87% Of Queer Women Are Towards Porn or Erotica, However Everything Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey
, available to all “lady-types whom sleep with lady-types.” We earned over 8,566 total responses (89per cent that were from individuals between the years of 18 and 36) now we’re revealing the results to you, piece by piece. Formerly:

How Much Smut Would Queer Women Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center report on porn-viewing behaviors regarding the US men and women
disclosed your United states individuals don’t seem to want to speak with the Pew analysis Center about their porn-viewing behaviors: only 25% of males and 8percent of women who observe online video fessed around enjoying pornographic videos. This appears extremely improbable, but some other estimates aren’t higher —

Psychology Nowadays

says that their “best estimate”
would be that “somewhere between 8% and 20per cent of females web see porn internet sites with any consistency.” An
Australian learn of Health and Relationships in 2014
discovered 20% of women had viewed pornography in the last 12 months. It doesn’t truly complement with information gathered by the internet itself,
like that
12% of internet sites on the web tend to be adult and 40 million Us americans regularly go to porno internet sites. Or that one 3rd of porn visitors tend to be females and 35per cent of all internet downloads are associated with pornography.

Dazed Digital, on the other hand, did a much larger plus revelatory study of 10,500 both women and men in 114 countries. They
developed greater figures
:

… while a quarter of participants never watch pornography, 59per cent watch it one to five times per week, and 16percent six or higher instances. Both women and men think its great – around three out of five watch it at least one time weekly, irrespective of sex. Divisions occur during the extremes of consumption: 90% of individuals who never see porno are ladies, while 90% of individuals who watch grot more than 11 times per week tend to be men. Put one other way, although many women engage at least once a week, only 4% do so six or more instances a week, weighed against 60per cent of men who view it just about any day or more.

When we requested the survey-takers “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in virtually any type?”, 87percent of these who replied the question responded inside affirmative. So currently we’re revealing figures that are extraordinarily greater than earlier studies show. Of these which consume porn/smut/erotica, 39percent performed thus once per week or maybe more. However all of that is standard porno.

What sort of smut carry out queer females take in?

Dazed Online learned that
“the common straight-identifying girl is more prone to enjoy girl-on-girl as compared to ordinary directly guy is watch boy-on-boy.” They found “right ladies consumption of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: only gay or bisexual ladies see a lot more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found similar figures
. Those two the a lot of studies having illuminated the less-than-direct relationship women of all of the orientations have actually making use of pornography they watch to your method of sex they actually have (or wish to have).

A report regarding the porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts discovered a lot of ladies “didn’t maintain girl-on-girl pornography, stating they discovered the flicks impractical and clearly created by and direct males. Instead, numerous lesbians tend to be attracted to erotic films depicting two dudes getting hired on.” The experts, consistent with various other study on this topic, affirmed that “women generally have more erotic plasticity than males — this is certainly, they are turned-on by a wider variety of things.”

In our study, we made an essential distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl pornography — the type produced by queer ladies for queer women (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Container
) therefore the kind produced by straight folks for directly people (e.g., pretty much everything otherwise). We found the former ended up being much more preferred than the latter — and, additionally, many queer ladies choose viewing directly porn or homosexual male porn over lesbian pornography made by/for directly individuals.

The info we’re gonna explore now could be garnered from the 87.05percent of respondents which responded “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?” The 12.95percent whom responded “no” were not asked questions relating to specific porno behaviors. The 2,471 people which skipped the question and as a consequence discovered by themselves regarding “what style of pornography do you ever like” page since they didn’t say “no,” that will’ve induced the study to instantly skip that web page, aren’t included, since they’re mysterious unicorns with concerns, hopes and desires beyond my personal abilities to discern. Just by their unique responses on porn-liking page, most of them carry out actually consume smut but just did not feel responding to the last concern, so it is perhaps not safe to say that missing issue = responding to “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they did not respond to no. Nevertheless they didn’t answer yes!

. It is not safe to express anything about them anyway, so we’re just going to pluck all of them out of the team entirely for your purposes of this analysis. Therefore, go with a whole grain of sodium, but, no matter, these numbers perform fit just about perfectly with solutions to earlier needed questions regarding porno, therefore perhaps a small grain of sodium.

The info below originates from the

5,277 participants which helpfully reacted “yes” with the question “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any form?”

Therefore why don’t we talk about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It really is unsurprising that erotica reading is so preferred amongst queer ladies for a few reasons. First of all: because it’s at this time much more popular than before amongst women in common. Indeed,
a 2012 British study by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 per cent of females having browse one erotic book, and 43 percent stated they wanted checking out about sex to having it. That study had been encouraged by

50 Colors of Gray

, needless to say, a g-dawful guide that started as Twilight fanfic and turned into the popular guides of all time.

This delivers us to the next cause these numbers tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially shot to popularity as a way for fans (mainly ladies) to explore male/male

Star Trek

pairings the express would not enable, and queer ladies have flocked in droves do the style. Along with reading male/male pairings, queer women make use of fanfic to
tell tales towards female/female pairings
exactly who link sexually onscreen at a rate of
rarely
to
never
.

Inside the 200 opinions left during the unrestricted field with this question, about 50 % had been guaranteeing I understood that by “erotica” they suggested “fan fiction.” Listed here is a sampling of some of those answers:

• By “erotica” after all fanfiction, very nearly solely
• Sexual comics are in fact my personal favorite, but I happened to ben’t positive where they can fit. They normally are queer but not usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Does gay fanfiction about imaginary wizards count
• Let us be real, its Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it’s gay girl fanfiction smut. If viewing, it’s gay guys being super enthusiastic with each other.
• It’s all screwing fanfiction I am also addicted, practically there has been occasions in my life where i’d read explicit gay fanfic for more than four-hours everyday.

Online Video

The structure of directly and homosexual male porno best amongst queer females is on the net video clip. Especially if you see lesbians as an isolated party, it is truly the only structure of erotica/smut/porn that inspires a lot of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For example, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals study lesbian pornography on the web, but just 25per cent of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42per cent of bisexuals look over directly erotica on the web. Although 38percent of lesbians look at queer sensual imagery web, just 9% at straight sexual imagery using the internet, when compared to 22% of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From here onward we’ll refer to “lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” porno” and “lesbian pornography made by/for directly folks”  as “Q4S” porn.

Are amounts of straight pornography watchers excessive because therefore numerous review participants do not necessarily identify as being solely interested in women? Sort of, but that’s maybe not the complete story. These are generally those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians which observe online video see Q4Q pornography at almost similar rates, starting from 66percent – 67%.
• Bisexuals are the more than likely to view straight porn — 54percent of those do, when compared to 32% of queers and 41% of lesbians. They are additionally the most likely to look at Q4S porn — 38per cent of these perform, versus 33per cent of queers and 29per cent of lesbians.
• Queers who watch video include almost certainly to view homosexual male porno — 36% of these would, when compared with about 32% both for bisexuals and lesbians.

Therefore, although bisexual females are far more inclined to watch straight porn than lesbians tend to be, they are not the only types watching it. Controversial sex guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his knowledge of exactly who watches what kind of porn stretches only to date,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my nice and orderly pornography world.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

I believe it is fairly common knowledge precisely why queer ladies dislike phony lesbian porn, but, fleetingly: although not most of the ladies who took our gender study volunteered these details independently, there isn’t any lack of lesbians on the web talking about their particular preference for direct or gay male porn (
or article authors in search of solutions about any of it
) supplying explanations want:

• “I’ve found lesbian pornography is generally targeted for right men and they’re perhaps not stimulating. We in some way choose straight porno.”
• “Lesbian porno is very phony as well as how very long a number of them have traditionally fingernails UGH! overall i mainly observe straight porno. Now if their straight pornography I simply focus on the feminine. It may get me heading constantly.”
• “Lesbian porn is much too tacky for my situation and so definately not the fact that I’ve found it tough to view. Perhaps not stating directly porno is actually more genuine but usually not quite as desperate.”
• “Despite the reality I prefer (right porno) to lesbian porno, i am constantly studying the woman going “she is a beneficial celebrity. Letting him believe the woman is appreciating it.  And lesbian pornography features males composed all over it; it seems like the performers don’t want to do what they’re carrying out.”

Some quotes from our very own survey-takers:

• I primarily like excess fat pornography. If it was actually much easier to get a hold of making for and also by queers, i’d watch that, nonetheless it scarcely is present.
• I don’t see lesbian porno since I could only discover the misogynist video clips designed for directly males, that we discover offending.
• I love to see a girl getting facefucked… I swear i am a lesbian

Very, that aside, I’m interested in chatting about the reason why 53% of most women who understand and view real queer porno

in addition

view straight porn and exactly why 41per cent of lesbian-identified ladies watch right pornography. See, nothing pushes myself peanuts more quickly than somebody declaring that a “real lesbian” would not get aroused by directly porno — definitely COMPLETE BANANAS. Although some queer ladies who view directly pornography are attracted to guys and want to sleep with them, a lot of them aren’t, and a woman’s preference for directly pornography should never throw any question on the woman reported homosexuality.

We cross-checked multiple aspects, such as for example age, employment standing, affinity for kink, sexual knowledge and gender demonstration, to see if any of those had an impact on this subject area of choice and absolutely nothing stood on. Thus, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl pornography prices money and free of charge girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer ladies for queer women frequently requires cost (since it should!). Not everybody can afford it, really wants to put money into it, or feels comfy doing so, as well as the alternative — the kind of “lesbian” porno discovered free of charge on websites like PornHub and RedTube — is missing, to say the least. Just what’s remaining? Directly porno! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Ladies Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As discussed earlier on in this article, ladies react intimately to all the forms of items that are unrelated their intimate orientation. Many which like women nevertheless have turned on by straight porno. That knows exactly why. It just is what truly!
• 
  Normative charm standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer porn has a tendency to feature queers with various human anatomy kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, renewable lifestyle haircuts etc. That is section of what is thus amazing about any of it — but not for all. Some queers like porno stars just who resemble pornography movie stars instead porn performers whom look like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as escape:
  
  Numerous sex sites customers enjoy pornography that gives a getaway off their genuine gender everyday lives, or usage porn to understand more about dreams they usually have no need to check out in real life. Occasionally watching actual queers play completely much more direct or taboo dreams (such non-consent) only strikes as well near to house.
• 
  Selection:
  
  There is a wider variety of directly porn and homosexual male porno out there for assorted fetishes or kinks an individual might be into. There’s also much more explicit directly porno on the market, once queers do enjoy directly porno, it tends to be explicit — 33per cent of lesbians and 48% of bisexuals observe hardcore straight porn, but merely 12% of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Picturing by themselves as man:
  
  That is anecdotal, but I heard plenty queer females claim that they imagine on their own given that guy while you’re watching straight porno. Or they prefer seeing porno in which women humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  Lots of could have categorized films of women masturbating (which emerged several times in opinions) as “direct pornography.”
• 
  There is more of it out there and it is much easier to find.
  

In closing, women can be fantastic animals ready getting turned on by various movie porn if in case women ran society there’d be more analysis about any of it.

At long last, I’d the same as to generally share a few of the commentary on the “what type of porn do you ever view” section to offer the a review of what folks wanted one to know these people were into:

• In whichis the selection for tentacle porn? Or for gender devices heading nuts and giving their own girl creators limitless sexual climaxes? I am baffled (about a lot of things).
• I see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the particular movies. because i’m getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in porno.
• Seriously my personal fave is intercourse scenes from lesbian shows, not real Porn porno. Uncertain how to classify that overhead. I never see genuine porno.
• Machines/dildo machines
• House films
• Lesbian gifs, cheers tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is actually great
• E-book in car getting bdsm circumstance ideas, to not ever hop out
• Erotic comics are in fact my favorite, but I wasn’t sure where they can fit. They’re usually queer although not constantly. We read online and often printing (smutpeddler)
• I generally view solamente pics and drawings of females. You will find no clue exactly who makes them.

Simply How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Realy Eat?

1.9per cent associated with the whole smut-consuming party eats their particular smut several times everyday. 3.6percent indulge one daily, 24.6per cent multiple times per week, 11.7% once per week, 27.5% multiple times four weeks, 12.3percent once per month, 16.3% many times a-year, and slightly over two % take in it not as much as that.

So that’s 5.5% watching porn daily, which’s significantly more than the 3.8% of females Cosmopolitan
discovered if they surveyed 4,000 women
(93percent that had been heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching habits. They even found 32.5% of men watching porno throughout the daily, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just asking about on the web porn video clips, our reach ended up being larger — we included erotica and sensual images.

Exactly what elements influence how often you take in smut/porn/erotica? Let us examine numerous connection and intimate scenarios.

Obviously there’s a fairly powerful correlation between how often you eat smut and exactly how usually you are having sexual intercourse. These figures carry out claim that co-habitation diminishes regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which implies that these lovers aren’t ingesting porn collectively.

There’s a primary relationship between consuming smut/erotica/porn and frequency of masturbation — over 90 per cent of these which masturbate several times per week or even more eat smut, in comparison to slightly over 50 per cent of the whom masturbate not as much as once a year.

For the entire group — all 8,566 of you — 55.3percent mentioned pornography falls under the manner in which you typically masturbate. 39.4percent mentioned exactly the same of erotica.

To Summarize

Numerous expected from inside the statements for info on where they might discover queer porno made for queers. Let me make that happen for your needs, because every person interested in queer porno deserves to feel like this commenter on
You Need Assist: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, just who wrote:

“we visited queerporn dot tv I am also only resting here whining because i have not witnessed porno with folks whom appear like me, whom seem like individuals I would personally actually fuck, just who bang like i’d shag. It feels very genuine. I never realized that I believed therefore marginalized and objectified by conventional porno, now personally i think validated. Like, it really is fine that i’ve gender just how i really do because see, discover folks similar to me personally.”

You ought to study that article! In addition these:

Go forth and enjoy whatever type of smut you wanna!