diff --git a/tests/integration/aiohttp_utils.py b/tests/integration/aiohttp_utils.py
index 195e5eb..5b77fae 100644
--- a/tests/integration/aiohttp_utils.py
+++ b/tests/integration/aiohttp_utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 import asyncio
+import aiohttp
 
 
 @asyncio.coroutine
-def aiohttp_request(session, method, url, as_text, **kwargs):
-    response = yield from session.request(method, url, **kwargs)  # NOQA: E999
-    return response, (yield from response.text()) if as_text else (yield from response.json())  # NOQA: E999
+def aiohttp_request(loop, method, url, as_text, **kwargs):
+    with aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=loop) as session:
+        response = yield from session.request(method, url, **kwargs)  # NOQA: E999
+        if as_text:
+            content = yield from response.text()  # NOQA: E999
+        else:
+            content = yield from response.json()  # NOQA: E999
+        return response, content
diff --git a/tests/integration/async_def.py b/tests/integration/async_def.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96cab1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/async_def.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import aiohttp
+import pytest
+import vcr
+
+
+@vcr.use_cassette()
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_http():  # noqa: E999
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
+        url = 'https://httpbin.org/get'
+        params = {'ham': 'spam'}
+        resp = await session.get(url, params=params)  # noqa: E999
+        assert (await resp.json())['args'] == {'ham': 'spam'}  # noqa: E999
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_aiohttp.py b/tests/integration/test_aiohttp.py
index 82957ff..280be3a 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_aiohttp.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_aiohttp.py
@@ -1,28 +1,40 @@
 import pytest
 aiohttp = pytest.importorskip("aiohttp")
 
-import asyncio  # NOQA
-import sys  # NOQA
+import asyncio  # noqa: E402
+import contextlib  # noqa: E402
 
-import aiohttp  # NOQA
-import pytest  # NOQA
-import vcr  # NOQA
+import pytest  # noqa: E402
+import vcr  # noqa: E402
 
-from .aiohttp_utils import aiohttp_request  # NOQA
+from .aiohttp_utils import aiohttp_request  # noqa: E402
+
+try:
+    from .async_def import test_http  # noqa: F401
+except SyntaxError:
+    pass
+
+
+def run_in_loop(fn):
+    with contextlib.closing(asyncio.new_event_loop()) as loop:
+        asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
+        task = loop.create_task(fn(loop))
+        return loop.run_until_complete(task)
+
+
+def request(method, url, as_text=True, **kwargs):
+    def run(loop):
+        return aiohttp_request(loop, method, url, as_text, **kwargs)
+
+    return run_in_loop(run)
 
 
 def get(url, as_text=True, **kwargs):
-    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-    with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
-        task = loop.create_task(aiohttp_request(session, 'GET', url, as_text, **kwargs))
-        return loop.run_until_complete(task)
+    return request('GET', url, as_text, **kwargs)
 
 
 def post(url, as_text=True, **kwargs):
-    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
-    with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
-        task = loop.create_task(aiohttp_request(session, 'POST', url, as_text, **kwargs))
-        return loop.run_until_complete(task)
+    return request('POST', url, as_text, **kwargs)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=["https", "http"])
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_http b/tests/integration/test_http
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..522363b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/test_http
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+interactions:
+- request:
+    body: null
+    headers: {}
+    method: GET
+    uri: https://httpbin.org/get?ham=spam
+  response:
+    body: {string: "{\n  \"args\": {\n    \"ham\": \"spam\"\n  }, \n  \"headers\"\
+        : {\n    \"Accept\": \"*/*\", \n    \"Accept-Encoding\": \"gzip, deflate\"\
+        , \n    \"Connection\": \"close\", \n    \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \n   \
+        \ \"User-Agent\": \"Python/3.5 aiohttp/2.0.1\"\n  }, \n  \"origin\": \"213.86.221.35\"\
+        , \n  \"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/get?ham=spam\"\n}\n"}
+    headers: {Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: 'true', Access-Control-Allow-Origin: '*',
+      Connection: keep-alive, Content-Length: '299', Content-Type: application/json,
+      Date: 'Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:08:29 GMT', Server: gunicorn/19.7.1, Via: 1.1 vegur}
+    status: {code: 200, message: OK}
+    url: !!python/object/new:yarl.URL
+      state: !!python/tuple
+      - !!python/object/new:urllib.parse.SplitResult [https, httpbin.org, /get, ham=spam,
+        '']
+      - false
+version: 1
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index fa60b54..250ef18 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ deps =
     boto: boto
     boto3: boto3
     aiohttp: aiohttp
+    aiohttp: pytest-asyncio
 
 [flake8]
 max_line_length = 110
diff --git a/vcr/_handle_coroutine.py b/vcr/_handle_coroutine.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b20be6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vcr/_handle_coroutine.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import asyncio
+
+
+@asyncio.coroutine
+def handle_coroutine(vcr, fn):
+    with vcr as cassette:
+        return (yield from fn(cassette))  # noqa: E999
diff --git a/vcr/cassette.py b/vcr/cassette.py
index c508602..fc3f0fa 100644
--- a/vcr/cassette.py
+++ b/vcr/cassette.py
@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ from .serializers import yamlserializer
 from .persisters.filesystem import FilesystemPersister
 from .util import partition_dict
 
+try:
+    from asyncio import iscoroutinefunction
+    from ._handle_coroutine import handle_coroutine
+except ImportError:
+    def iscoroutinefunction(*args, **kwargs):
+        return False
+
+    def handle_coroutine(*args, **kwags):
+        raise NotImplementedError('Not implemented on Python 2')
+
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -96,18 +106,25 @@ class CassetteContextDecorator(object):
         )
 
     def _execute_function(self, function, args, kwargs):
-        if inspect.isgeneratorfunction(function):
-            handler = self._handle_coroutine
-        else:
-            handler = self._handle_function
-        return handler(function, args, kwargs)
+        def handle_function(cassette):
+            if cassette.inject:
+                return function(cassette, *args, **kwargs)
+            else:
+                return function(*args, **kwargs)
 
-    def _handle_coroutine(self, function, args, kwargs):
-        """Wraps a coroutine so that we're inside the cassette context for the
-        duration of the coroutine.
+        if iscoroutinefunction(function):
+            return handle_coroutine(vcr=self, fn=handle_function)
+        if inspect.isgeneratorfunction(function):
+            return self._handle_generator(fn=handle_function)
+
+        return self._handle_function(fn=handle_function)
+
+    def _handle_generator(self, fn):
+        """Wraps a generator so that we're inside the cassette context for the
+        duration of the generator.
         """
         with self as cassette:
-            coroutine = self.__handle_function(cassette, function, args, kwargs)
+            coroutine = fn(cassette)
             # We don't need to catch StopIteration. The caller (Tornado's
             # gen.coroutine, for example) will handle that.
             to_yield = next(coroutine)
@@ -119,15 +136,9 @@ class CassetteContextDecorator(object):
                 else:
                     to_yield = coroutine.send(to_send)
 
-    def __handle_function(self, cassette, function, args, kwargs):
-        if cassette.inject:
-            return function(cassette, *args, **kwargs)
-        else:
-            return function(*args, **kwargs)
-
-    def _handle_function(self, function, args, kwargs):
+    def _handle_function(self, fn):
         with self as cassette:
-            return self.__handle_function(cassette, function, args, kwargs)
+            return fn(cassette)
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_function_name(function):