87per cent Of Queer Women Can Be Into Porn or Erotica, However The Whole Thing Is Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, prepared for all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We garnered over 8,566 total replies (89% which happened to be from people involving the years of 18 and 36) now we are discussing the outcome to you, piece by piece. Previously:

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How Much Smut Perform Queer Women Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing behaviors with the American people
announced that American men and women are not appearing to want to talk to the Pew Research Center about their porn-viewing behaviors: merely 25per cent of males and 8per cent of women exactly who observe online video fessed to seeing adult videos. This seems very improbable, but some other estimates aren’t a lot higher —

Therapy These Days

claims that their unique “best guess”
is “somewhere within 8per cent and 20% of women on the web visit porn internet sites with any consistency.” An
Australian research of Health and Relationships in 2014
discovered 20% of females had viewed pornography in the last season. This doesn’t truly match up with information gathered of the net by itself,
that way
12per cent of web pages on the internet tend to be adult and 40 million Americans regularly visit pornography web sites. Or this 1 next of sex sites audiences are ladies and 35per cent of all internet packages tend to be related to pornography.

Dazed Digital, conversely, performed a much larger and a lot more revelatory survey of 10,500 gents and ladies in 114 nations. They
came up with higher figures
:

… while a-quarter of respondents never ever watch pornography, 59% view it a person to 5 times each week, and 16percent six or higher times. Both women and men think its great – around three-out of 5 watch it at least once each week, regardless of gender. Divisions happen at extremes of usage: 90percent of individuals who never ever observe pornography are women, while 90per cent of people who watch grot a lot more than 11 occasions each week tend to be men. Put another way, while most ladies engage at least one time per week, just 4% achieve this six or maybe more instances a week, in contrast to 60percent of men just who watch it virtually every time or higher.

Whenever we questioned our survey-takers “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in almost any kind?”, 87% of these whom responded the question replied in the affirmative. Very currently we are showing numbers which happen to be extremely greater than earlier studies show. Of these exactly who consume porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did therefore once a week or maybe more. Yet not all of that is standard porno.

What kind of smut perform queer females eat?

Dazed Digital discovered that
“the common straight-identifying lady is a lot more more likely to view girl-on-girl as compared to ordinary directly guy would be to see boy-on-boy.” They discovered “right women’s consumption of lesbian porn outstrips men’s: just gay or bisexual females watch even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found similar numbers
. Both of these a few of many studies having lit up the less-than-direct commitment women of orientations have actually making use of pornography they watch for the particular intercourse they really have (or wish to have).

A report from the porn-viewing practices of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found a good many ladies “didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porn, stating they discovered the movies unlikely and clearly created by and straight guys. Rather, lots of lesbians tend to be drawn to sensual flicks depicting two guys getting hired on.” The researchers, consistent with additional analysis about this topic, affirmed that “women are apt to have more sensual plasticity than men — that will be, they’re activated by a wider number of things.”

Within our survey, we made an important distinction between two different types of girl-on-girl porno — the kind produced by queer ladies for queer females (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Container
) therefore the sort produced by direct men and women for direct individuals (age.g., pretty much everything more). We discovered the previous had been far more well-known as compared to second — and, in addition, lots of queer ladies choose seeing straight porno or gay male porno over lesbian porn made by/for right people.

The data we’re gonna mention now is garnered from the 87.05percent of participants just who replied “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?” The 12.95per cent which responded “no” weren’t expected questions relating to specific porno behaviors. The 2,471 people whom skipped issue and therefore found on their own regarding the “what kind of porn do you actually like” page simply because they didn’t say “no,” that would’ve induced the study to instantly miss that web page, commonly included, as they are mysterious unicorns with fears, hopes and desires beyond my personal capabilities to discern. Just by their own answers about porn-liking page, most of them perform actually eat smut but simply did not feel just like responding to the prior concern, so it is maybe not safe to state that skipping practical question = responding to “no.” After all, for real:

they failed to answer no. But they failed to answer yes!

. It isn’t really secure to express such a thing about them at all, so we’re only going to pluck them from the group completely for the purposes of this analysis. So, go on it with a whole grain of sodium, but, whatever, these numbers carry out fit pretty much perfectly with answers to early in the day required questions relating to porn, so perhaps a small grain of salt.

The data below comes from the

5,277 respondents which helpfully reacted “yes” for the question “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any type?”

Thus why don’t we speak about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It really is unsurprising that erotica reading is really so prominent amongst queer ladies for several explanations. Firstly: because it’s at this time very popular than ever amongst ladies in general. Actually,
a 2012 British review by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 per cent of females having browse one or more erotic publication, and 43 percent said they desired reading about gender to using it. That study had been inspired by

50 Shades of Grey

, naturally, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and became one of several best-selling guides of them all.

This gives us to the 2nd explanation these numbers tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic at first took off as a way for enthusiasts (largely females) to explore male/male

Star Trek

pairings the reveal would never allow, and queer women have actually flocked in droves perform the category. As well as checking out male/male pairings, queer females utilize fanfic to
tell tales regarding female/female pairings
just who link intimately onscreen at a rate of
hardly ever
to
never ever
.

During the 200 statements kept in the unrestricted box for this concern, about half had been ensuring We realized that by “erotica” they intended “fan fiction.” Here’s a sampling of some of those solutions:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, virtually entirely
• Sexual comics are now actually my favorite, but I happened to ben’t certain where they fit. They are usually queer yet not usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Does homosexual fanfiction about fictional wizards count
• Why don’t we end up being genuine, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its homosexual lady fanfiction smut. If observing, it is homosexual guys becoming very enthusiastic with one another.
• It is all fucking fanfiction I am also addicted, literally there have been times during my life where I would study specific homosexual fanfic for over four hours each and every day.

Video

The structure of right and homosexual male porn most well known amongst queer females is on the net video. Particularly if you view lesbians as an isolated group, it is really the only format of erotica/smut/porn that encourages lots of enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals study lesbian erotica online, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42percent of bisexuals look over straight erotica using the internet. Although 38percent of lesbians view queer sexual imagery on-line, only 9percent at right sensual images online, in comparison to 22% of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From here forward I’ll make reference to “lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer people” as “Q4Q” porno” and “lesbian porno made by/for directly people”  as “Q4S” porno.

Will be the quantities of directly porno watchers so high because very a lot of study respondents do not always recognize as being entirely keen on females? Kind of, but that is perhaps not the complete tale. Normally those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians just who watch video view Q4Q porno at nearly similar costs, including 66percent – 67%.
• Bisexuals will be the almost certainly to view direct porn — 54% of these do, compared to 32% of queers and 41% of lesbians. They may be additionally more apt to look at Q4S pornography — 38percent ones carry out, when compared to 33% of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers exactly who see video are the almost certainly to look at gay male porn — 36% ones perform, when compared with around 32percent both for bisexuals and lesbians.

Therefore, although bisexual females are far more inclined to watch straight porn than lesbians tend to be, they may be not the sole types viewing it. Controversial sex guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his understanding of whom watches what sort of porn expands just yet,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw up my neat and orderly porno universe.” Sorry perhaps not sorry, Dan!

I think it is pretty common knowledge exactly why queer females dislike fake lesbian pornography, but, shortly: while not a lot of the ladies who got our sex study volunteered these records themselves, there is lack of lesbians online discussing their choice for right or gay male porno (
or article authors finding answers about it
) providing explanations like:

• “I’ve found lesbian porn is generally focused for straight dudes and they’re maybe not stimulating. We for some reason prefer direct porn.”
• “Lesbian pornography is just thus phony and exactly how very long many have long nails UGH! as a whole i primarily see directly pornography. Today if the straight porn I simply concentrate on the female. It can get me personally going constantly.”
• “Lesbian pornography is actually too desperate for my situation so not the truth that I have found it tough to view. Maybe not claiming right pornography is more actual but usually not very as tacky.”
• “despite the fact that I prefer (directly porno) to lesbian porno, I’m constantly studying the lady heading “she is good actress. Permitting him consider this woman is appreciating it.  And lesbian porno provides men written around it; it simply appears like the performers should not be doing what they’re performing.”

Some prices from our own survey-takers:

• We typically like fat porno. If that ended up being much easier to get a hold of making for by queers, I would personally view that, it scarcely is present.
• I really don’t view lesbian porn since I are only able to discover misogynist movies created for direct men, that we find offending.
• I enjoy enjoy a woman acquiring facefucked… I swear I’m a lesbian

Very, that apart, i am keen on chatting about exactly why 53per cent of most ladies who know and see genuine queer porn

in addition

see direct porno and just why 41percent of lesbian-identified females observe right porno. See, nothing pushes myself crazy quicker than somebody claiming that a “real lesbian” would not get turned on by direct porno — definitely OVERALL BANANAS. Although some queer women that see directly porno tend to be drawn to men and would like to rest using them, most of them are not, and a female’s inclination for right porno must not cast any question on her mentioned homosexuality.

We cross-checked various aspects, such as for example get older, work position, affinity for kink, intimate experience and gender demonstration, to find out if any of those had a direct impact on this area of choice and absolutely nothing endured around. For that reason, my personal theories are listed below:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl porn costs cash and free girl-on-girl porno sucks:
  
  Good porn by queer women for queer women frequently calls for repayment (since it should!). Not everyone are able to afford it, desires to buy it, or feels comfy performing this, while the alternative — the type of “lesbian” pornography found free-of-charge on internet sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually inadequate, to put it mildly. So what’s remaining? Directly my porn gay male porno!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As discussed earlier in the day in this post, females respond intimately to types items that are unrelated on their intimate orientation. Many of us which like women nonetheless get turned on by straight porno. You never know exactly why. It just is what it really is!
• 
  Normative beauty requirements:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography can function queers with numerous human body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts and so on. That is part of what is actually therefore incredible about this — yet not for everyone. Some queers favor porno performers which resemble pornography stars instead sex sites performers just who resemble their most favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Lots of sex sites people enjoy porn that offers an escape using their real sex everyday lives, or usage porn to explore dreams they will have no want to check out in real world. Sometimes witnessing genuine queers play down more direct or taboo dreams (eg non-consent) merely hits too near home.
• 
  Selection:
  
  Absolutely a wider variety of directly porn and gay male pornography online for many different fetishes or kinks someone may be into. There’s also more hardcore direct porn available to choose from, and when queers perform see straight pornography, it tends to be explicit — 33% of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals see hardcore straight porn, but merely 12percent of lesbians and 24% of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Imagining themselves as guy:
  
  That is anecdotal, but i have heard a lot of queer females say that they imagine by themselves as the man while watching straight porno. Or that they like enjoying pornography where females humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  A lot of might have categorized films of girls masturbating (which emerged several times in responses) as “straight porno.”
• 
  There is a lot more of it here and it is simpler to find.
  

Finally, ladies are fantastic creatures ready being aroused by many different video clip porno whenever females went worldwide there’d be more study about it.

Eventually, I would similar to to fairly share some of the commentary from the “what form of pornography will you see” part to provide you with the entire a review of what folks desired one to know these people were into:

• In which’s the choice for tentacle pornography? Or gender machines heading peanuts and providing their own lady inventors limitless sexual climaxes? I’m confused (about several things).
• We observe the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the video clips. because i’m going through my societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in pornography.
• Honestly my fave is intercourse views from lesbian programs, perhaps not genuine Porn porno. Not sure tips classify that overhead. We never ever view real porn.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• Home movies
• Lesbian gifs, thank you tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is really good
• E-book in-car attain bdsm circumstance tactics, to not ever exit
• Sexual comics are actually my favorite, but I found myselfn’t positive where they can fit. They’re usually queer yet not always. I read online and occasionally print (smutpeddler)
• I mainly have a look at unicamente photos and drawings of females. You will find no clue which makes them.

Just How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Consume?

1.9per cent of whole smut-consuming class eats their own smut multiple times each and every day. 3.6per cent indulge one every single day, 24.6per cent multiple times weekly, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5% multiple times monthly, 12.3% once per month, 16.3per cent several times per year, and some over two per cent consume it significantly less than that.

In order for’s 5.5per cent watching porno every day, which’s more than the 3.8% of women Cosmopolitan
found if they surveyed 4,000 females
(93per cent which were heterosexual) about their porn-watching behaviors. Additionally they found 32.5% of males seeing porn on the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only inquiring about online porn videos, the reach had been bigger — we included erotica and sensual images.

Exactly what facets manipulate how often you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let’s look at numerous connection and intimate circumstances.

Demonstrably there’s a fairly powerful relationship between how often you consume smut and how often you are sex. These numbers perform claim that co-habitation diminishes volume of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests these couples are not taking in porn collectively.

There’s a primary relationship between eating smut/erotica/porn and frequency of self pleasure — over 90 % of these exactly who masturbate multiple times a week or maybe more consume smut, compared to a little over 50 % of the who masturbate lower than annually.

With the entire class — all 8,566 of you — 55.3per cent said porno belongs to how you frequently masturbate. 39.4per cent stated the exact same of pornography.

To Summarize

A lot of expected within the comments for info on in which they are able to find queer porno intended for queers. I would like to create that occur individually, because everybody contemplating queer porn deserves feeling like this commenter on
You Will Need Assist: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, which wrote:

“I decided to go to queerporn dot television I am also simply resting here crying because I not witnessed porno with folks just who seem like me personally, just who appear to be men and women i might actually shag, exactly who screw like I would personally fuck. It feels so actual. I never knew that I thought thus marginalized and objectified by conventional porno, now i’m validated. Like, it is fine that You will find intercourse the way in which i really do because see, there are individuals exactly like me.”

You should study that post! Also these:

Get out and revel in whatever method of smut you wanna!