87% Of Queer Women Can Be Towards Porn or Erotica, Yet Not The Whole Thing Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Intercourse Review
, prepared for all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We gained over 8,566 comprehensive answers (89% that were from men and women amongst the many years of 18 and 36) nowadays we’re revealing the results along with you, piece by piece. Formerly:

Simply How Much Smut Would Queer Females Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center report on porn-viewing practices for the American individuals
announced your American people don’t seem to need to talk to the Pew analysis Center about their porn-viewing practices: merely 25percent of males and 8per cent of females exactly who watch video fessed doing watching adult online videos. This looks significantly improbable, but other quotes are not much higher —

Psychology Now

states that their own “best estimate”
is the fact that “somewhere between 8percent and 20per cent of women on the web see pornography websites with any regularity.” An
Australian learn of Health and relations in 2014
discovered 20% of women had looked over pornography within the last season. This won’t really match up with data gathered from the net it self,
that way
12% of web sites on the net tend to be pornographic and 40 million People in the us regularly see porn sites. Or this one next of sex sites visitors are ladies and 35percent of all of the net downloads tend to be related to pornography.

Dazed Digital, in contrast, performed a much larger and more revelatory study of 10,500 both women and men in 114 countries. They
developed larger numbers
:

… while one fourth of participants never observe pornography, 59% see it someone to 5 times per week, and 16% six or even more occasions. Both women and men adore it – around three out of five see it at least once weekly, no matter sex. Divisions occur from the extremes of usage: 90percent of people who never ever see pornography are ladies, while 90% of people who watch grot a lot more than 11 instances per week tend to be guys. Place one other way, many women engage at least once each week, just 4% achieve this six or even more times weekly, compared to 60percent of men whom see it just about any day or even more.

When we asked our very own survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in every form?”, 87percent of the exactly who answered issue answered for the affirmative. Therefore currently we are showing numbers which can be extraordinarily greater than previous research has shown. Of the who eat porn/smut/erotica, 39% did thus once a week or higher. Not all of that is actually standard pornography.

What kind of smut perform queer ladies eat?

Dazed Digital found that
“an average straight-identifying lady is actually much more more likely to enjoy girl-on-girl as compared to average direct man will be enjoy boy-on-boy.” They found “directly ladies consumption of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: only gay or bisexual ladies observe even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found similar numbers
. Both of these the lots of surveys that have lit up the less-than-direct union females of orientations have making use of the pornography they watch toward method of gender they really have actually (or desire).

A report about porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian researchers found the vast majority of women “didn’t look after girl-on-girl porn, stating they found the flicks impractical and demonstrably produced by and for directly guys. As an alternative, lots of lesbians tend to be attracted to sensual movies portraying two men setting it up on.” The scientists, consistent with various other research on this topic, affirmed that “women tend to have more erotic plasticity than males — definitely, they truly are switched on by a wider number of situations.”

Within our study, we made an important difference between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porn — the sort from queer females for queer females (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Package
) while the kind made by straight people for directly men and women (e.g., just about everything else). We found the previous had been a lot more popular as compared to second — and, furthermore, a lot of queer women like enjoying straight porn or homosexual male porn over lesbian porno made by/for straight individuals.

The information we’re gonna talk about now’s garnered through the 87.05percent of participants just who answered “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in any kind?” The 12.95percent who replied “no” are not asked questions about specific pornography practices. The 2,471 human beings just who skipped issue and so found by themselves regarding “what kind of pornography do you realy like” page since they failed to say “no,” which may’ve caused the study to instantly miss that page, are not included, because they’re mysterious unicorns with anxieties, hopes and needs beyond my powers to detect. Just by their own solutions about porn-liking web page, a lot of them carry out actually consume smut but just don’t feel like responding to the last concern, so it’s perhaps not safe to declare that bypassing issue = answering “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they failed to answer no. But they don’t respond to yes!

. It isn’t really secure to state everything about them whatsoever, therefore we’re merely gonna pluck all of them out from the party entirely when it comes to purposes of this analysis. Therefore, go on it with a grain of salt, but, regardless, these numbers carry out fit more or less perfectly with answers to earlier required questions about porno, therefore maybe a tiny whole grain of salt.

The information below originates from the

5,277 participants exactly who helpfully responded “yes” for the concern “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?”

Therefore let us mention these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It’s unsurprising that erotica reading can be so prominent amongst queer ladies for a couple explanations. First of all: because it’s currently popular than before amongst feamales in general. Indeed,
a 2012 Uk review by Dottybingo.com
revealed 91 percent of women having study at least one sensual publication, and 43% mentioned they wanted checking out about sex to presenting it. That study was actually empowered by

50 Colors of Grey

, obviously, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of the best-selling publications of them all.

This delivers me to the second cause these figures are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning became popular for followers (primarily ladies) to explore male/male

Star Trek

pairings the show itself could not allow, and queer women have actually flocked in droves perform the category. In addition to checking out male/male pairings, queer women use fanfic to
inform tales regarding the female/female pairings
just who connect sexually onscreen at a consistent level of
rarely
to
never ever
.

Within the 200 feedback remaining into the unrestricted box with this question, about half were ensuring We knew that by “erotica” they created “fan fiction.” Here’s a sampling of some of these solutions:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, nearly exclusively
• Sexual comics are in fact my favorite, but I becamen’t yes in which they fit. They normally are queer yet not constantly.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards number
• Let us end up being actual, it really is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it is gay girl fanfiction smut. If watching, its homosexual dudes being super passionate with one another.
• It’s all screwing fanfiction I am also addicted, literally there have been instances in my own existence in which i might read direct homosexual fanfic for longer than four-hours a day.

Video

The structure of direct and gay male pornography hottest amongst queer ladies is online video clip. Specifically if you view lesbians as an isolated party, it is the actual only real format of erotica/smut/porn that inspires numerous enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70percent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography using the internet, but merely 25% of lesbians, 32per cent of queers and 42per cent of bisexuals look over right erotica using the internet. Although 38% of lesbians look at queer erotic imagery on line, just 9percent at right erotic imagery on the web, when compared to 22per cent of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From this point forward I’ll relate to “lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” porno” and “lesbian pornography made by/for right men and women”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Are the amounts of directly porno watchers excessive because thus numerous review participants cannot fundamentally recognize to be specifically interested in females? Type of, but that’s not the tale. They are those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians who view video view Q4Q porn at almost similar prices, starting from 66percent – 67%.
• Bisexuals will be the almost certainly to view straight pornography — 54percent of these carry out, when compared to 32per cent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They’re in addition the most likely to watch Q4S porno — 38percent of these would, versus 33% of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers who see online video include probably to look at homosexual male porn — 36percent of those do, when compared with around 32% for bisexuals and lesbians.

So, although bisexual ladies tend to be more inclined to look at direct porn than lesbians are, they can be definitely not truly the only types enjoying it. Controversial sex guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that their comprehension of who watches what type of porn offers only thus far,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw up my personal neat and organized pornography market.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

I believe its fairly public knowledge why queer females dislike fake lesbian porn, but, shortly: while not a lot of the ladies who took our sex study volunteered this information by themselves, there isn’t any shortage of lesbians on the web talking about their unique inclination for direct or homosexual male porno (
or writers looking for solutions regarding it
) providing explanations similar:

• “I have found lesbian porn is generally targeted for right guys and they’re not arousing. We for some reason choose right porno.”
• “Lesbian porn simply very artificial and how very long a few of them have traditionally nails UGH! total i generally see directly porno. Now if its directly porno i just pay attention to the feminine. It would possibly get me personally going constantly.”
• “Lesbian porn is far too tacky for me personally and so not even close to the fact that I find it tough to watch. Perhaps not saying directly pornography is any more real but not often very as tacky.”
• “though I like (right porno) to lesbian pornography, i am constantly taking a look at the woman heading “she’s an excellent actress. Permitting him think she actually is appreciating it.  And lesbian porno has guys authored throughout it; it simply seems like the actresses should not be doing what they’re performing.”

Some estimates from your very own survey-takers:

• We typically like fat porn. If it was much easier to discover and made for and by queers, i might view that, nonetheless it scarcely exists.
• I really don’t enjoy lesbian pornography since I can only get the misogynist movies made for right males, that we find offending.
• I love to watch a lady getting facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

Thus, that aside, i am more interested in talking about the reason why 53per cent of most ladies who are aware of and view real queer porn

in addition

watch straight porn and exactly why 41per cent of lesbian-identified women watch direct pornography. See, absolutely nothing drives me personally nuts more quickly than someone declaring that a “real lesbian” wouldn’t get fired up by direct porn — definitely OVERALL BANANAS. Although many queer women who watch direct porn are attracted to guys and wish to rest with these people, many of them aren’t, and a female’s preference for right porno must not throw any question on the woman mentioned homosexuality.

I cross-checked different elements, such as for example get older, employment status, attraction for kink, sexual knowledge and gender speech, to find out if any of those had a direct effect about area of choice and absolutely nothing endured on. For that reason, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl porn costs money and no-cost girl-on-girl porno sucks:
  
  Good pornography by queer women for queer females usually requires payment (because it should!). Nobody are able to afford it, desires to put money into it, or feels comfortable doing so, as well as the option — the type of “lesbian” porno discovered free-of-charge on sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually inadequate, to say the least. So what’s kept? Straight porno! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Flexible:
  
  As talked about earlier in the day in this post, females react intimately to all the sorts of things that are unrelated for their sexual direction. Many folks exactly who prefer ladies still have turned on by straight porno. That knows the reason why. It is really what it really is!
• 
  Normative charm criteria:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno can function queers with many body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts etc. Which is section of what’s therefore wonderful about this — but not for everybody. Some queers prefer porno performers exactly who appear to be porno movie stars versus sex sites performers whom look like a common bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as get away:
  
  Numerous porn people enjoy porno that offers a getaway off their actual sex schedules, or use pornography to understand more about fantasies obtained no want to explore in actual life. Occasionally witnessing genuine queers play completely much more direct or taboo fantasies (particularly non-consent) merely hits also near residence.
• 
  Variety:
  
  Absolutely a wider assortment of right porn and homosexual male porn online for assorted fetishes or kinks an individual might-be into. There is also a lot more hardcore right pornography available, when queers would view directly porn, it is often hardcore — 33% of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals see hardcore right porn, but just 12% of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Picturing themselves as guy:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but i have heard numerous queer women claim that they imagine on their own given that man as you’re watching direct porno. Or they like watching porn in which ladies humiliate guys.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Lots of possess labeled videos of girls masturbating (which emerged from time to time during the feedback) as “directly porno.”
• 
  There is a lot more of it out truth be told there and it is more straightforward to find.
  

In summary, women are great animals effective at being turned on by a variety of movie pornography if in case females went society truth be told there’d become more analysis about any of it.

Finally, I’d similar to to fairly share a number of the commentary throughout the “what kind of porno do you actually watch” part to provide you with the breakdown of what individuals desired you to definitely understand they certainly were into:

• Where’s the choice for tentacle pornography? Or for intercourse machines going walnuts and providing their own girl creators endless sexual climaxes? I’m baffled (about lots of things).
• I see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the particular films. because i’m getting over my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting porn.
• Actually my fave is actually intercourse moments from lesbian programs, perhaps not genuine Porn pornography. Not sure ideas on how to classify that overhead. I never ever view actual porno.
• Machines/dildo machines
• Home movies
• Lesbian gifs, cheers tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is actually good
• E-book in car to have bdsm scenario ideas, not to ever get off
• Erotic comics are in fact my personal favorite, but I found myselfn’t yes in which they can fit. They normally are queer not usually. I browse online and occasionally print (smutpeddler)
• I largely take a look at solamente pictures and drawings of females. You will find no idea who means they are.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Will You Eat?

1.9% in the entire smut-consuming class uses their unique smut several times every day. 3.6% indulge one just about every day, 24.6% multiple times weekly, 11.7percent weekly, 27.5% many times four weeks, 12.3percent monthly, 16.3per cent many times annually, and a tiny bit over two % consume it not as much as that.

So that’s 5.5per cent viewing porno every day, which’s above the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
discovered once they surveyed 4,000 women
(93% that happened to be heterosexual) about their porn-watching behaviors. Additionally they discovered 32.5percent of males seeing porno on daily, so there’s that. But Cosmo was only asking about online pornography movies, all of our get to was bigger — we included erotica and sensual imagery.

What aspects manipulate how many times you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let us examine different union and intimate scenarios.

Obviously there is a pretty strong relationship between how frequently you take in smut and how usually you’re having sexual intercourse. These figures carry out claim that co-habitation decreases frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests these particular partners commonly eating porn collectively.

There is a direct connection between consuming smut/erotica/porn and frequency of self pleasure — over 90 per cent of the whom masturbate several times weekly or higher eat smut, when compared to quite over 50 per cent of those just who masturbate below annually.

Of this entire group — all 8,566 of you — 55.3per cent stated porn falls under the manner in which you often masturbate. 39.4per cent stated similar of erotica.

In Closing

Lots of asked within the reviews for informative data on where they are able to find queer porno created for queers. I want to make that happen for your family, because everyone into queer pornography warrants to feel along these lines commenter on
You May Need Assist: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who composed:

“I visited queerporn dot tv I am also just seated here sobbing because i have never seen porno with folks who appear like me personally, which appear to be men and women i might really fuck, just who fuck like i might screw. It seems so actual. I never understood that I believed thus marginalized and objectified by popular pornography, and today i’m authenticated. Like, it is okay that i’ve intercourse the way I do because see, you will find people similar to myself.”

You need to review that blog post! Also these:

Get out and take pleasure in whatever form of smut you wanna!