In real life, Amy has no real twin, but the imagery is representative of the subgenre’s fixation on sexual fantasies: Satisfaction must be met. By virtue of skillful editing, we see and hear double, caught in a hypnotic aural trance. In the video, ASMR Amy-one of the more popular ASMRists, as they are known-role-plays the part of twin sisters. This is how I discovered the strange wonderland of ASMR erotica. In the instances when I found myself being made woozy by temptation, when the appetite for another person’s touch became red and palpable, I would seek out an unconventional form of self-pleasure that didn’t involve the physical act of sex. For various reasons, I’ve recently taken on a no-sex mandate, the beginning of a months-long exercise in mastering my impulses, but anyone with blood running in their veins knows the body and mind are tenacious: They want what they want.
Doing so, I was told, would help unlock the euphoria I was in search of. To let my imagination drift, I lowered the sound levels and closed my eyes. Not long ago, I opened my laptop, dimmed the lights in my room, and clicked play on the YouTube video “ASMR Ear Eating Twins”.
