When it comes to traditional ASMR, every view, take or comment comes with the same question: is this sexual? Should I be turned on? ASMRotica makes it easy: yes.
2018, Emily O'Connor, "Becoming Video: Indeterminacy, Intimacy, Image", thesis submitted to the University of New South Wales, pages 19-20:
Its connotation with sexual arousal has been disputed in the community (possibly in part because the videos are used as parental aids in attention-focusing for children) though others have embraced it, creating a sub-genre called ASMRotica which is designed specifically for sexual arousal.
2019, Mark Andrew Choi, "Sucks to your ASMR", The Arrow (Westlake High School, Westlake, CA), 12 February 2019, page 16:
However, this couldn't be further from the truth, and ASMRotica makes up only a tiny piece of the ASMR community.
2019, Maria Isabel Bode, "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) as a marketing tool: An examination of the online phenomenon’s potential in the promotion mix of slow tourism destinations", thesis submitted to The City University of Applied Sciences, page 25:
Where mainstream ASMRtists don’t appreciate comments that refer to sexuality in any way, the ASMRotica subgenre welcomes these kind of viewers (Lindsay 2015: online).
2020, Joe Molander, "More ASMR?", The Courier (Newcastle University), 16 March 2020, page 13:
Although a dedicated erotic faction does exist within the community, creating what its members call 'ASMRotica', creators insist that the genre has more to it than that.
2020, Dzenana Vucic, "Digital intimacy and the aestheticisation of sound", Meanjin, March 2020:
ASMRotica goes even further: you can find YouTube videos of women giving what are essentially fantasy gobbies, […]
