87% Of Queer Women Can Be Into Porn or Erotica, Yet Not Everything Is Actually Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In March 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Gender Survey
, prepared for all « lady-types who sleep with lady-types. » We garnered over 8,566 full answers (89per cent that happened to be from folks between the years of 18 and 36) and then we are revealing the results along with you, slowly. Previously:

Just How Much Smut Would Queer Ladies Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing practices of this American people
unveiled that the US people don’t appear to need to speak with the Pew analysis Center regarding their porn-viewing habits: just 25percent of men and 8per cent of women which observe online video fessed doing enjoying pornographic online videos. This appears extremely improbable, but other quotes aren’t much higher —

Psychology Today

claims that their unique « best estimate »
is that « somewhere between 8% and 20% of females internet based go to porno sites with any consistency. » An
Australian Study of Health and Relationships in 2014
found 20% of women had looked over pornography within the past year. It doesn’t really complement with data gathered from the internet alone,
like this
12percent of web pages on the web are adult and 40 million People in america regularly see porn web sites. Or this one next of porn visitors are ladies and 35percent of internet downloads tend to be regarding pornography.

Dazed online, alternatively, performed a much larger and more revelatory survey of 10,500 both women and men in 114 countries. They
came up with higher numbers
:

… while a-quarter of participants never watch pornography, 59% see it someone to five times per week, and 16percent six or maybe more instances. Men and women enjoy it – around three out of 5 watch it at least one time per week, aside from gender. Divisions take place within extremes of consumption: 90per cent of individuals who never observe porno are females, while 90percent of individuals who view grot significantly more than 11 times each week are males. Place another way, many females indulge at least one time per week, merely 4per cent do this six or higher times a week, weighed against 60% of men which watch it just about any day or higher.

Whenever we requested the survey-takers « do you eat porn/erotica/smut in just about any type? », 87% of the whom responded practical question responded inside affirmative. Therefore currently we’re revealing numbers which can be extraordinarily higher than earlier research has shown. Of the which eat porn/smut/erotica, 39% performed so once weekly or maybe more. But not all that is old-fashioned pornography.

What sort of smut do queer females consume?

Dazed Digital discovered that
« the average straight-identifying girl is far more expected to watch girl-on-girl versus ordinary right man is view boy-on-boy. » They found « right women’s consumption of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: only homosexual or bisexual females see even more girl-on-girl. » Cosmo
discovered similar numbers
. Both of these a number of lots of surveys that have lit up the less-than-direct union females of orientations have actually using porno they see for the types of gender they really have (or desire).

Research in the porn-viewing routines of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists discovered all of the women « didn’t care for girl-on-girl pornography, claiming they discovered the films unrealistic and demonstrably made by and also for direct men. As an alternative, lots of lesbians tend to be drawn to sexual movies depicting two men setting it up on. » The experts, consistent with different study about this subject, affirmed that « women tend to have much more sensual plasticity than guys — that will be, they are switched on by a wider different situations. »

Within our study, we made an important distinction between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porn — the type made by queer ladies for queer females (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Package
) and also the kind made by directly folks for straight folks (age.g., just about everything otherwise). We found the previous was actually a lot more common versus second — and, in addition, numerous queer ladies choose viewing directly pornography or gay male porno over lesbian porn made by/for directly folks.

The information we are gonna mention now’s garnered from the 87.05% of participants which responded « yes » to « do you consumer porn/erotica/smut in just about any form? » The 12.95per cent who responded « no » are not asked questions regarding certain porno practices. The 2,471 people whom skipped the question and therefore found themselves regarding the « what sorts of pornography can you like » web page since they did not say « no, » which would’ve triggered the review to automatically miss that page, aren’t provided, because they are mysterious unicorns with anxieties, dreams and needs beyond my abilities to discern. By their own solutions regarding the porn-liking web page, most of them carry out in fact digest smut but just did not feel just like answering the last question, therefore it is not safe to say that missing issue = answering « no. » I am talking about, the real deal:

they don’t respond to no. Nevertheless they don’t respond to yes!

. It isn’t safe to say any such thing about them anyway, so we’re simply gonna pluck them outside of the class entirely your purposes of this analysis. Therefore, take it with a whole grain of sodium, but, whatever, these numbers do fit basically perfectly with answers to previous required questions about porn, thus possibly a little whole grain of sodium.

The data below originates from the

5,277 respondents which helpfully reacted « yes » into question « do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any type? »

So let’s discuss these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It really is unsurprising that erotica reading is really so popular amongst queer ladies for a few explanations. First of all: since it is presently much more popular than before amongst women in basic. In reality,
a 2012 British survey by Dottybingo.com
shared 91 percent of females having browse at least one erotic publication, and 43% mentioned they wanted checking out about gender to presenting it. That review was actually influenced by

50 Shades of Gray

, naturally, a g-dawful publication that began as Twilight fanfic and became among the many popular guides in history.

This gives me to the next reason these figures tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning became popular for enthusiasts (primarily women) to explore male/male

Superstar Trek

pairings the reveal would not help, and queer women have flocked in droves carry out the style. Besides reading male/male pairings, queer women utilize fanfic to
tell stories in regards to the female/female pairings
exactly who connect sexually onscreen at a level of
rarely
to
never
.

Inside 200 responses left in unrestricted box because of this concern, approximately half had been making sure We knew that by « erotica » they designed « fan fiction. » Here’s a sampling of several of those responses:

• By « erotica » What i’m saying is fanfiction, almost solely
• Erotic comics are now my favorite, but I becamen’t positive in which they fit. They normally are queer however usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards matter
• Why don’t we end up being actual, it really is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it really is gay woman fanfiction smut. If watching, it is gay dudes getting very enthusiastic with one another.
• It really is all fucking fanfiction I am also hooked, virtually we have witnessed occasions inside my life in which I would read direct gay fanfic for more than four-hours each and every day.

Video

The structure of straight and homosexual male porno best amongst queer ladies is on the net video clip. Particularly if you see lesbians as a remote party, it is the actual only real format of erotica/smut/porn that inspires numerous followers amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For instance, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography on line, but just 25per cent of lesbians, 32% of queers and 42% of bisexuals study right erotica on the web. Although 38percent of lesbians view queer sensual imagery online, merely 9percent at direct erotic images on the web, versus 22% of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From here onward we’ll consider « lesbian/queer porn made by/for queer folks » as « Q4Q » porn » and « lesbian porno made by/for straight folks »  as « Q4S » porn.

Are quantities of directly pornography watchers too high because so lots of study respondents you should not always identify to be specifically attracted to women? Kind of, but that is not the story. They’re those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians exactly who see online video view Q4Q porn at nearly similar costs, starting from 66percent – 67percent.
• Bisexuals would be the more than likely to watch right porn — 54percent ones would, in comparison to 32percent of queers and 41% of lesbians. They truly are in addition the most likely to view Q4S pornography — 38percent of those perform, compared to 33percent of queers and 29per cent of lesbians.
• Queers exactly who watch online video will be the probably to look at homosexual male porno — 36% of these would, compared to about 32% for both bisexuals and lesbians.

So, although bisexual females are far more inclined to look at direct porno than lesbians are, they truly are not the only types watching it. Controversial gender guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his knowledge of just who watches what kind of porno extends merely at this point,
lamenting that
« lesbians screw-up my cool and orderly porno world. » Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion its relatively common knowledge exactly why queer women dislike artificial lesbian porno, but, shortly: but not most of the women that got all of our gender review volunteered this info by themselves, there is no shortage of lesbian online discussing their own choice for right or gay male pornography (
or article authors seeking solutions regarding it
) supplying details love:

• « I find lesbian porno is generally targeted for right men and they are maybe not arousing. We somehow favor right pornography. »
• « Lesbian pornography is simply thus artificial and exactly how very long a lot of them have long fingernails UGH! as a whole i mostly watch straight porn. Now if the straight porn i just concentrate on the feminine. It would possibly get myself heading like crazy. »
• « Lesbian porn is far too tacky for me therefore not the reality that I have found it hard to watch. Perhaps not stating directly pornography is any further genuine but not often rather as desperate. »
• « The actual fact that I prefer (direct pornography) to lesbian porno, I’m constantly studying the woman going « she is a celebrity. Permitting him think the woman is enjoying it.  And lesbian pornography has guys composed all over it; it may seem like the stars don’t want to do what they’re undertaking. »

Some rates from our own survey-takers:

• We primarily like excess fat pornography. If it had been much easier to discover making for by queers, i’d see that, however it scarcely prevails.
• I don’t see lesbian pornography since I have could only discover the misogynist movies intended for direct guys, that I come across offending.
• I love to see a lady getting facefucked… I swear I’m a lesbian

So, that aside, i am keen on speaking about exactly why 53per cent of all ladies who are aware of and see real queer porno

additionally

watch direct porno and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified females watch straight porno. See, nothing pushes me peanuts faster than a person saying that a « real lesbian » won’t get fired up by directly porn — that will be COMPLETE BANANAS. Although some queer women who observe directly pornography tend to be interested in males and want to rest with them, many are not, and a lady’s inclination for direct pornography should never throw any doubt on her stated homosexuality.

We cross-checked a variety of factors, instance get older, employment condition, affinity for kink, sexual experience and gender demonstration, to see if those had a direct impact on this industry of preference and nothing endured down. Consequently, my concepts are as follows:

• 
  Actual girl-on-girl pornography costs money and free of charge girl-on-girl porn sucks:
  
  Great porno by queer ladies for queer ladies normally requires payment (since it should!). Not everyone are able to afford it, really wants to spend money on it, or seems comfy performing this, while the option — the sort of « lesbian » porno discovered 100% free on internet sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually missing, to say the least. What exactly’s remaining? Straight pornography! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Ladies Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As mentioned previously in this post, females react sexually to any or all sorts of items that are unrelated their sexual direction. A lot of us which prefer ladies nonetheless get switched on by straight pornography. That knows the reason why. It really is what it’s!
• 
  Normative beauty standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno sometimes feature queers with various human body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, renewable lifestyle haircuts and so on. That’s part of what is so incredible about this — but not for all. Some queers prefer porn performers exactly who resemble porno stars in place of porn movie stars which seem like a common bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as escape:
  
  Lots of sex sites people enjoy porno that offers a getaway off their actual gender physical lives, or usage pornography to explore dreams they’ve got no need to explore in actuality. Often witnessing real queers perform down more specific or taboo dreams (like non-consent) only strikes as well near house.
• 
  Range:
  
  There is a wider assortment of right pornography and homosexual male porn online many different fetishes or kinks a person might-be into. Additionally, there is much more hardcore straight porno nowadays, so when queers carry out see direct pornography, it is commonly hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals see hardcore directly porn, but just 12per cent of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals observe softcore.
• 
  Picturing by themselves since guy:
  
  This might be anecdotal, but I’ve heard countless queer females claim that they imagine by themselves because man as you’re watching straight pornography. Or that they like viewing porno where ladies humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation video clips:
  
  Lots of could have categorized movies of females masturbating (which came up a few times from inside the responses) as « direct pornography. »
• 
  There’s a lot more of it truth be told there and it’s really much easier to get a hold of.
  

In summary, women are fantastic creatures capable of being aroused by numerous movie porno while females went globally here’d become more research about it.

Finally, I’d exactly like to generally share some of the remarks regarding « what sort of porn do you actually view » area to provide you with the complete overview of what individuals desired you to definitely understand these people were into:

• In whichis the option for tentacle porno? Or for intercourse machines going peanuts and giving their own woman creators endless orgasms? I am confused (about many things).
• I see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the actual videos. because I am going through my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting porno.
• Really my personal fave is gender views from lesbian shows, perhaps not actual Porn porn. Undecided simple tips to classify that above. We never see genuine pornography.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• Home video clips
• Lesbian gifs, thanks a lot tumblr
• Tumblr « romantic pornography » web page is truly good
• Book in-car receive bdsm circumstance some ideas, not to log off
• Sensual comics are actually the best, but I wasn’t positive where they can fit. They’re usually queer but not always. We browse online and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• We primarily evaluate solo pics and illustrations of females. I’ve no clue whom makes them.

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

1.9percent on the whole smut-consuming group consumes their own smut several times per day. 3.6per cent indulge one daily, 24.6percent multiple times a week, 11.7percent once per week, 27.5% multiple times a month, 12.3percent once a month, 16.3% multiple times a-year, and somewhat over two percent consume it lower than that.

So’s 5.5percent watching porno daily, which’s above the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
found if they surveyed 4,000 women
(93percent that had been heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching routines. They even discovered 32.5per cent of males viewing pornography on the everyday, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just inquiring about using the internet porno videos, the get to ended up being bigger — we included erotica and erotic images.

Exactly what elements manipulate how often you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let us check different union and sexual conditions.

Demonstrably absolutely a pretty powerful correlation between how frequently you consume smut and exactly how often you’re having sex. These figures carry out declare that co-habitation lowers frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests these particular couples are not ingesting porn collectively.

There’s a primary union between eating smut/erotica/porn and regularity of self pleasure — over 90 percent of those which masturbate many times per week or more consume smut, when compared with slightly over 50 % of these which masturbate around one time per year.

For the whole team — all 8,566 people — 55.3% stated porn falls under the manner in which you often masturbate. 39.4per cent mentioned the same of pornography.

To Summarize

Numerous asked from inside the feedback for facts about where they may get a hold of queer porno made for queers. I’d like to make that take place for your family, because every person interested in queer pornography is deserving of to feel like this commenter on
You Need Help: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, which published:

« we went to queerporn mark television and I am just sitting right here weeping because I’ve never seen pornography with others whom appear to be myself, which appear like individuals I would in fact bang, whom screw like I would personally screw. It feels very actual. We never knew that I felt very marginalized and objectified by popular pornography, and then personally i think authenticated. Like, it really is okay that You will find intercourse how i really do because see, there are individuals the same as myself. »

You need to read that blog post! In addition these:

Go out and enjoy whatever style of smut you wanna!