Audio porn is a rapidly-growing genre of adult content based solely on the sounds and narratives of sex – rather than the visuals.
Headphones + mobile + bedtime scrolling + short sessions = a recipe for good times, right?
The big appeal is for those of us who like to use our imaginations instead of our eyeballs. If mainstream porn feels alienating, cringey, or “not made for me,” audio removes the dodgy visuals and lets your brain cast the scene properly.
Though it sounds quite a simple category, audio porn actually covers a diverse range of content. From the ultra-trendy ASMR and erotic narratives, to sound files of couples having sex – and even saucy confessions…
Why Audio Erotica Is Booming
Audio erotica is best understood as adult content designed purely for arousal via sound… that can come in many forms: spoken fantasy, erotic storytelling, roleplay, guided masturbation, erotic ASMR, or even ambient soundscapes that cue intimacy without the visuals.
The format has been around for a while, evolving across forums, podcasts, Reddit, fandom communities and (more recently) within the NSFW creator economy.
One thing that we can certainly trace is the acceleration of the audio porn industry from the late 2010s.
In 2018, Dipsea launched as a romance-led “female-centric” listening experience. It was one of the first major platforms to do audio erotica well… polished writing, proper voice acting, actual pacing… not just someone whispering filth into a $20 USB mic.
And that’s really where the modern boom began.
A year later in 2019, audio erotica app Quinn was founded by Caroline Spiegel (sister of the Snapchat founder!). It was conceived with the intention of becoming a quasi-“Pornhub For Women“.
As in… Less gross, more fun.
It took a couple of years for Quinn to achieve stable growth, but by the time it had, the audio porn space was really starting to look less like a quirky sub-community and more like a legitimate vertical inside the wider adult industry.
Quinn didn’t just copy Dipsea’s studio polish. It tapped into something different, and fitting for the modern web: independent creators as the draw.
So instead of a tightly curated in-house catalogue, Quinn built a marketplace-style ecosystem instead:
- creators upload
- listeners subscribe
- tipping mechanics (“Roses”) work to fuel engagement
It worked a charm – and the company has been the recipient of over 400% year-on-year growth, with annual revenue passing $12 Million and a steady slew of venture capital.
We had long seen signs of audio erotica’s latent appeal, particularly with women, but it’s only really the last five years that platforms have developed to truly commercialise the trend.
As we’ll see below, there are now many places where you can source audio porn.
What Are The Best Audio Porn Sites?
So… where should you actually go if you want to test-drive this whole horny headphones revolution?
As always in the adult space, the answer… depends… on what you’re looking for:
- Polished, romance-forward storytelling?
- Creator-driven dirty talk?
- Free community uploads and taboo submissions?
- Or something that blurs the line between porn and wellness?
Let’s break down the major players shaping audio erotica:
Quinn
What makes Quinn interesting isn’t the origin story; it’s the massive scale and accessibility of the platform – you have independent creators/narrators working around the clock to put out audio content, all of which is beautifully presented with trending charts, discoverable categories and community-based playlists.
Listening to the top hits here, there’s a noticeable shift in pacing compared to ultra-polished audiobook competitors. Quinn content feels more immediate… closer to direct-to-ear fantasy. The top creators have achieved idol status on this site, racking up tens of millions of listens.
But what I love about the splatform is it bends around how you like to consume your audio erotica.
Sure, the algo will surface “content you might like“, but you can easily go hunting yourself through a vibrant tagging system, or scenario-based recommendations (Ideal Date Night, Praise and Degradation), or by headphone-binging the latest Quinn Original series.
It’s impossible to get bored with the sheer bombardment of fresh audio content – from both new creators and established hands. You can even try it yourself as a side hustle – as a Creator, or a Script Writer!
Quinn runs on a subscription model, $7.99 monthly, or discounted to $4.99/month (when paid annually). The Roses tipping system lets listeners directly support creators inside the app, which adds some nice patronage dynamics without forcing users off-platform.
And for the many creators operating on Quinn, that engagement-based payout model is a vital part of the appeal. It’s a community that feels alive… and that’s hardly a surprise given the growth trajectory.
Dipsea
Dipsea is the second major audio erotic platform, and one that has really grown like crazy over the last few years. It offers a more curated UX than Quinn, a cohesive listening experience which is dialled in – rather than jumping around eclectically between a hundred different creators.
You open the app, and you know exactly what you’re getting: a cinematic soundscape, professional acting, and a narrative structure that respects your time. I’d argue it’s the perfect entry point if you are new to audio erotica or if you simply value consistent production quality over a diversity of voices/styles.
Undoubtedly, it’s the production quality where Dipsea really shines.
They have over 1000 “spicy audiobooks” and the majority are produced by an entire team instead of a solo creator.
How does that affect the listening experience?
Well, the biggest difference is you have dedicated voicing for each character, lush sound design to fully immerse you in the story, and a sense of flow between audiobooks. A lot of time goes into each release – with a systemised approach to ensure it meets the site’s standards.
That results in a distinct “Dipsea-style”; one that leans hard on realistic storytelling. I would suggest listening to a couple of their samples and comparing it to the free content on Quinn. Do you prefer the polish… or the unpredictable appeal of community submissions?
Dipsea is slightly more expensive – $12.99/monthly, but this drops to $5.83/month if you pay annually.
Literotica
https://www.literotica.com/c/audio-sex-stories
Best known for its erotic literature, Literotica has been hosting amateur adult content since 1998 and is a powerhouse for saucy fiction.
However, just like Amazon offering both Kindle and Audible, Literotica knows that some of its audience prefer to listen rather than read.
As a result, you can find a large selection of adult content on the site has been recorded for audio.
There are 1500+ sex stories (or text with audio) to choose from and the site’s star rating system means you can quickly see those that have been well-received. The content here is widely varied – meaning you can just as easily find fetish and kink audio files as you can vanilla or erotic audio fiction.
Once again, all content is produced by amateurs and is user-submitted. Registering an account is free and gives you access to user comments and allows you to rate the stories you download as well as store your favorites in your profile.
See our full Literotica walkthrough for a closer look!
r/GoneWildAudio
https://www.reddit.com/r/gonewildaudio/
While Literotica has bossed the user-submitted erotica market for several decades, there are some modern alternatives taking a hefty chunk out of the pie.
One massively popular source of audio porn is Reddit’s r/GoneWildAudio sub.
This has over 2 million subscribers with almost 10K posts added every week.
If you find it hard to sift through the audio samples on Quinn or Literotica, there’s a high risk you might actually drown in the stuff on Reddit. This subreddit is literally a HIVE of audio porn.
Billed as “a place to submit naughty recordings of yourself alone or with your consenting partner(s)“, each post is clearly marked as F4M or M4F.
Quality really does vary from upload to upload (I like to sort through Best and Top from the last week to highlight the good stuff). It’s all free though. Just dive in, grab the audio (often via SoundGasm), and away you go.
Reddit has several other communities sharing audio porn.
You can also check out:
- /r/FreeAudioPorn/ – 43K members, posting all types of erotic audios and scripts.
- /r/pillowtalkaudio/ – 200K members, with submissions of NSFW audios, scripts, poetry, story readings.
FrolicMe
https://www.frolicme.com/audio/
FrolicMe is a different animal to everything else on this list. It’s not really an audio-first platform. It’s not a creator marketplace. And it’s not trying to be the next anything…
Founded in 2015 by Anna Richards, FrolicMe is a British independent erotica platform that spans the entire spectrum of films, photography, written fiction, an online magazine, and – the bit we care about – a growing library of audio stories.
It’s less as an audio porn app and more a curated “ethical boutique” that just so happens to have a very good audio section tucked behind the paywall (£4.95/month).
I counted around 200 stories in total – ranging from light BDSM to wild threeways and hotwife sex. FrolicMe’s audio carries a particular aesthetic sensibility that’s hard to pin down until you’ve listened to a few. It’s… refined. Not in a sanitised way – the content gets plenty explicit – but in that classic ethically-produced smut kind of way.
As far as I can tell, everything is professionally produced in-house.
Of course, a major benefit of this subscription is you also get access to their library of female-friendly visual porn (actual HD movies, around 30 minutes in length). As well as hundreds of erotic stories.
Listen to Po
Listen to Po claims to be the “Internet’s only sex audio site” – which is obviously… blatantly false, as we can attest from this list!
However, I’m going to cut Po some slack – the site was last updated in 2015, long before the likes of Quinn and Dipsea entered the market. And for that reason alone, it’s nice to get an old-school sample of what audio porn sounded like before the mainstream boom. This platform was actually way ahead of its time!
All in, Listen to Po offers a bundle of sex audio files totalling five hours of sonic pleasure.
It’s a mixed bag of content: you’ve got 110 individual tracks for a single one-time payment of $5.
The quality of the content has been surpassed by its rivals – in length, storytelling and (particularly) production quality – but if you want to sample one of the earliest commercial audio porn sites – Po is still worth a listen.
Girl On The Net
https://www.girlonthenet.com/audio-porn/
A blog site by a British woman who wants to break the stigma of shame around women’s sexuality, Girl on the Net features some great audio porn as well as intelligent and well thought out guest blogs, erotic stories and feature pieces.
The archive of audio porn is satisfyingly diverse and covers titles such as:
- ‘I’ve had a hard day/ Fuck my face’
- ‘By the time my coffee is cold, he’ll have fucked her’
- ‘The first spanking I ever had’
- ‘Massive dildo orgy; fucked with huge four cocks’.
There is something about that English accent accompanying these files which makes them even more naughty and our host certainly delivers on the steam factor.
There are over 100 files you can listen to for free.
What are your fave sources of audio porn and erotica?
Let us know if we’ve missed your go-to source…
