Music improves your sexual experiences

Music has an effect on your bedroom experience. PICTURE: Supplied

Music has an effect on your bedroom experience. PICTURE: Supplied

Published Dec 21, 2016

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Music is the third wheel in relationships with over 55

% of the UK

agreeing that listening to music improves their sexual experiences.

Global music streaming service Deezer has released the

findings of a report looking at the impact that music has in the bedroom.

Carried out in collaboration with international sex, body language and

relationships expert Tracey Cox, ‘The Aphro-Deezer-ac Report’ has revealed how

music plays a key role in sex and how people use music to find their own

‘bedroom flow’.

In response to these findings, Deezer is encouraging music

fans in South Africa

to experiment with music in the bedroom using its signature feature Deezer

Flow, which, based on a unique algorithm, which combines users’ favourite songs

with new recommendations to create the perfect personalised soundtrack.

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Over half 55 % of those who took part in the study said that

listening to music while having sex improves the experience. A fifth 19 % claim

it makes them more aroused, a further 17 % felt that it makes things less

awkward and 16 percent said it simply makes sex better.

Interestingly, nearly a quarter of males 18 % claimed music

makes sex last longer, but only 9 percent of women agreed with this statement.

Almost half 47 % felt that rhythm was the key factor in music’s ability to

improve sex, followed by the tone of voice of the artist 43 % and melody of the

track 37 %.

Tracey Cox, international sex, body language and

relationships expert supported these findings, commenting: “Neuroscientists

have found that most people respond more to a beat when it’s played by lower

pitched instruments. Physiologically, people’s bodies love deep bass sounds,

which, if loud enough, also produce vibration, making it powerfully arousing.”

Deezer’s findings suggested that music has overtaken

traditional habits like drinking red wine with 21 % listening to music compared

to 13 percent who drank  spirits and 9 % who

ate chocolate.

The key tracks used to set the mood were identified as

Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, Rihanna’s sexy hit Skin and Lil Wayne’s track

Lollipop. Hand in hand with this, Saturday night from 10pm to midnight was

found to be the prime time to get under those bedsheets.

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Identifying the relationship between time of day and the

songs people choose to get intimate to, Deezer’s own analytics found that

streams of Let’s Get It On increased by a whopping 96 % on Saturdays compared

to earlier in the week. Similarly, Rihanna’s track Skin also saw an increase of

23 % on Saturday nights compared to Mondays and Tuesdays.

Cox said: “Music is a

powerful, potent aphrodisiac, so I’m not surprised so many Brits find it

improves their sexual experiences. Listening to music causes our brain to flood

with dopamine, the pleasure hormone. The same thing happens when we’re getting

intimate, so it effectively puts our bodies “in the mood”. There’s scientific

proof that music is a mood enhancer in the bedroom – but the wrong song can

have the opposite effect.”

When it comes to the most popular genres to get down to,

Pop, R&B and Rock topped the ‘turn on’ list. But the head-banging of Heavy

Metal doesn’t translate to the bedroom, with two fifths or 40 % of those polled

picking this as the biggest turn off, closely followed by Rap at 35 %.

It’s no surprise that Marvin Gaye also claimed the number

one spot for voices most likely to get Brits in the mood, with his sultry tones

securing 12 % of the vote, pipping both Michael Buble at 10 % and Lionel Richie

at 9 % to the post.

This was again reflected in Deezer’s own playlist data,

which showed that streams of Marvin Gaye increased by a third or 33 percent on

average each Saturday night, cementing his position as the king of ‘sexy time’.

Deezer’s head of editorial and content, Roman Tagoe, said:

“With over half of people claiming that music has a direct impact on sexual

performance, there is clearly a natural synergy between music and sex – as both

allow people to lose their inhibitions and discover feelings. Created by people

who love music, Deezer Flow identifies and recommends music to suit your

personal tastes, meaning when you’re looking to get “in the mood”, you can rely

on us to get things right.”

On the other end of the scale, Bieber has well and truly

topped the flops, with two fifths or 39 percent claiming his music puts them

off sex. Kanye West and Eminem also need to do more to ‘hot up’ their tracks,

with over a third claiming they would skip their music mid-flow.

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