87percent Of Queer Ladies Are Into Porn or Erotica, Although Not All Of It Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Best Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, open to all «lady-types who sleep with lady-types.» We earned over 8,566 full replies (89% that happened to be from people involving the years of 18 and 36) and now we are sharing the outcomes along with you, bit by bit. Formerly:

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Exactly How Much Smut Would Queer Women Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center report on porn-viewing behaviors of American people
unveiled that the United states folks are not appearing to need to talk to the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing practices: only 25percent of males and 8percent of women just who observe online video fessed around viewing adult videos. This seems extremely unlikely, but some other estimates are not much higher —

Therapy Now

states that their own «best guess»
is «somewhere between 8percent and 20per cent of females on line check out pornography internet sites with any regularity.» An
Australian research of Health and affairs in 2014
discovered 20percent of females had checked pornography within the last 12 months. This doesn’t truly match up with data collected by internet itself,
that way
12% of websites online tend to be pornographic and 40 million Americans regularly see porno internet sites. Or that one 3rd of porn watchers tend to be ladies and 35per cent of all net downloads are regarding pornography.

Dazed Digital, having said that, did a much larger and revelatory survey of 10,500 men and women in 114 nations. They
developed larger numbers
:

… while a-quarter of respondents never observe pornography, 59percent watch it a person to five times each week, and 16% six or maybe more times. Both women and men want it – around three-out of 5 see it one or more times weekly, regardless of sex. Divisions take place from the extremes of usage: 90percent of people that never ever watch pornography are ladies, while 90% of individuals who watch grot significantly more than 11 instances weekly tend to be men. Put another way, some females enjoy at least once a week, just 4per cent do so six or even more times weekly, compared to 60percent of males exactly who watch it just about any day or more.

When we requested our very own survey-takers «do you take in porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?», 87% of these which replied issue answered during the affirmative. So currently we are showing numbers which are extraordinarily higher than past research has shown. Of these which consume porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did so once a week or higher. However all of that is old-fashioned porn.

What kind of smut would queer females consume?

Dazed Online learned that
«an average straight-identifying lady is actually much more very likely to view girl-on-girl as compared to ordinary right man is to see boy-on-boy.» They found «direct ladies’ usage of lesbian pornography outstrips men’s room: merely gay or bisexual ladies view a lot more girl-on-girl.» Cosmo
found comparable numbers
. Both of these the many studies which have illuminated the less-than-direct connection females of orientations have actually with the pornography they see into type intercourse they actually have (or want).

A research throughout the porn-viewing routines of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts discovered a lot of the females «didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porn, claiming they found the films unrealistic and obviously created by and for directly guys. Rather, numerous lesbians tend to be drawn to sexual flicks depicting two dudes getting it on.» The experts, in line with other investigation about this subject, affirmed that «women tend to have a lot more sensual plasticity than guys — this is certainly, they are switched on by a wider selection of situations.»

Inside our study, we made an important distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl pornography — the kind created by queer women for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Package
) and type produced by straight folks for direct people (age.g., pretty much everything otherwise). We discovered the previous ended up being a lot more common compared to latter — and, moreover, many queer ladies prefer enjoying direct porn or gay male pornography over lesbian porno made by/for direct folks.

The data we are gonna discuss now could be garnered through the 87.05per cent of respondents exactly who answered «yes» to «do you customer porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?» The 12.95% who replied «no» are not expected questions regarding particular pornography behaviors. The 2,471 humans exactly who skipped the question and for that reason found on their own about «what kind of porno can you like» web page because they didn’t say «no,» which could’ve induced the survey to automatically miss that web page, are not provided, because they are strange unicorns with anxieties, expectations and needs beyond my forces to detect. Judging by their unique answers on the porn-liking page, several carry out actually eat smut but just didn’t feel like responding to the prior question, so it is perhaps not secure to declare that bypassing practical question = responding to «no.» I mean, for real:

they did not answer no. But they failed to answer yes!

. It is not safe to express such a thing about them at all, so we’re just going to pluck them out of the party completely for any reason for this evaluation. Thus, go with a grain of sodium, but, irrespective, these figures do fit basically perfectly with answers to early in the day required questions about porno, so possibly a tiny grain of salt.

The data below originates from the

5,277 participants which helpfully responded «yes» on the question «do you eat porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?»

So why don’t we talk about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It’s unsurprising that erotica reading is indeed popular amongst queer ladies for a couple explanations. First of all: since it is currently popular than in the past amongst ladies in common. In reality,
a 2012 Uk survey by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 percent of females having study a minumum of one sensual guide, and 43% mentioned they desired reading about intercourse to presenting it. That study had been prompted by

50 Tones of Gray

, obviously, a g-dawful publication that began as Twilight fanfic and became one of many best-selling books in history.

This brings me to the next reason these numbers tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially took off as a way for fans (mainly women) to explore male/male

Superstar Trek

pairings the show itself could not help, and queer females have actually flocked in droves perform the genre. As well as reading male/male pairings, queer women utilize fanfic to
tell tales regarding the female/female pairings
just who link intimately onscreen for a price of
rarely
to
never ever
.

For the 200 commentary remaining from inside the open-ended package for this concern, approximately half happened to be ensuring We realized that by «erotica» they required «fan fiction.» Here is a sampling of some of those responses:

• By «erotica» i am talking about fanfiction, practically entirely
• Sexual comics are in reality my personal favorite, but I happened to ben’t sure where they fit. They are usually queer yet not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Does homosexual fanfiction about fictional wizards count
• Let us be real, its Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it really is homosexual woman fanfiction smut. If viewing, its gay guys getting super enthusiastic with one another.
• It is all fucking fanfiction I am also hooked, actually there has been occasions within my life in which i’d study direct gay fanfic for longer than four hours on a daily basis.

Online Video

The format of direct and homosexual male porno preferred amongst queer females is online video clip. Especially if you consider lesbians as a remote group, it is the actual only real format of erotica/smut/porn that inspires a lot of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70per cent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals study lesbian erotica online, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32per cent of queers and 42% of bisexuals study directly erotica on the web. Although 38per cent of lesbians check queer sensual images online, merely 9per cent at right sexual imagery on line, compared to 22per cent of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From this point ahead we’ll refer to «lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer folks» as «Q4Q» porn» and «lesbian porn made by/for straight men and women»  as «Q4S» pornography.

Will be the quantities of direct porn watchers too high because so many study participants cannot always identify as actually specifically drawn to ladies? Type of, but that is perhaps not the whole tale. These are generally those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians which see video watch Q4Q porno at almost similar prices, starting from 66% – 67%.
• Bisexuals are the likely to look at right porno — 54per cent of these would, when compared with 32per cent of queers and 41% of lesbians. They are also more apt to view Q4S pornography — 38% ones do, when compared with 33percent of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers who observe video include likely to look at homosexual male porn — 36% of them do, when compared to about 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

Therefore, although bisexual women tend to be more inclined to view directly pornography than lesbians tend to be, they may be not the actual only real types watching it. Controversial gender advice columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his comprehension of who watches what sort of porno offers just at this point,
lamenting that
«lesbians screw up my personal nice and organized porn world.» Sorry not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion it really is fairly public knowledge exactly why queer women dislike phony lesbian pornography, but, shortly: although not most of the women who took our very own sex study volunteered these details by themselves, there isn’t any shortage of lesbians using the internet talking about their choice for straight or homosexual male porno (
or article authors shopping for answers regarding it
) supplying explanations want:

• «I’ve found lesbian pornography is usually focused for direct guys and they are maybe not arousing. We in some way choose directly porn.»
• «Lesbian porn simply therefore phony and how long a lot of them have traditionally fingernails UGH! general i mainly see right pornography. Today if their right porno i just focus on the feminine. It may get me heading like hell.»
• «Lesbian pornography is much too desperate for my situation and so not even close to the truth that I’ve found it tough to watch. Perhaps not claiming straight porn is any further real but not often very as tacky.»
• «despite the fact that I prefer (direct pornography) to lesbian porn, i am constantly looking at the lady heading «she’s an excellent celebrity. Letting him think she actually is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian porno has men authored all over it; it seems like the actresses don’t want to do what they’re carrying out.»

Some estimates from your very own survey-takers:

• I generally like excess fat pornography. If it was better to discover making for and also by queers, i might watch that, nevertheless barely prevails.
• Really don’t watch lesbian porn since I can just only select the misogynist films made for directly guys, which I discover unpleasant.
• I enjoy view a girl getting facefucked… We swear i am a lesbian

So, that aside, I’m interested in talking about the reason why 53per cent of women that know watching actual queer porn

additionally

see right pornography and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified women watch straight porn. See, absolutely nothing drives myself nuts quicker than somebody claiming that a «real lesbian» wouldn’t get fired up by straight porn — definitely FULL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer ladies who see directly pornography tend to be drawn to males and would like to sleep together, quite a few aren’t, and a lady’s inclination for directly porn shouldn’t cast any doubt on her reported homosexuality.

I cross-checked many aspects, particularly get older, employment condition, affinity for kink, intimate knowledge and sex presentation, to find out if any of those had an effect on this subject industry of preference and nothing endured out. For that reason, my personal theories are listed below:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl porn costs cash and cost-free girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Great pornography by queer women for queer females normally needs repayment (as it should!). Not everyone can afford it, desires to put money into it, or seems comfortable performing this, as well as the choice — the sort of «lesbian» porno discovered for free on web sites like PornHub and RedTube — is missing, to say the least. Just what exactly’s left? Straight porn! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Flexible:
  
  As talked about previously on this page, females respond sexually to all the sorts of things that are unrelated their sexual positioning. Many of us just who prefer ladies nevertheless have switched on by direct porno. You never know precisely why. It really is really what really!
• 
  Normative charm standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer porn can feature queers with a variety of human body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts and so on. That is section of what exactly is thus wonderful about it — but not for everyone. Some queers favor pornography performers who seem like pornography movie stars versus sex sites stars whom seem like their most favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Many porn customers enjoy pornography that gives a getaway off their actual gender resides, or use porno to understand more about fantasies they will have no aspire to explore in actuality. Often witnessing real queers perform away much more direct or taboo fantasies (such as non-consent) only strikes also near to residence.
• 
  Selection:
  
  Absolutely a wider variance of directly porno and homosexual male porno available to choose from for many different fetishes or kinks individuals may be into. There’s also more explicit right porn online, as soon as queers do watch direct porn, it tends to be hardcore — 33per cent of lesbians and 48% of bisexuals see hardcore straight porno, but only 12percent of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals see softcore.
• 
  Picturing on their own given that guy:
  
  This will be anecdotal, but I heard many queer women say that they imagine by themselves since man while watching direct pornography. Or they prefer seeing pornography in which females humiliate guys.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Lots of could have labeled videos of females masturbating (which came up several times during the responses) as «right porno.»
• 
  Absolutely more of it out truth be told there and it’s really much easier to discover.
  

Finally, ladies are great creatures able to being turned-on by a number of video clip pornography whenever females went society there’d be much more investigation about it.

At long last, I would like to express a number of the reviews from the «what sort of pornography do you see» section to give you the total overview of what individuals desired that understand they were into:

• Whereis the choice for tentacle porno? And gender devices heading nuts and offering their own girl inventors unlimited orgasms? I’m baffled (about lots of things).
• I see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the actual movies. because I am recovering from my societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting porn.
• Truly my fave is sex views from lesbian programs, perhaps not actual Porn porn. Undecided just how to categorize that overhead. We never ever watch actual pornography.
• Machines/dildo devices
• Residence video clips
• Lesbian gifs, many thanks tumblr
• Tumblr «romantic pornography» web page is really great
• Book in car to have bdsm scenario some ideas, not to ever get-off
• Sexual comics are now actually my favorite, but I becamen’t certain in which they can fit. They’re usually queer not usually. I browse online and often printing (smutpeddler)
• We largely have a look at unicamente photos and illustrations of women. I have not a clue just who makes them.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Will You Digest?

1.9% of this entire smut-consuming team uses their unique smut several times per day. 3.6% indulge one a day, 24.6% many times each week, 11.7percent once weekly, 27.5per cent many times 30 days, 12.3per cent once a month, 16.3% several times a year, and a tiny bit over two per cent eat it not as much as that.

So that’s 5.5per cent viewing porn daily, which’s above the 3.8percent of females Cosmopolitan
discovered when they surveyed 4,000 women
(93% of which happened to be heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching behaviors. They even found 32.5% of males watching porn throughout the everyday, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only inquiring about on line pornography videos, all of our get to was bigger — we included erotica and sexual imagery.

Exactly what elements influence how often you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let us examine various relationship and sexual circumstances.

Clearly absolutely a fairly strong correlation between how often you consume smut as well as how often you’re sex. These numbers do suggest that co-habitation reduces regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests that these couples commonly taking in pornography with each other.

There’s a primary connection between eating smut/erotica/porn and regularity of genital stimulation — over 90 per cent of those who masturbate several times a week or higher digest smut, when compared with a little over 50 per cent of those whom masturbate below once a year.

Of whole group — all 8,566 of you — 55.3% said porno belongs to the way you typically masturbate. 39.4% said exactly the same of pornography.

To Summarize

Lots of asked for the commentary for info on where they are able to get a hold of queer porno made for queers. I’d like to make that happen available, because everybody enthusiastic about queer porno is deserving of feeling along these lines commenter on
You Will Want Help: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, who had written:

«we went along to queerporn dot tv and I am only resting here crying because I not witnessed porno with people which look like me personally, exactly who appear to be men and women I would personally really shag, who bang like i might bang. It seems therefore actual. We never ever recognized that I believed so marginalized and objectified by conventional pornography, and then I feel validated. Like, its okay that We have intercourse the way i really do because see, you can find men and women like me.»

You ought to review that post! In addition these:

Go forward and savor whatever type smut you want to!