87% Of Queer Ladies Are Into Porn or Erotica, Yet Not The Whole Thing Is Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In March 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Greatest Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, ready to accept all “lady-types just who sleep with lady-types.” We earned over 8,566 full replies (89per cent of which had been from men and women amongst the ages of 18 and 36) and from now on we’re revealing the outcome to you, bit-by-bit. Previously:

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Just How Much Smut Perform Queer Females Digest?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing habits on the US folks
revealed the United states people don’t seem to want to talk to the Pew analysis Center about their porn-viewing routines: merely 25% of males and 8percent of women exactly who observe online video fessed as much as enjoying adult online videos. This looks significantly unlikely, but additional estimates aren’t a lot higher —

Psychology Now

states that their unique “best estimate”
usually “somewhere within 8percent and 20percent of females web visit porn sites with any regularity.” An
Australian Study of Health and Relationships in 2014
discovered 20per cent of women had considered pornography within the past 12 months. This won’t truly match with data harvested by net by itself,
like this
12percent of internet sites online are pornographic and 40 million Americans regularly check out porno websites. Or that one 3rd of sex sites viewers tend to be females and 35per cent of most internet downloads tend to be linked to pornography.

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

… while one fourth of respondents never ever see pornography, 59% watch it someone to five times each week, and 16per cent six or more occasions. Both males and females enjoy it – around three-out of 5 see it at least once weekly, no matter sex. Divisions take place during the extremes of use: 90per cent of individuals who never view porn tend to be ladies, while 90% of people who observe grot significantly more than 11 times weekly tend to be males. Put one other way, although many women engage one or more times per week, just 4percent do this six or even more occasions each week, weighed against 60% of men exactly who view it nearly every day or more.

Whenever we requested the survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?”, 87% of the who responded the question answered for the affirmative. Therefore currently we are revealing figures that are extraordinarily greater than earlier studies show. Of those whom eat porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent did so once weekly or more. Although not all that is actually conventional pornography.

What sort of smut would queer women consume?

Dazed Digital learned that
“the average straight-identifying girl is actually much more expected to enjoy girl-on-girl than the normal right man is always to see boy-on-boy.” They discovered “directly ladies’ use of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: merely homosexual or bisexual women observe more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered comparable figures
. These a few of many studies with lit up the less-than-direct union females of most orientations have actually with all the porn they see on the style of gender they actually have actually (or want).

A research on the porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists discovered the vast majority of females “didn’t care for girl-on-girl porno, claiming they discovered the movies unrealistic and plainly made by and for right males. As an alternative, lots of lesbians are interested in sexual movies portraying two guys getting hired on.” The scientists, in accordance with various other study about subject, affirmed that “women are apt to have a lot more sensual plasticity than males — that’s, they may be turned-on by a wider different situations.”

Within our study, we made a significant difference between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porno — the kind produced by queer females for queer females (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Container
) as well as the sort produced by directly folks for directly folks (age.g., pretty much everything else). We discovered the previous was more common compared to latter — and, plus, many queer ladies favor enjoying straight porn or homosexual male pornography over lesbian pornography made by/for straight men and women.

The information we’re gonna mention now could be garnered through the 87.05percent of respondents which answered “yes” to “do you consumer porn/erotica/smut in any kind?” The 12.95per cent who responded “no” were not asked questions regarding specific porno behaviors. The 2,471 human beings whom skipped practical question and as a consequence found on their own on the “what sorts of pornography do you really like” web page since they failed to state “no,” which may’ve induced the survey to automatically skip that page, aren’t incorporated, since they’re mysterious unicorns with concerns, expectations and needs beyond my personal abilities to discern. By their responses regarding porn-liking web page, many of them would actually digest smut but just don’t feel just like answering the prior concern, so it’s not secure to state that skipping the question = responding to “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they didn’t respond to no. But they didn’t answer yes!

. It’s not secure to state something about all of them whatsoever, so we’re simply going to pluck all of them out of the party completely for the purposes of this analysis. So, take it with a grain of sodium, but, no matter, these figures perform fit more or less completely with answers to previous necessary questions about porn, very possibly a little grain of sodium.

The information below originates from the

5,277 participants which helpfully responded “yes” on question “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in every form?”

Thus let’s talk about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

Its unsurprising that erotica reading is really well-known amongst queer females for some reasons. First of all: since it is at this time much more popular than before amongst women in general. In fact,
a 2012 British survey by Dottybingo.com
shared 91 per cent of females having study a minumum of one erotic guide, and 43 percent said they recommended checking out about intercourse to having it. That survey ended up being inspired by

50 Tones of Gray

, of course, a g-dawful guide that started as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of many best-selling publications of all time.

This gives us to the 2nd explanation these figures are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic at first became popular as a way for enthusiasts (typically ladies) to explore male/male

Star Trek

pairings the show itself could not enable, and queer females have flocked in droves carry out the category. In addition to reading male/male pairings, queer women use fanfic to
tell tales towards female/female pairings
just who link intimately onscreen for a price of
seldom
to
never ever
.

Into the 200 statements remaining in open-ended package for this concern, about half happened to be ensuring We knew that by “erotica” they created “fan fiction.” Listed here is a sampling of some of those solutions:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, almost solely
• Erotic comics are in reality the best, but I happened to ben’t certain where they can fit. They’re usually queer but not usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Does homosexual fanfiction about fictional wizards count
• Let us end up being real, its Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it really is gay lady fanfiction smut. If observing, it’s gay dudes becoming extremely enthusiastic with each other.
• It’s all fucking fanfiction and I am hooked, practically we have witnessed occasions during my existence where i might study specific gay fanfic for more than four-hours everyday.

Video

The format of right and gay male porn best amongst queer ladies is on the net video. Especially if you check lesbians as a remote class, it’s really the sole style of erotica/smut/porn that motivates a lot of enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography online, but just 25% of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42% of bisexuals browse straight erotica online. Although 38per cent of lesbians glance at queer erotic imagery online, merely 9percent at directly sensual images on line, when compared with 22percent of bisexuals and 16% of queers.

From this point ahead I’ll consider “lesbian/queer pornography made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” porno” and “lesbian porn made by/for direct individuals”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Would be the variety of direct pornography watchers too high because therefore numerous study respondents you should not always identify to be specifically keen on women? Type of, but that is maybe not the story. These are typically those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians who view video view Q4Q pornography at almost the same prices, starting from 66per cent – 67percent.
• Bisexuals are most likely to look at right porn — 54per cent of these perform, compared to 32percent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They’re additionally the most likely to watch Q4S porno — 38percent ones carry out, versus 33% of queers and 29per cent of lesbians.
• Queers who watch video are most likely to view homosexual male porno — 36percent of these carry out, in comparison to around 32per cent for bisexuals and lesbians.

Thus, although bisexual women tend to be more inclined to look at direct porno than lesbians are, they can be not really the only ones viewing it. Controversial sex guidance columnist Dan Savage admits that their comprehension of just who watches what sort of porn expands only thus far,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my personal nice and orderly porno market.” Sorry not sorry, Dan!

I think it really is relatively common knowledge why queer women dislike phony lesbian porn, but, briefly: but not most of the ladies who took the sex survey volunteered this information on their own, there is no lack of lesbians on the web speaking about their particular inclination for directly or homosexual male porno (
or authors searching for responses about it
) providing explanations want:

• “I have found lesbian porn is usually focused for direct guys and they’re perhaps not arousing. I in some way prefer directly porn.”
• “Lesbian porno is merely very artificial as well as how very long some of them have long fingernails UGH! general i generally watch directly porn. Now if its direct porno i just pay attention to the feminine. It may get me heading like hell.”
• “Lesbian porn is much too tacky in my situation and not even close to the truth that I have found it tough to watch. Not claiming straight pornography is actually any longer real but not often quite as tacky.”
• “while i favor (right porno) to lesbian porno, i am always studying the lady heading “she’s good celebrity. Enabling him consider this woman is appreciating it.  And lesbian porno provides men written all-around it; it seems like the stars don’t want to be doing what they are doing.”

Some estimates from your own survey-takers:

• I mostly like fat pornography. If it was actually simpler to find making for by queers, I would view that, nonetheless it scarcely is out there.
• I do not view lesbian pornography since I is only able to discover misogynist movies created for straight men, which I look for offending.
• I like to view a woman acquiring facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

Thus, that apart, I’m more interested in speaking about exactly why 53per cent of all women who are aware of and view actual queer pornography

in addition

view direct porno and why 41percent of lesbian-identified women view right porn. See, absolutely nothing drives me personally peanuts faster than somebody claiming that a “real lesbian” would not get switched on by straight porno — this is certainly TOTAL BANANAS. Although some queer women who watch straight porno tend to be keen on men and want to sleep together with them, many of them are not, and a female’s preference for right porn should never cast any question on her reported homosexuality.

We cross-checked multiple facets, for example get older, work standing, affinity for kink, intimate experience and sex demonstration, to find out if those had an impression with this field of preference and nothing stood down. Therefore, my concepts are listed below:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl porno expenses cash and free girl-on-girl porno sucks:
  
  Good porno by queer females for queer ladies often needs payment (whilst should!). No person are able to afford it, desires purchase it, or feels comfortable doing so, and choice — the sort of “lesbian” porn found free-of-charge on sites like PornHub and RedTube — is lacking, to say the least. Just what exactly’s remaining? Right video game porn gay male porn!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Versatile:
  
  As mentioned earlier on this page, women react sexually to all the types things that tend to be not related to their sexual orientation. A lot of us just who favor females still have switched on by straight pornography. You never know exactly why. It is exactly what really!
• 
  Normative beauty expectations:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno will feature queers with a variety of body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts etc. That is element of what exactly is so amazing regarding it — however for all of us. Some queers like pornography performers whom appear to be porno stars as opposed to porn stars whom look like their most favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Many sex sites customers enjoy porno which provides an escape using their genuine sex everyday lives, or utilize pornography to explore dreams they’ve got no desire to explore in actual life. Often seeing real queers perform away a lot more specific or taboo fantasies (particularly non-consent) just strikes as well close to residence.
• 
  Selection:
  
  There’s a wider variance of straight porn and homosexual male porn available to you for assorted fetishes or kinks one can be into. Additionally, there is more hardcore straight porn available to choose from, as soon as queers would view straight pornography, it is often explicit — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals observe hardcore directly porn, but only 12% of lesbians and 24% of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Imagining on their own since man:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but I heard numerous queer women claim that they imagine by themselves given that guy while watching right porno. Or that they like enjoying porn in which women humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  Many possess labeled movies of females masturbating (which came up from time to time into the commentary) as “directly pornography.”
• 
  There is more of it indeed there and it’s much easier to find.
  

In summary, women can be great creatures effective at being switched on by many different video porn if in case ladies went globally there’d become more research about any of it.

Finally, I would the same as to fairly share a number of the responses on “what sorts of porno do you ever watch” part to give you the complete breakdown of what people wished one to understand they were into:

• Where’s the option for tentacle porn? And for gender machines going nuts and offering their girl inventors limitless sexual climaxes? I am perplexed (about a lot of things).
• We observe the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the specific video clips. because I am going through my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in pornography.
• Frankly my personal fave is actually sex scenes from lesbian shows, not real Porn porno. Undecided just how to classify that above. We never ever view actual porn.
• Machines/dildo devices
• Residence movies
• Lesbian gifs, thank you tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is actually great
• Book in car to obtain bdsm situation a few ideas, not to ever exit
• Sexual comics are now the best, but I happened to ben’t certain where they can fit. They normally are queer although not usually. We read online and often print (smutpeddler)
• I mainly glance at unicamente pics and illustrations of women. I have no clue who means they are.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Digest?

1.9% of this whole smut-consuming class uses their own smut multiple times daily. 3.6% indulge one just about every day, 24.6per cent many times a week, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5per cent multiple times monthly, 12.3per cent once per month, 16.3per cent many times annually, and somewhat over two % eat it not as much as that.

So’s 5.5percent watching porno daily, which’s over the 3.8percent of females Cosmopolitan
located whenever they surveyed 4,000 females
(93percent which happened to be heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching habits. Additionally they found 32.5% of men enjoying porn regarding the everyday, so there’s that. But Cosmo was just inquiring about online porno movies, the get to ended up being larger — we included erotica and sexual images.

Exactly what aspects manipulate how frequently you eat smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we see various connection and sexual scenarios.

Plainly absolutely a fairly powerful relationship between how often you consume smut as well as how usually you are having sexual intercourse. These numbers perform suggest that co-habitation reduces volume of erotic-material-engagement, which implies why these couples aren’t ingesting porn collectively.

There is a direct union between consuming smut/erotica/porn and frequency of self pleasure — over 90 per cent of these just who masturbate several times each week or even more eat smut, when compared with somewhat over 50 percent of the whom masturbate significantly less than annually.

Of whole party — all 8,566 people — 55.3% said porn belongs to how you normally masturbate. 39.4per cent stated exactly the same of erotica.

In Conclusion

A lot of asked during the statements for home elevators where they might discover queer porn made for queers. I’d like to create that occur for you personally, because everyone enthusiastic about queer porno deserves feeling like this commenter on
You Want Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, whom typed:

“we visited queerporn dot television and I am only resting right here crying because i have not witnessed pornography with folks whom appear like me, exactly who seem like individuals I would in fact screw, just who fuck like I would personally fuck. It feels so real. We never discovered that We felt thus marginalized and objectified by mainstream porno, and then personally i think authenticated. Like, it’s fine that We have intercourse the way in which i actually do because see, there are men and women the same as me personally.”

You ought to read that post! Also these:

Go forth and luxuriate in whatever type smut you want to!