So you’re stuck at home! It feels like the world is collapsing. Everywhere is closed: theaters, bars, gyms, and even restaurants. Concerts and festivals and large gatherings have been postponed. Every major sport has been canceled or is on hiatus. Welcome to 2020.
What are you supposed to do with all this privacy and time on your hands? Are you feeling a little stir crazy? Maybe you’re beginning to get cabin fever? Masturbation and sexual intimacy have been proven to have many physical and mental health benefits. Ejaculation increases cortisol, which helps with your immune system. It also releases dopamine and oxytocin, which boost and elevate your mood and mental well-being. It is a proven stress reliever. It aids in getting a better night’s sleep. It has been shown to relieve menstrual cramps and decrease the chances of UTIs in women, and can lower the risk of prostate cancer in men. So it could be said that it is actually reckless to not be masturbating regularly while practicing social distancing.
Luckily, HotMovies is here to help you maintain your physical health and your sanity. We have over 239,000 movies at the time of writing this, and we have clips for all tastes: from the very vanilla to the extreme, from romantic to raunchy. It is virtually impossible to not be able to find something on our site to stroke or strum to. And our library, the largest of adult videos online, essentially guarantees that you’ll never run out of fap fodder—no matter how long you are cooped up in your place. So we’ve put together this little guide on how best to use and enjoy HotMovies.
Ways To Watch: Computer, Mobile, Tablet
HotMovies can be viewed using your desktop and laptop pretty damn easily. There isn’t really any extra instruction to give here. If you have a computer, you can watch HotMovies. If you have a mobile device or tablet, our site has a mobile-responsive design that makes it just as easy to navigate and watch on-the-go (for instance, if your whole family is stuck at home with you and you need to watch from the comfort of a secluded room). All our features and functions work using a mobile device.
Ways To Watch: Television Mirroring/Screencasting
Did you know you can get HotMovies to work on your television? That’s right! You can make the most of your big flatscreen to rub one out. If you have a more modern computer, chances are you have an HDMI port right on the tower or in your laptop. If that’s the case, just run an HDMI cable from your device to your television and select the corresponding input on your TV.
If you don’t want to go hooking up cables, you can still get images from the little screen to the big screen. There are several smart TVs from major brands like LG, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Vizio (and more) that offer the option to do something called screen-mirroring. It’s relatively easy to set up, and this will allow you to send video from a computer or mobile device to a television wirelessly. Additionally, many devices such as Google’s Chromecast, Amazon’s Fire TV (or Fire TV Stick), and countless other Android-based streaming boxes offer a mirroring or “casting” option.
The simplest way to cast or mirror your screen is to be using Google’s Chrome internet browser (which is available for free). Chrome is available on both computers and mobile devices, including Apple products like iPhone and Macbook. Unfortunately, casting from Chrome isn’t available on mobile browsers. If using a desktop/laptop browser version of Chrome, you will notice three vertical dots just below the ‘X’ that would close your browser window. Click that and go to “Cast.” From there it will present you with options of what to cast and where to send it to (should you have multiple devices capable of receiving). You can even make casting simpler by right-clicking on the cast icon (it looks like a box with a series of waves coming from the lower left corner) and selecting “Always Show Icon.” If that all sounds confusing and you’re a visual learner, there is a pretty solid YouTube tutorial here that shows you the steps.
Casting or mirroring from a mobile device is pretty simple as well, though different smart TVs and different phones will have different setups. Generally, they all follow in roughly the same way as this video tutorial here.
Another option, if you have a Google Chromecast (or want to pick one up, as they sell online for a reasonable $35 from all major retailers and Google, directly… or $69 for the 4K-streaming Chromecast Ultra), is to download the Google Home app (also available for iPhone). Once you set up your Chromecast in the app, it’s as simple as clicking on the Chromecast in the app, and selecting “Cast My Screen.”
Mirroring from an iPhone will either require a Chromecast with the Google Home App, an Apple TV (which cost $149 – $179), or an Amazon Fire TV/Fire TV Stick and a third-party AirPlay casting app on the Amazon device.
Three things to note about mirroring:
First, the quality and resolution won’t be quite as good as it would from casting through Chrome. Chrome optimizes the video for casting… so basically, it takes the video and then transfers the video to the TV (while screen mirroring just takes your whole phone screen and pops it onto your TV).
Second, since mirroring your phone takes everything on your phone and displays it on the TV, please make sure if you’re watching HotMovies with others that there isn’t anything on your phone screen when you mirror it that you wouldn’t want them seeing (but if you’re watching porn with those people you’re probably ok with them seeing most things).
Lastly, we know that there are some sites out there like YouTube that have a built-in casting button. We’re not there yet, but it’s in the works.
Ways To Watch: Roku
One of the pioneers in the streaming revolution is still a very strong and affordable option. Roku made a name for themselves by being one of the first media player boxes to stream Netflix to your television. If you don’t already have one but want to consider one, there are a ton of different options for you. Standard players and sticks come in multiple iterations ranging from $30 on up to $100. Some support 4K, some have the option of sticking headphones directly into your Roku remote for silent viewing. There is a soundbar available with Roku built in. Additionally there are Roku TVs with the system native to the television.
Roku technically has a no adult entertainment policy, but there is a “wink-wink” workaround. With that in mind, HotMovies was one of the first adult services to create our own Roku channel (they’re called channels, but think of them like apps). Instructions on how to add the HotMovies channel to your Roku can be found here (https://www.hotmovies.com/Roku/roku_channel.php). Afraid your family or S.O. will find the channel in your lineup? We have “discreet” versions of the channels that disguises them on your feed as something nobody will want to click on, like “Inventory Management” or “Budgets & Finances.”
Pro Tip: Search And Destroy (Yourself)
We’ve got a really big library. Like, really, really big—luckily we have several ways of getting around. Know the movie you’re looking for precisely? Go to the search bar, change the dropdown to search just by title, and begin typing it in. Auto-suggestions will help you along the way because sometimes titles are written a little differently from site to site. You can also change the direct input search bar to scan for stars or studios. If you keep it as “any,” it will pick up on everything from titles, to star names, to keywords in the movie descriptions and serve it all to you in order of relevancy.
If you’d prefer to browse some more, the Movies dropdown to the right of the search box is a great catch-all resource. Click it and a menu opens up that allows you to then discover movies based on several other options like director, year, and series. It gives you easy access to “New Releases” (a curated selection of our most recent additions from this year), “Recently Added” (a catch-all for every studio and year as it’s added to the site, even if it’s a niche genre), “Featured” (a much more carefully curated selection of relatively recent movies), and “Most Popular” pages. There are a number of other options that I recommend you explore for yourself if you have the time– which you probably do.
Pro Tip: Browse Away
Go to the Stars dropdown and you can browse performers by first name (and get a few staff recommendations along the way). Go to the Categories dropdown and you can get a full tree of our categories that will let you jump to pages and pages of movies that fit the category of your dreams: be it cameltoe or domination instructional or movies set in Seattle.
Go to the Studios dropdown and you’ll see a few lists of studios that are either popular or up-and-coming. You can then browse through studios by letter (with a featured studio and a random one from each highlighted).
Pro Tip: Going Granular
If you have a really specific itch that you need to scratch or you’re trying to find a specific clip that you remember but can’t recall the title of, go try our Advanced Clip Search. It can be found in a number of places on the site, but the easiest is to click the Clips dropdown from any page on the site and click on Clip Search. From there, you’ll be given a number of options to narrow down the number of clips that fit your criteria. We have well over a million, so you’ll need to trim it down some.
Remember that you can always narrow the scope by adding one or multiple of your favorite stars (but if you add more than one name, it will only pick up clips where they perform together) or a studio. As the options limit themselves, they will become unselectable, so you will never wind up with a 0 results search in the clips.
Pro Tip: Lady Luck
Sometimes you’ll just want to mix things up. When you’re stuck at home, you might find yourself craving something not normally on your menu. How to go about it? Well, with our “I’m Feeling Lucky” option (which can easily be opened from the Movies dropdown menu)… it’s like turning our whole site into a nudie snowglobe. We just recently did a Writers’ Roundup detailing some of the hits and misses from this scattershot approach. It’s a great game to play! Make it your own personal cum challenge! And honestly, it provides you with a minimum of 12 options at a time, so you’re likely to hit on something intriguing pretty quickly.
Pro Tip: The Spotlight You Should Search For
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Doing The Deed: Watching Your Movies
So we made our bones as a pay-per-minute company. Buy a package of minutes, and spend them however you like; only technically spending money for what it is that you’re watching. Don’t want to buy minutes? Or maybe you want to watch the same movie over and over without worrying about spending too many minutes? Nearly every movie is available for a streaming rental for a reasonable amount of time.
Want to enjoy the movie forever? Most movies are available for a little more as a lifetime streaming option. And nearly just as many movies are available for both lifetime streaming and download for just a smidge more money.
Not interested in the whole movie, and just want a clip? You can purchase the scene and have it in your library forever. You can even use your minutes to buy the clips. Not a bad deal, huh?
Doing The Deed: Studio Rentals
Here’s something only expert level HotMovies users are in on. We have whole studios available for an all-you-can-eat price. Click on the Movies dropdown and go to Studio Rentals. From there, you’ll be given a list of studios who have made themselves available to have every single title of theirs streamed for as much as you want for one low price. 7 day and 30 day options are available for almost every studio offering a rental. If you are on a budget and love what a certain studio has to offer (or you want to do a deep dive) then look no further than the Studio Rental. Most of the options have hundreds or even thousands of titles available.
The Final Frontier: Virtual Reality
You’ve got plenty of time. Nobody is coming around. What better occasion to experiment with strapping a headset on and seeing XXX action all around you?! We have instructions on how to view the movies on the site. We have also previously reviewed the experience of watching a VR title, so you have a better idea of what you’re getting yourself into.
So there you have it! The magical, fap-tastical world of HotMovies! Enjoy, and stock up on some lotion!
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