Definitions
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- noun The act of a person focusing on him/herself during sexual activity, as if watching oneself as a third person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It creates a condition called "spectatoring," where you’re so concerned with your performance during sex that you start to feel distanced from the act itself.
Turning Up the Heat 2007
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By fknvirty, December 14, 2009 @ 7: 59 am re spectatoring: yers in good company with mander sayer (presumably of darlo rd, the cross) there, give her my regards laddie.
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Modeling your behavior after what you’ve seen on-screen can lead to what’s known as “spectatoring”—that is, worrying about how you look and sound while you’re having sex, a behavior the sex researchers William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson long ago posited was bad for sexual functioning.
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? Kate Julian 2019
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From Extreme Fear, by Jeff Wise, p. 96:
"Worried about whether they'll be able to perform sexually or not, men can get caught up in the observer perspective, distractedly watching themselves anxiously to see whether their worst fears will be realized. Masters and Johnson called this kind of behavior 'spectatoring.'"
August 23, 2010