions
Another common effect of poppers is to reduce inhibitions. With your inhibitions lowered, you may be more inclined to ride out a session for longer and take actions to help crank up that sexual pleasure such as making unflattering faces or vulgar verbal utterances. In other words, lowering inhibitions is another major way that bating and poppers can help with both edging and gooning.
Intensified Orgasm
The practice of edging often helps intensify orgasm when it finally does come. By building up pleasure over an extended duration, the eventual orgasm can be both more intense and longer lasting. To goon is often described as an effort to achieve a sustained orgasmic state. In a gooned-out state, the ecstasy of climax is sustained without the common subsequent drop in arousal.
Poppers also help to intensify and extend orgasms, which means that bating and poppers, whether to edge, goon or simply masturbate, can work hand in hand to help give you bigger, longer orgasms.
The Bating Communities
There is a large online communites you can join where people share their popperbate experiences and advice. This communites evolved from open discussions of self-pleasuring, particularly on the internet, in which people shared their experiences of the act and discovered a kinship in their celebratory approach to it. This promoted a large-scale shifting of cultural viewpoints around masturbation that disintegrated the taboos about it and created a camaraderie and solidarity among fellow bators who take pride and satisfaction in engaging in the practice.
Some people in the bating community use popperbate to edge and goon. Some enjoy bating and poppers together via webcam in remote, mutual masturbation sessions. Often the faces and phrases people make during these sessions help each other to achieve, extend and intensify the euphoria produced by bating and poppers solo.
Ways to Popperbate
You can enjoy bating and poppers alone, with a partner (in person or remotely) or with a group. You can enjoy it regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. The trick, if you’re new to bating with poppers, is to start slow. Only use a small dose of lower-potency poppers at first until you know how they affect you. And, if you’re thinking of exploring edging or gooning on poppers, understand that, just because you may have used poppers while masturbating before, their effects on a gooner or edger can be different, often more intense, and you should therefore approach this as a new activity and experiment slowly with dosages fresh.
Once you’re comfortable combining bating and poppers, you’re ready to use a higher-potency form of poppers like Twisted Beast Bator Poppers. Made by one of the most popular brand of poppers in the U.K. particularly in the gay hardcore community, Twisted Beast Bator Poppers use an isoamyl alcohol nitrite formula. Twisted Beast also makes a slightly stronger formula called Hypno Poppers.
Safety First
As always, whenever using poppers, make sure you constantly keep safety at the forefront. One way to do this is to be sure to buy poppers only from reputable sellers like Poppers-Now.com that sells only products produced by the most trusted and well-reputed poppers manufacturers.