87% Of Queer Ladies Are Into Porn or Erotica, But Not The Whole Thing Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Best Lesbian Sex Study
, available to all “lady-types which sleep with lady-types.” We garnered over 8,566 complete replies (89% which were from men and women within years of 18 and 36) and from now on we are sharing the outcome to you, bit by bit. Previously:

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Exactly How Much Smut Would Queer Females Digest?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center report on porn-viewing behaviors associated with American individuals
shared that the United states individuals are not appearing to need to talk to the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing habits: just 25per cent of men and 8% of women who view online video fessed around watching adult online videos. This seems very improbable, but other quotes aren’t much higher —

Psychology Nowadays

claims that their “best estimate”
is the fact that “approximately 8percent and 20% of women on line check out porno web sites with any regularity.” An
Australian Study of health insurance and Relationships in 2014
discovered 20percent of females had looked at pornography within the last year. It doesn’t truly complement with data gathered by the net itself,
like this
12per cent of websites on the internet tend to be adult and 40 million People in the us regularly visit pornography internet sites. Or any particular one 3rd of sex sites people are ladies and 35percent of all internet packages tend to be about pornography.

Dazed Digital, in contrast, did a much bigger and revelatory study of 10,500 women and men in 114 nations. They
developed larger numbers
:

… while one fourth of respondents never view pornography, 59percent see it someone to five times per week, and 16% six or higher instances. Both males and females like it – around three-out of 5 watch it at least once weekly, no matter what gender. Sections happen at extremes of usage: 90% of individuals who never view pornography tend to be ladies, while 90percent of people that watch grot over 11 occasions a week are males. Place another way, some ladies engage one or more times per week, merely 4% do so six or even more occasions a week, compared with 60percent of males who see it just about any time or maybe more.

When we asked the survey-takers “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in any kind?”, 87per cent of the who answered the question answered for the affirmative. So already we are revealing figures which are extraordinarily more than earlier studies show. Of these just who take in porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent did so weekly or more. But not all of that is actually old-fashioned porno.

What sort of smut perform queer ladies consume?

Dazed Digital unearthed that
“the average straight-identifying woman is actually far more likely to enjoy girl-on-girl than the typical straight man is to watch boy-on-boy.” They discovered “direct women’s use of lesbian porno outstrips men’s room: just gay or bisexual women view even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found similar figures
. Those two the many surveys having lit up the less-than-direct relationship women of most orientations have actually using porn they watch towards kind of intercourse they actually have (or want to have).

A report throughout the porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian researchers found the vast majority of females “didn’t care for girl-on-girl porn, stating they discovered the movies impractical and clearly created by as well as for straight men. Instead, lots of lesbians tend to be attracted to sensual films depicting two guys setting it up on.” The researchers, in accordance with other study on this subject, affirmed that “women tend to have much more sensual plasticity than guys — this is certainly, they may be turned on by a wider different things.”

Inside our study, we made an important difference between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porno — the sort created by queer women for queer ladies (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Package
) while the sort made by directly individuals for straight individuals (e.g., pretty much everything else). We found the previous had been a lot more popular compared to second — and, moreover, a lot of queer ladies favor enjoying straight porno or gay male porn over lesbian porno made by/for directly folks.

The info we’re gonna speak about now could be garnered from the 87.05per cent of respondents whom responded “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in any form?” The 12.95per cent just who responded “no” are not asked questions about particular porn habits. The 2,471 humans whom skipped issue therefore discovered on their own from the “what method of pornography do you like” web page simply because they did not say “no,” which may’ve caused the review to automatically skip that page, are not included, since they are mystical unicorns with fears, dreams and needs beyond my personal capabilities to discern. By their own solutions from the porn-liking page, several would in fact consume smut but simply didn’t feel responding to the last concern, therefore it is not secure to state that bypassing the question = answering “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they didn’t answer no. However they didn’t answer yes!

. It is not safe to state anything about them anyway, therefore we’re only gonna pluck them out from the team completely your reason for this evaluation. Therefore, go with a whole grain of salt, but, despite, these numbers carry out fit more or less perfectly with solutions to earlier in the day required questions about porn, therefore maybe a little whole grain of salt.

The information below originates from the

5,277 respondents exactly who helpfully reacted “yes” for the concern “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any form?”

Therefore why don’t we talk about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It’s unsurprising that erotica reading is really so common amongst queer women for some factors. Firstly: since it is at this time more popular than in the past amongst women in basic. Indeed,
a 2012 Uk review by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 per cent of women having look over a minumum of one sexual guide, and 43 percent said they wanted checking out about gender to presenting it. That review had been empowered by

50 Tones of Grey

, of course, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into among best-selling guides of them all.

This gives us to the second cause these numbers tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially took off as a way for enthusiasts (mainly ladies) to explore male/male

Superstar Trek

pairings the show itself would not allow, and queer ladies have flocked in droves perform some genre. And checking out male/male pairings, queer females utilize fanfic to
inform stories concerning the female/female pairings
exactly who link intimately onscreen for a price of
seldom
to
never ever
.

For the 200 statements remaining into the unrestricted field because of this concern, about 50 % were making certain We understood that by “erotica” they meant “fan fiction.” Listed here is a sampling of some of those solutions:

• By “erotica” after all fanfiction, very nearly exclusively
• Sexual comics are now actually the best, but I found myselfn’t certain in which they fit. They are usually queer however constantly.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards number
• Why don’t we be genuine, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its homosexual lady fanfiction smut. If viewing, it really is homosexual guys getting awesome enthusiastic with one another.
• It is all drilling fanfiction and I am addicted, literally there were times during my life in which i might read specific gay fanfic for over four hours each day.

Online Video

The structure of right and gay male porno most popular amongst queer females is on the net video. Particularly if you examine lesbians as an isolated team, it’s really the only format of erotica/smut/porn that inspires lots of followers amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography using the internet, but only 25percent of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42% of bisexuals study directly erotica online. Although 38% of lesbians examine queer erotic images online, only 9per cent at directly erotic imagery online, when compared with 22% of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From this point forward I’ll consider “lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer individuals” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porno made by/for direct folks”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Are the amounts of directly pornography watchers so high because thus a lot of study participants never fundamentally recognize to be entirely attracted to ladies? Type of, but that’s perhaps not the entire story. Normally those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians whom observe online video view Q4Q porno at almost similar rates, which range from 66per cent – 67%.
• Bisexuals include likely to watch straight porno — 54% ones carry out, when compared with 32per cent of queers and 41percent of lesbians. They are additionally the most likely to watch Q4S pornography — 38% of them do, versus 33% of queers and 29percent of lesbians.
• Queers which watch online video are the almost certainly to view gay male porn — 36% ones perform, versus around 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

Thus, although bisexual females are far more inclined to watch right pornography than lesbians are, they can be not truly the only types enjoying it. Controversial intercourse advice columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his understanding of which watches what type of pornography offers just up to now,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw up my cool and organized porn world.” Sorry not sorry, Dan!

I think its pretty public knowledge precisely why queer females dislike fake lesbian porno, but, fleetingly: although not most of the women who got our sex study volunteered these details independently, there is no lack of lesbians on the web speaking about their inclination for right or homosexual male porn (
or writers finding responses regarding it
) providing explanations want:

• “I’ve found lesbian pornography is normally targeted for straight men and they’re perhaps not stimulating. We somehow favor right porn.”
• “Lesbian porno is very phony and exactly how very long a lot of them have long fingernails UGH! as a whole i mostly observe directly porno. Now if its directly porn I simply concentrate on the female. It would possibly get me personally heading constantly.”
• “Lesbian porn is far too tacky for my situation and thus far from the truth that I’ve found it hard to view. Perhaps not saying straight porno is more actual but not often quite as tacky.”
• “while i favor (straight pornography) to lesbian porn, i am always looking at the girl heading “she’s a great celebrity. Permitting him think this woman is enjoying it.  And lesbian porn features men composed all over it; it may seem like the actresses don’t want to do what they’re performing.”

Some prices from our own survey-takers:

• We generally like excess fat porno. If that ended up being more straightforward to find making for and by queers, i’d enjoy that, however it scarcely prevails.
• Really don’t view lesbian porn since I have could only find the misogynist videos created for direct men, which I discover offensive.
• I enjoy enjoy a girl obtaining facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

Very, that apart, I’m keen on speaking about the reason why 53% of all of the women that understand and watch real queer porn

in addition

view direct porn and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified women watch directly pornography. See, nothing drives myself peanuts faster than someone declaring that a “real lesbian” wouldn’t get turned on by directly porno — this is certainly COMPLETE BANANAS. Although many queer ladies who observe direct porn tend to be drawn to males and want to sleep together, quite a few are not, and a female’s inclination for right porno must not cast any question on the woman stated homosexuality.

I cross-checked some facets, such as age, employment status, attraction for kink, sexual experience and gender speech, to see if any of those had a direct effect on this industry of inclination and absolutely nothing stood . Consequently, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl pornography prices cash and complimentary girl-on-girl porno sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer ladies for queer ladies often requires cost (whilst should!). Not everybody are able it, wants to put money into it, or feels comfy performing this, additionally the choice — the sort of “lesbian” porn discovered for free on websites like PornHub and RedTube — is inadequate, to say the least. Just what exactly’s left? Directly pornography! Gay male porn!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Versatile:
  
  As mentioned earlier on this page, ladies react sexually to any or all sorts of issues that tend to be not related to their sexual orientation. Many of us whom prefer women however get turned-on by direct pornography. Who knows precisely why. It really is exactly what it is!
• 
  Normative charm criteria:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography tends to feature queers with a number of human anatomy kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts and so on. That’s part of what is actually therefore wonderful about any of it — not for everyone. Some queers like pornography performers which look like porno performers without porn stars who seem like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as get away:
  
  Many sex sites consumers enjoy porn that gives an escape off their actual intercourse lives, or usage pornography to understand more about fantasies they’ve no aspire to check out in real life. Often watching real queers play down more direct or taboo fantasies (instance non-consent) simply strikes too near home.
• 
  Range:
  
  Absolutely a wider assortment of right porno and gay male porn on the market for assorted fetishes or kinks individuals may be into. There’s also much more hardcore directly porn nowadays, so when queers perform watch directly pornography, it is commonly explicit — 33percent of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals see hardcore directly porn, but only 12% of lesbians and 24% of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Imagining themselves as the guy:
  
  This will be anecdotal, but i have heard numerous queer ladies declare that they imagine on their own once the guy while watching directly porn. Or they prefer enjoying pornography in which women humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Numerous may have classified movies of females masturbating (which emerged several times for the remarks) as “direct pornography.”
• 
  Absolutely a lot more of it out truth be told there and it is more straightforward to get a hold of.
  

To conclude, ladies are great animals with the capacity of getting turned-on by many different video porno and in case females ran society there’d be much more research about this.

Ultimately, I’d exactly like to talk about some of the reviews in the “what kind of pornography do you really watch” section to give you the summary of what individuals wished you to definitely understand these were into:

• Where’s the selection for tentacle porno? And for intercourse devices heading walnuts and offering their own woman inventors limitless sexual climaxes? I’m baffled (about lots of things).
• I observe the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the videos. because i’m getting over my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting porn.
• Genuinely my fave is actually gender views from lesbian shows, maybe not real Porn pornography. Undecided just how to classify that above. I never see real porn.
• Machines/dildo machines
• House films
• Lesbian gifs, thanks a lot tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is actually great
• Book in-car in order to get bdsm situation ideas, not to exit
• Erotic comics are now my personal favorite, but I found myselfn’t yes where they can fit. They’re usually queer yet not constantly. I read on the internet and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• We mostly check solo pics and drawings of females. You will find not a clue who makes them.

How Much Cash Smut/Erotica/Porn Would You Eat?

1.9per cent of the whole smut-consuming party uses their particular smut several times daily. 3.6% indulge one a day, 24.6percent multiple times a week, 11.7percent once weekly, 27.5percent several times per month, 12.3% monthly, 16.3% several times per year, and a little over two percent eat it less than that.

With the intention that’s 5.5percent viewing pornography every day, which’s more than the 3.8% of females Cosmopolitan
found whenever they surveyed 4,000 women
(93% of which had been heterosexual) about their porn-watching practices. In addition they found 32.5percent of males seeing porn regarding the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just inquiring about using the internet pornography videos, our very own get to was actually larger — we incorporated erotica and sexual images.

What facets influence how many times you consume smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we have a look at numerous commitment and sexual scenarios.

Clearly absolutely a fairly powerful correlation between how frequently you eat smut and just how typically you are sex. These numbers do claim that co-habitation reduces frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests why these partners aren’t taking in porn collectively.

There is a direct commitment between eating smut/erotica/porn and frequency of genital stimulation — over 90 % of these who masturbate multiple times a week or more eat smut, when compared to a bit over 50 % of these which masturbate around one time per year.

Of entire team — all 8,566 of you — 55.3% said porno is part of the way you frequently masturbate. 39.4per cent said similar of pornography.

In Conclusion

A lot of asked in feedback for informative data on in which they can discover queer porno made for queers. Let me make that happen for your family, because everybody contemplating queer porno deserves to feel along these lines commenter on
You Need Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, who published:

“we went to queerporn dot television and I am only seated right here sobbing because I’ve not witnessed pornography with people exactly who look like myself, which appear like individuals I would really shag, exactly who screw like i might fuck. It seems therefore genuine. We never ever discovered that I thought thus marginalized and objectified by mainstream porno, and today I feel authenticated. Like, it’s fine that We have sex the way I do because see, discover folks just like me personally.”

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Go forward and enjoy whatever form of smut you want to!