You know that feel in the cavity of your abdomen when you mind to your voice on a taping recorder ? It ’s awful , right ? Always way more high - pitched and nasal – just an overall horrific experience .

With that level of discomfort from just listening to yourself , think how it must be seeing yourself on video … have alone understand yourself on television having sex with multiple partners . Which brings us to our next question : what ’s it like to see yourself having sex with hoi polloi ?

To get the answers , we demand several porn wiz whether they see their own movies – and if so , how they felt watching their own undulating bodies in natural action .

Adult film actress Anikka Albrite

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" I doubt there ’s a individual millisecond of footage of myself out there that I have n’t control . Shooting porn is my ultimate fantasy , so watching my videos is kind of like going back in my journal and reread the ingress , reliving the memories . Mostly , it ’s moments I ’m happy to see , well-chosen to be taken back to , all nostalgic like , ' Oh yeah , I love when he / she did that ! ' But then there are also bit I see and cringe , like when my stomach sticks out in a sure position , or when I ’m orgasming in the scene , and I ’m like ' oh God never make that face ever again . ' Of course , I never remember those critical review when I ’m shoot , so I ’ll belike just continue poking my stomach out and making uncanny face forever . ”–Asa Akira

" Since my retirement in 2014 I have been able to find out my scenes without being extremely decisive of everything from the audio to the location to my makeup . When you are in the actual production side , all things become too expert and being critical becomes 2nd nature . With that said and my newfound life with less - extravagant sexual encounters , I now can go back and watch my scenes with delight . Sometimes I smile and say , ' Wow you did that ! ' Other times I lower as I say , ' It is less than probable you will be having sexual practice with that many sexy people at one time again ! ' I now can learn my scenes alone and revel the sexual escape of it all . “–Lisa Ann

" I do not ever watch my telecasting , only the photos and trailers to them . That is because it would n’t turn me on to see myself have sex . On top of that I am hypercritical about myself , so it ’s easy to be costless in still picture . I have no interestingness in critiquing myself all the fashion through a view . However , if I had awe-inspiring sex with a performer , I will sometimes go and watch a clip from it , just to remember how great he was . This is rare . “–Tasha Reign

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" I edit my own DVD and on-line scenes , so I do look out my own smut in the outgrowth . There have been many minute when I have been turn on while editing my own pornography , especially when I am remind of an amazing sexual climax I had or my chemistry with another performer . However , I do n’t jack off to my own erotica . I usually she-bop to fantasies that I ’d like to satisfy . “–Angela White

" I used to watch my own movies , until they started to all look the same . It was always some potpourri of excitement that slowly pass into repugnance as my fake eyelashes fell off and my lipstick smudged away . Now I just take for granted that whatever I put out begins initially clean - looking for and ends with me looking like one of those wet - eyed Chihuahuas that sort of make you want to envelop them up in a warm blanket and give them some dry solid food , except you do n’t , because you do n’t have it off that dog-iron and that would be uncanny . Year one of my career I thought it was pretty exciting , though . “–Kayden Kross

" To be honest , I seldom watch my own motion picture . Certainly I love smut , but if I come to a scene that I am in , I will glance for a bit . The problem is I would plausibly start critiquing myself if I watched them completely , so I forbear . “–Seth Gamble

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" I am very self - decisive , so commonly I do n’t care to watch my own porn unless it is something that was meaningful and particular , like doing a fit with my husband and AVN Male Performer of the Year Mick Blue , or from a feature film picture where there is a storyline . “–Anikka Albrite

" I HAVE to view my own movies . Because I demand to approve them before they go out into the Earth and , most often , I have to watch them several times to tell my editor program what changes to make . Recreationally though , I do watch the trailers to my movie , and I do watch the ' plots ' of my feature - length films , because I am quite proud of some of them and I think they ’re pretty mirthful ! However , if you are ask if I yank off to myself have sex , no . I am a self - hating Jew and I do n’t like myself intimately enough to do that . “–Joanna holy person

" I watch the intros if they ’re funny , but I run aside when my pale buttocks come out . “–Small Hands

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" It ’s really singular … I wasjustwatching through my last conniption yesterday . I personally do n’t get turned on by my own scene , no . I actually watch over my scene and see what I can do better . I look up to and pick apart myself when I watch my scenes and I think , because of that , I ’ve come a long way since I start . I do enjoy find out my Burning Angel girlfriends on silver screen , though , because those girls are fuck AMAZING!"–Axis Evol

" I used to fast - forward through them the first couple of metre , but now I ’ve follow all of them and I always feel unearthly being turn on by myself . peculiarly when I got DP’d . Is it vain to cerebrate I look keen with a penis , or two , inside of me ? Oh well . “–Veronica heighten

" I ’ll peek at the previews that come out for certain . I care to look out the ones that are thing I ’ve done for the first metre . Like my femdom one , anal retentive , or DP . Most of the time I do n’t watch over my own film though . I opine I ’m too self - critical . But I imagine it can be used as a tool to become an even better performer!"–Amber Ivy

" I take in my movies once . When they first come out . And I critique them . Do I look pretty , ugly , how did I sound , was my acting on spot ? All those things . And after that , I never watch them again . I ca n’t even get turned on by my own films just because I fuck how they ’re made . “–Sheena Rose

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Jeremy Glassis a author for Thrillist and ca n’t get off unless he ’s looking in the mirror .