87% Of Queer Women Can Be Into Porn or Erotica, Although Not The Whole Thing Is Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Greatest Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, open to all “lady-types just who sleep with lady-types.” We gained over 8,566 full replies (89% which were from people amongst the ages of 18 and 36) and then we are sharing the outcome along with you, bit by bit. Previously:

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Simply How Much Smut Do Queer Women Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing routines associated with the American folks
disclosed that the US individuals don’t seem to want to talk to the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing routines: merely 25percent of males and 8percent of women which view online video fessed as much as watching adult videos. This appears very improbable, but various other quotes aren’t greater —

Therapy Now

states that their unique “best guess”
would be that “somewhere within 8% and 20% of women internet based check out porn websites with any consistency.” An
Australian learn of health insurance and Relationships in 2014
found 20percent of women had looked over pornography in the last season. This won’t actually match up with information harvested by internet by itself,
like that
12% of sites on the web tend to be adult and 40 million Americans regularly see pornography sites. Or any particular one third of sex sites visitors are women and 35% of all of the internet packages tend to be regarding pornography.

Dazed online, having said that, did a much larger and much more revelatory study of 10,500 gents and ladies in 114 countries. They
developed larger numbers
:

… while 25 % of respondents never ever see pornography, 59per cent view it someone to 5 times each week, and 16per cent six or maybe more instances. Both women and men want it – around three out of 5 watch it at least once weekly, no matter what sex. Divisions occur within extremes of consumption: 90% of people that never see porno tend to be women, while 90per cent of people who see grot significantly more than 11 instances a week tend to be guys. Place another way, while most females enjoy at least one time per week, only 4per cent do this six or more times weekly, in contrast to 60% of men exactly who watch it nearly every time or higher.

Whenever we requested our very own survey-takers “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?”, 87per cent of the whom replied the question answered in affirmative. Therefore already we are revealing figures being extraordinarily greater than earlier research has shown. Of the which eat porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did thus once a week or maybe more. But not all that is traditional porn.

What kind of smut carry out queer females take in?

Dazed Digital found that
“an average straight-identifying lady is actually more expected to watch girl-on-girl than the average right man will be see boy-on-boy.” They discovered “straight ladies’ usage of lesbian porno outstrips men’s: only homosexual or bisexual females see a lot more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered similar numbers
. Both of these a number of a lot of surveys which have lit up the less-than-direct relationship females of all of the orientations have using the porno they view into type of gender they actually have (or wish to have).

A research regarding the porn-viewing habits of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian researchers discovered a lot of women “didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porno, claiming they found the movies impractical and clearly made by and also for straight guys. As an alternative, lots of lesbians are attracted to sensual flicks portraying two dudes getting hired on.” The scientists, consistent with some other study about this topic, affirmed that “women generally have a lot more sensual plasticity than males — that’s, they truly are turned on by a wider selection of situations.”

Within our study, we made an essential difference between two different types of girl-on-girl porno — the type produced by queer women for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Juicy Pink Container
) therefore the sort created by straight men and women for straight individuals (age.g., just about everything else). We found the previous had been a lot more preferred compared to second — and, furthermore, a lot of queer females like viewing right porno or homosexual male porn over lesbian porno made by/for straight men and women.

The data we are gonna speak about now’s garnered from the 87.05per cent of respondents just who replied “yes” to “do you consumer porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?” The 12.95per cent whom answered “no” are not asked questions about particular pornography habits. The 2,471 human beings just who skipped practical question and therefore found themselves regarding “what particular porno can you like” page since they failed to say “no,” that will’ve induced the study to immediately skip that web page, aren’t integrated, because they’re mystical unicorns with worries, hopes and needs beyond my personal abilities to detect. Judging by their unique solutions about porn-liking page, many of them perform really consume smut but simply failed to feel like responding to the prior question, therefore it is perhaps not safe to say that missing practical question = responding to “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they failed to respond to no. Nonetheless didn’t answer yes!

. It isn’t really secure to say any such thing about all of them after all, therefore we’re simply going to pluck all of them out from the team entirely for any purposes of this evaluation. Therefore, take it with a grain of salt, but, despite, these numbers carry out fit almost completely with answers to earlier required questions about porno, very maybe a little whole grain of salt.

The info below arises from the

5,277 respondents exactly who helpfully reacted “yes” for the concern “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in almost any type?”

Thus why don’t we speak about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

Its unsurprising that erotica reading is really common amongst queer ladies for some factors. First of all: because it’s at this time very popular than before amongst women in common. In reality,
a 2012 Brit review by Dottybingo.com
shared 91 percent of females having study a minumum of one sexual guide, and 43% said they desired reading about sex to presenting it. That survey ended up being empowered by

50 Shades of Grey

, naturally, a g-dawful book that started as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of many best-selling guides of all time.

This brings me to the next explanation these numbers are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially took off as a way for fans (generally females) to explore male/male

Star Trek

pairings the reveal would not enable, and queer females have flocked in droves perform some style. Besides reading male/male pairings, queer women utilize fanfic to
inform stories in regards to the female/female pairings
just who connect sexually onscreen for a price of
seldom
to
never
.

When you look at the 200 remarks kept within the unrestricted box with this question, about half were ensuring I knew that by “erotica” they meant “fan fiction.” Discover a sampling of some of these responses:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, almost entirely
• Sensual comics are actually my favorite, but I wasn’t sure in which they can fit. They normally are queer however constantly.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does homosexual fanfiction about fictional wizards matter
• Let us end up being real, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its gay woman fanfiction smut. If viewing, it’s gay guys becoming super enthusiastic with one another.
• It really is all fucking fanfiction and I am addicted, practically there have been instances during my existence where i’d study direct gay fanfic for more than four hours every single day.

Video

The format of direct and gay male porn top amongst queer ladies is online movie. Particularly if you consider lesbians as a remote group, it is the actual only real format of erotica/smut/porn that inspires numerous enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Eg, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals read lesbian pornography using the internet, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42% of bisexuals study straight erotica on the web. Although 38% of lesbians look at queer erotic images web, merely 9% at directly erotic imagery online, when compared to 22percent of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From this point onward we’ll make reference to “lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer individuals” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porno made by/for right men and women”  as “Q4S” porno.

Would be the numbers of direct pornography watchers so high because therefore a lot of study participants never fundamentally identify as being specifically attracted to ladies? Type of, but that is perhaps not your whole story. These are generally those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians who see video see Q4Q porno at nearly the same rates, which range from 66% – 67%.
• Bisexuals include more than likely to watch right porn — 54per cent of these carry out, versus 32% of queers and 41percent of lesbians. They’re in addition more apt to look at Q4S porn — 38per cent of them would, in comparison to 33percent of queers and 29per cent of lesbians.
• Queers who view video are the almost certainly to view homosexual male porn — 36per cent of these do, in comparison to about 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

Very, although bisexual ladies tend to be more inclined to watch direct pornography than lesbians are, they truly are definitely not truly the only people watching it. Controversial gender guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his knowledge of who watches what kind of pornography offers just at this point,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my cool and orderly pornography market.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

I do believe it really is relatively public knowledge precisely why queer women dislike fake lesbian porn, but, temporarily: although not a lot of the women who took our gender review volunteered this information on their own, there isn’t any scarcity of lesbians online talking about their choice for right or homosexual male porno (
or article authors wanting responses regarding it
) supplying explanations like:

• “I’ve found lesbian porn is normally targeted for right dudes and they’re not stimulating. We in some way like right porno.”
• “Lesbian pornography is merely thus phony and just how very long a number of them have traditionally nails UGH! overall i mostly see directly porno. Today if its straight porn i just pay attention to the feminine. It can get myself heading constantly.”
• “Lesbian porno is actually way too tacky in my situation and not even close to the reality that I find it tough to view. Perhaps not saying straight pornography is more actual but not often quite as tacky.”
• “although I prefer (straight porno) to lesbian porno, i am constantly studying the woman heading “she actually is good actress. Letting him think she’s appreciating it.  And lesbian pornography features men composed around it; it appears like the stars don’t want to be doing what they’re doing.”

Some rates from our very own survey-takers:

• I largely like excess fat porn. If that had been better to discover making for by queers, i’d watch that, it barely is out there.
• Really don’t view lesbian pornography since I have can simply discover misogynist videos made for directly males, which I come across unpleasant.
• I love to see a lady getting facefucked… I swear I’m a lesbian

Therefore, that apart, I’m more interested in speaking about exactly why 53per cent of women that know and watch genuine queer porn

additionally

view directly porno and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified women view straight porno. See, nothing pushes me personally nuts faster than somebody saying that a “real lesbian” won’t get turned on by directly pornography — this is certainly OVERALL BANANAS. Although many queer women that observe straight pornography are attracted to guys and want to sleep using them, a lot of them aren’t, and a woman’s choice for straight porno must not throw any doubt on her mentioned homosexuality.

I cross-checked several facets, such as for instance get older, work condition, affinity for kink, intimate experience and sex speech, to see if any of those had an impact on this industry of preference and nothing endured down. Thus, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Actual girl-on-girl porn expenses money and free of charge girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer females for queer ladies normally needs repayment (as it should!). Nobody can afford it, really wants to purchase it, or feels comfortable doing so, in addition to option — the kind of “lesbian” pornography found at no cost on sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually missing, to put it mildly. What exactly’s kept? Right porno! Gay male porno!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Versatile:
  
  As mentioned earlier in this post, females react intimately to any or all forms of points that are unrelated to their intimate positioning. Most of us exactly who favor ladies nonetheless get turned on by right pornography. That knows why. It really is exactly what it’s!
• 
  Normative beauty expectations:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography tends to function queers with many body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts etc. That is element of what exactly is therefore incredible regarding it — although not for everybody. Some queers like pornography performers who seem like porn stars instead of porn performers whom appear to be a common bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as escape:
  
  Lots of porn consumers enjoy porn that provides a getaway from their real sex everyday lives, or use porn to explore fantasies they’ve no aspire to explore in real world. Sometimes witnessing genuine queers play aside a lot more explicit or taboo dreams (particularly non-consent) just hits also close to house.
• 
  Variety:
  
  There’s a wider variety of direct porno and gay male pornography out there for assorted fetishes or kinks an individual can be into. There is more hardcore straight pornography online, once queers would enjoy right porno, it is commonly hardcore — 33% of lesbians and 48% of bisexuals observe hardcore directly pornography, but merely 12% of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals watch softcore.
• 
  Imagining by themselves once the guy:
  
  This really is anecdotal, but I’ve heard a lot of queer women point out that they imagine on their own because guy while watching straight porn. Or they prefer enjoying porn where females humiliate males.
• 
  Masturbation video clips:
  
  A lot of could have labeled videos of females masturbating (which came up a few times inside the reviews) as “right porn.”
• 
  There’s a lot more of it here and it’s really better to discover.
  

In summary, women can be fantastic creatures capable of becoming turned on by many different movie porn of course, if females went the planet there’d be more research regarding it.

Finally, I would just like to talk about a number of the reviews in the “what type porno do you actually view” area to provide you with the total overview of what people wanted one understand they were into:

• In which’s the option for tentacle porno? Or for sex machines heading peanuts and giving their particular girl creators limitless sexual climaxes? I’m confused (about a lot of things).
• I watch the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the video clips. because I am recovering from my societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting pornography.
• Frankly my personal fave is intercourse views from lesbian shows, perhaps not actual Porn porno. Uncertain simple tips to classify that overhead. We never ever watch real porn.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• House video clips
• Lesbian gifs, cheers tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is actually good
• E-book in-car to obtain bdsm circumstance a few ideas, not to ever get-off
• Erotic comics are in reality my personal favorite, but I becamen’t certain where they fit. They’re usually queer although not constantly. We study online and sometimes print (smutpeddler)
• We mainly look at unicamente photos and illustrations of females. I’ve no clue just who means they are.

Simply How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Actually Consume?

1.9percent associated with the whole smut-consuming party consumes their smut multiple times every day. 3.6percent indulge one just about every day, 24.6per cent several times a week, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5% several times monthly, 12.3percent once a month, 16.3percent several times per year, and just a little over two % consume it not as much as that.

To make sure that’s 5.5percent watching pornography every day, which’s over the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
discovered whenever they surveyed 4,000 ladies
(93percent of which had been heterosexual) about their porn-watching habits. Additionally they discovered 32.5% of men enjoying porn from the daily, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just asking about on the web porn movies, our very own reach ended up being bigger — we incorporated erotica and erotic images.

Exactly what elements shape how many times you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let’s look at different relationship and intimate conditions.

Plainly there is a pretty strong relationship between how often you consume smut and just how frequently you’re having sexual intercourse. These numbers would suggest that co-habitation reduces frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests that these partners aren’t taking in porn collectively.

Absolutely a direct union between eating smut/erotica/porn and volume of self pleasure — over 90 percent of the which masturbate multiple times weekly or higher consume smut, when compared with some over 50 percent of these just who masturbate not as much as annually.

From the whole class — all 8,566 people — 55.3percent stated porn falls under how you often masturbate. 39.4per cent mentioned similar of erotica.

In Closing

Lots of asked inside the statements for facts about where they were able to get a hold of queer pornography designed for queers. I want to generate that take place for your needs, because every person contemplating queer porn is deserving of to feel in this way commenter on
You Will Want Assist: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, who composed:

“I went along to queerporn mark tv I am also merely sitting right here weeping because i have never seen porno with others exactly who seem like myself, who resemble people i’d actually bang, just who screw like I would personally shag. It seems thus actual. We never ever noticed that We believed so marginalized and objectified by main-stream pornography, and now i’m authenticated. Like, it’s okay that We have sex ways i really do because see, you will find people similar to me personally.”

You ought to study that article! Also these:

Get forth and revel in whatever kind of smut you want to!