Meanings
- slanguncountableAudio content intended to elicit the autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR).
Hundreds of new ASMR YouTube videos are created daily, expanding upon an already seemingly endless library of soothing, nonsexual whisper porn.
2022 February 27, Andrea Rice, “ASMR: Why Certain Sounds Soothe Your Mind”, in Psych Central2 more examples
Barrat and Davis also found that several 'whisper porn' lovers had synesthesia (the neurological phenomenon commonly associated with seeing numbers or words as colours), leading them to believe that rather than simply being relaxing, 'ASMR seems to be a very multisensory experience'.
2015 April 15, “Science explains 'Whisper Porn' and it is not what you think”, in Deccan ChronicleThat was this morning and she'd spent the rest of the day making a video for her YouTube channel, one where she whispered while she brushed Mia's hair and gave it a trim. (She had to keep re-doing it because Mia couldn't stop laughing about her "whisper porn side hustle.")
2022, Kate Meader, edited by Kristi Yanta, Jock Wanted: A Fake Relationship Hockey Romance (Rookie Rebels), →ISBN, unnumbered page
Origin
The general ASMR sense is from whisper + porn (“material presenting something desirable in a sensational manner”). The erotic ASMR sense is from whisper + porn (“pornography”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
whisper porn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whisper%20porn
“whisper porn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whisper%20porn. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whisper porn,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whisper%20porn.
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