I video and photo for couples (etc) in and around Massachusetts and can tell you that most of the sessions/scenes I've shot where the woman is NOT wearing her ring simply don't have the same "cuckold/hotwife/etc" look/feel/theme to them as the ones with chicks who do wear their ring(s)....
Some of the best and hottest ones I've shot also had hubby standing beside the bed (or kneeling or sitting on bed etc) with his ring showing (signifying that he's the "husband watching"), while wife has HER ring clearly exposed for the world to see...
It's surely a huge turn on for whomever is in the video and it's definitely a turn on for us, especially my wife, when we/she sees "another wife like me" getting reamed and having that "Oh my God" look on her face as BBC sends her to *******. My wife (who knows/is aware that I've shot these videos, and approves of it) has never experienced BBC, fantasizes about it constantly, and maybe its because cuz she's nervous about it that these shots/scenes/pictures/etc of married white women showing their ring while being BBC fucked lends some sort of "psychological validation" to her fantasies, etc?
As I've mentioned previously on this site, she's a "good Roman Catholic Italian girl" who was raised to be faithful and was VERY SHY ABOUT ADMITTING her fantasy for black men (and their huge cocks, which make mine look like its even smaller than it is LOL).
And I strongly believe that it was the video and photos she watched and was shown (by ME
) with white married women taking huge BBC that allowed her to "open up" to me about her fantasy, desires, kink, etc... Without the rings on the women, it probably, psychologically for her, would just seem like some single girl/woman getting fucked by a black guy. I'm fairly certain that the rings add "validation" to her (our LOL) fantasy..
It's also strangely ironic that we've "grown" over the years to a point where this "good Italian girl" who wouldn't even admit to thinking about another guy(s) early in our relationship is now so comfortable and assured in our marriage that she can admit to fantasizing about being "that married woman with the wedding ring on - and THAT look of DEEP PLEASURE on her face - and admit to me that yes, she thinks about it constantly... (but has always been afraid to do it LOL).
And to have her be aware that my part-time gig involves video recording and photographing people getting it on is probably one of the bigger, hotter "validations" of our secure marriage. Yes, she sometimes asks me about the things I've seen and recorded, but only in a "general curiosity" moment, never asks me to save or show her any of my work (which I wouldn't do without my clients permission, although most probably know well that a wife will see/know/ask about etc everything... But my wife has always kept this a private little "secret" of ours (I'll sometimes post a non-facial pic of her, etc) but I keep her identity secret at all times (she's VERY WELL KNOWN in our area, very many friends, huge family etc so we surely need to remain as "private" as possible about this side of our relationship).
Oh well. We still - STILL - love each other immensely. 30 years and counting! And knowing her fantasy/fantasies just makes our marriage even stronger.