87percent Of Queer Women Are Into Porn or Erotica, However All Of It Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Best Lesbian Gender Survey
, open to all “lady-types exactly who sleep with lady-types.” We gained over 8,566 total reactions (89percent that were from people between the centuries of 18 and 36) and then we are sharing the results to you, little by little. Previously:

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How Much Cash Smut Carry Out Queer Girls Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing routines for the American folks
shared that US folks don’t seem to want to talk to the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing practices: only 25percent of males and 8per cent of females which watch online video fessed doing seeing adult online videos. This seems wildly unlikely, but other estimates are not a lot higher —

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states that their unique “best guess”
usually “somewhere within 8percent and 20per cent of women internet based see pornography websites with any consistency.” An
Australian Study of Health and affairs in 2014
found 20% of females had checked pornography in the last season. This does not actually complement with information harvested of the internet by itself,
that way
12per cent of web pages online tend to be pornographic and 40 million Americans regularly go to pornography web sites. Or that one third of sex sites watchers are ladies and 35per cent of all internet packages are pertaining to pornography.

Dazed online, conversely, performed a much bigger plus revelatory survey of 10,500 people in 114 countries. They
created higher figures
:

… while a quarter of respondents never ever see pornography, 59% watch it someone to 5 times each week, and 16per cent six or higher occasions. Men and women enjoy it – around three-out of five view it one or more times weekly, regardless of sex. Sections take place at the extremes of consumption: 90% of people that never ever view pornography are women, while 90% of individuals who view grot over 11 times weekly are guys. Put one other way, some women enjoy at least once per week, only 4percent do this six or more times a week, weighed against 60per cent of men who watch it just about any day or more.

Whenever we questioned our very own survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in every type?”, 87percent of these just who replied issue replied inside affirmative. Very already we’re revealing figures which happen to be extremely more than previous research has shown. Of the who eat porn/smut/erotica, 39percent performed therefore weekly or more. However all of that is old-fashioned porno.

What type of smut do queer females eat?

Dazed Digital found that
“the average straight-identifying lady is more expected to see girl-on-girl compared to the average straight guy is watch boy-on-boy.” They found “direct women’s use of lesbian porno outstrips men’s: merely gay or bisexual females observe more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found comparable numbers
. Both of these a number of numerous studies which have illuminated the less-than-direct relationship females of all of the orientations have actually making use of the pornography they see into style of sex they actually have (or want to have).

A study about porn-viewing practices of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found all the women “didn’t care for girl-on-girl porn, saying they found the flicks unrealistic and clearly produced by and for direct males. As an alternative, a lot of lesbians tend to be drawn to sensual flicks depicting two men getting it on.” The researchers, in accordance with some other research on this topic, affirmed that “women are apt to have a lot more sexual plasticity than males — this is certainly, they’re fired up by a wider different things.”

In our survey, we made a significant distinction between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porno — the sort produced by queer ladies for queer females (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Juicy Pink Package
) additionally the type produced by direct individuals for straight people (age.g., just about everything more). We discovered the previous was actually more popular than the latter — and, also, many queer ladies prefer seeing right pornography or homosexual male porno over lesbian porn made by/for directly men and women.

The information we’re gonna explore now could be garnered from the 87.05per cent of respondents which replied “yes” to “do you consumer porn/erotica/smut in almost any type?” The 12.95per cent exactly who replied “no” are not asked questions relating to certain porno behaviors. The 2,471 humans exactly who skipped issue and therefore found by themselves in the “what kind of pornography do you actually like” web page because they did not state “no,” which will’ve induced the survey to immediately miss that page, are not incorporated, because they are mysterious unicorns with worries, dreams and desires beyond my personal forces to detect. By their answers about porn-liking page, a lot of them carry out really digest smut but simply did not feel responding to the last question, so it is perhaps not safe to declare that skipping practical question = responding to “no.” I am talking about, for real:

they failed to answer no. Nonetheless they don’t answer yes!

. It isn’t safe to express any such thing about them at all, therefore we’re simply gonna pluck all of them outside of the team completely for the purposes of this evaluation. Therefore, go on it with a whole grain of salt, but, whatever, these figures do fit basically perfectly with answers to previous needed questions relating to pornography, very maybe a small grain of sodium.

The information below comes from the

5,277 respondents exactly who helpfully responded “yes” on concern “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?”

Therefore let us talk about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

Its unsurprising that erotica reading is really preferred amongst queer women for some explanations. Firstly: since it is presently a lot more popular than ever amongst women in general. In reality,
a 2012 Uk survey by Dottybingo.com
disclosed 91 per cent of women having browse one sexual guide, and 43 percent stated they desired reading about sex to presenting it. That survey had been stimulated by

50 Shades of Grey

, of course, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and became one of several popular guides ever.

This brings us to the second cause these numbers are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning became popular for enthusiasts (largely women) to explore male/male

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pairings the show itself would never enable, and queer ladies have flocked in droves do the style. Besides reading male/male pairings, queer ladies make use of fanfic to
inform stories concerning female/female pairings
which link sexually onscreen at a rate of
hardly ever
to
never
.

During the 200 reviews left from inside the unrestricted field for this concern, approximately half were making certain I knew that by “erotica” they suggested “fan fiction.” Listed here is a sampling of some of these answers:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, virtually solely
• Sexual comics are actually my personal favorite, but I happened to ben’t certain in which they can fit. They’re usually queer yet not usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards number
• Let’s end up being actual, it is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it is homosexual lady fanfiction smut. If viewing, it really is homosexual guys becoming very enthusiastic together.
• It’s all fucking fanfiction and I am addicted, practically there’s been instances within my existence where I would read direct gay fanfic for longer than four-hours every single day.

Online Video

The structure of direct and gay male porn most widely used amongst queer females is on the net movie. Especially if you view lesbians as a remote group, this really is the sole structure of erotica/smut/porn that encourages numerous enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography online, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42% of bisexuals study directly erotica on line. Although 38per cent of lesbians examine queer sensual images on line, only 9per cent at straight sensual images on the web, compared to 22per cent of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From here onward I’ll make reference to “lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer men and women” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porno made by/for straight individuals”  as “Q4S” porn.

Will be the numbers of direct porn watchers so high because so numerous review participants you should not always identify as actually solely keen on females? Kind of, but that is not the whole story. They’re those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians exactly who watch online video watch Q4Q pornography at almost identical costs, which range from 66per cent – 67%.
• Bisexuals would be the almost certainly to look at right pornography — 54% of these carry out, in comparison to 32% of queers and 41percent of lesbians. They are in addition the most likely to look at Q4S pornography — 38% of them perform, when compared to 33per cent of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers who see online video include more than likely to watch homosexual male pornography — 36per cent of them carry out, compared to around 32per cent for bisexuals and lesbians.

Thus, although bisexual females tend to be more inclined to look at directly porno than lesbians are, they’re not the only real people seeing it. Controversial sex information columnist Dan Savage admits that their comprehension of just who watches what sort of porn stretches merely to date,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my neat and orderly porno universe.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

I believe it is rather public knowledge exactly why queer females dislike phony lesbian porno, but, quickly: but not a lot of the ladies who got all of our intercourse study volunteered this info independently, there’s really no lack of lesbians using the internet speaking about their inclination for directly or gay male porn (
or authors looking solutions about this
) providing explanations want:

• “I’ve found lesbian porno is generally focused for directly men and they’re perhaps not stimulating. I somehow favor right pornography.”
• “Lesbian pornography merely thus phony and exactly how long some of them have long nails UGH! total i mainly view direct porn. Today if its directly porno I recently focus on the feminine. Could get me personally going like hell.”
• “Lesbian porn is far too tacky for me and not the truth that I have found it tough to look at. Not claiming straight porno is actually more actual but not often rather as desperate.”
• “Even though I like (directly porn) to lesbian porno, i am usually studying the woman going “she’s a beneficial actress. Enabling him imagine she is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian pornography has actually men authored all-around it; it just appears like the actresses should not do what they’re performing.”

Some quotes from our very own survey-takers:

• We generally like excess fat pornography. If that ended up being much easier to find making for by queers, i’d enjoy that, nonetheless it barely is available.
• I do not watch lesbian porno since I have can just only discover misogynist videos intended for directly males, that we select unpleasant.
• I like to watch a lady acquiring facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

So, that apart, i am keen on chatting about the reason why 53% of women who understand watching real queer pornography

in addition

watch straight porn and why 41per cent of lesbian-identified ladies view directly pornography. See, absolutely nothing pushes myself nuts quicker than someone declaring that a “real lesbian” won’t get turned on by directly porn — definitely OVERALL BANANAS. Although many queer women that see straight porn tend to be interested in males and would like to rest with these people, most of them aren’t, and a woman’s choice for direct porno shouldn’t throw any doubt on the woman stated homosexuality.

I cross-checked different aspects, such age, employment condition, affinity for kink, intimate knowledge and sex presentation, to find out if those had an impact on this field of preference and absolutely nothing stood down. For that reason, my theories are listed below:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl porn prices cash and free girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Good pornography by queer females for queer females frequently requires payment (as it should!). Not everybody can afford it, really wants to spend money on it, or seems comfortable doing so, therefore the option — the type of “lesbian” porn discovered for free on internet sites like PornHub and RedTube — is lacking, as you would expect. Just what’s kept? Straight pornography! Gay male porno!
• 
  Ladies Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As mentioned earlier on in this post, females react intimately to any or all forms of points that are unrelated to their intimate orientation. Many folks which like females however have turned on by right porn. You never know why. It really is really what it’s!
• 
  Normative charm expectations:
  
  Queer-for-queer porn can feature queers with multiple human body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts etc. Which is section of what’s thus amazing regarding it — however for everyone. Some queers favor porn performers whom seem like porno performers versus porn stars which appear like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  A lot of sex sites buyers enjoy pornography that provides an escape using their real gender schedules, or usage porno to explore dreams they’ve no desire to explore in real life. Occasionally watching actual queers perform away more direct or taboo dreams (including non-consent) just hits also near to home.
• 
  Selection:
  
  There’s a wider assortment of right pornography and homosexual male porn out there many different fetishes or kinks you could be into. Additionally more hardcore direct porn available to you, once queers carry out see right pornography, it tends to be explicit — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals watch hardcore direct pornography, but only 12per cent of lesbians and 24% of bisexuals see softcore.
• 
  Imagining on their own given that man:
  
  This is certainly anecdotal, but i have heard so many queer females claim that they imagine by themselves because guy while watching right pornography. Or that they like watching pornography in which females humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  Numerous might have categorized video clips of women masturbating (which came up from time to time during the reviews) as “directly porn.”
• 
  There’s more of it out there and it’s better to find.
  

In summary, women can be great animals capable of becoming turned on by many different video porn and when females ran globally there’d be more research about this.

Eventually, I would similar to to express some of the feedback on the “what types of porno do you actually enjoy” section to offer the entire overview of what individuals wished you to definitely know they certainly were into:

• In which’s the option for tentacle porno? Or gender machines heading walnuts and offering their lady creators unlimited sexual climaxes? I am perplexed (about many things).
• We see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the particular films. because i’m getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in pornography.
• Seriously my personal fave is actually gender scenes from lesbian programs, not genuine Porn porno. Unclear just how to categorize that overhead. I never ever watch real pornography.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• Home video clips
• Lesbian gifs, thank you tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is truly good
• E-book in-car to obtain bdsm circumstance tips, not to ever leave
• Sensual comics are in reality my favorite, but I wasn’t certain in which they fit. They normally are queer not always. I study online and often print (smutpeddler)
• I mostly see solo pictures and sketches of females. We have not a clue just who means they are.

Exactly How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Will You Digest?

1.9percent with the entire smut-consuming team consumes their own smut many times daily. 3.6per cent indulge one every single day, 24.6percent many times weekly, 11.7% once per week, 27.5per cent several times per month, 12.3per cent monthly, 16.3% multiple times a year, and slightly over two % take in it under that.

To make sure that’s 5.5% viewing pornography every day, which’s over the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
found once they surveyed 4,000 women
(93percent which were heterosexual) about their porn-watching behaviors. They even discovered 32.5% of men seeing porno regarding the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only asking about on the web porn movies, our very own get to had been larger — we included erotica and erotic imagery.

Exactly what aspects manipulate how many times you take in smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we consider various union and intimate situations.

Plainly there’s a pretty powerful relationship between how often you consume smut and exactly how typically you are sex. These figures would suggest that co-habitation decreases frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests that these couples commonly ingesting porn with each other.

Absolutely a direct union between eating smut/erotica/porn and regularity of self pleasure — over 90 per cent of these which masturbate multiple times each week or maybe more digest smut, when compared to some over 50 per cent of those who masturbate below one time per year.

In the entire class — all 8,566 of you — 55.3% said pornography is part of the method that you often masturbate. 39.4percent mentioned similar of pornography.

In Closing

Numerous asked for the opinions for informative data on where they might get a hold of queer pornography intended for queers. Let me make that occur obtainable, because every person into queer porno warrants feeling in this way commenter on
You Will Need Help: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who typed:

“I visited queerporn dot tv I am also just resting here whining because i have not witnessed pornography with individuals just who appear like me, which seem like people i’d in fact screw, whom shag like I would screw. It feels so real. We never ever realized that I thought very marginalized and objectified by popular porno, and then I believe validated. Like, its okay that i’ve gender ways i actually do because see, you can find men and women the same as me personally.”

You ought to study that article! In addition these:

Go out and take pleasure in whatever type of smut you want to!