87per cent Of Queer Women Can Be Towards Porn or Erotica, Not The Whole Thing Is Lesbionic | Autostraddle

In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Greatest Lesbian Sex Survey
, prepared for all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We earned over 8,566 total responses (89% of which were from people between your centuries of 18 and 36) and from now on we are sharing the outcome to you, little by little. Formerly:

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Exactly How Much Smut Would Queer Women Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center document on porn-viewing routines in the US people
shared your US men and women don’t seem to want to speak with the Pew analysis Center regarding their porn-viewing routines: merely 25% of men and 8% of females exactly who view online video fessed around viewing adult online videos. This looks very unlikely, but different estimates are not higher —

Therapy Nowadays

claims that their unique “best estimate”
is that “somewhere between 8percent and 20per cent of females on line go to pornography internet sites with any consistency.” An
Australian learn of health insurance and relations in 2014
found 20per cent of females had checked pornography within the past 12 months. This doesn’t actually complement with information collected of the internet alone,
like that
12% of websites on the web are pornographic and 40 million People in america regularly check out porno sites. Or that one 3rd of porn watchers are ladies and 35percent of all net downloads tend to be connected with pornography.

Dazed online, alternatively, performed a much bigger and more revelatory review of 10,500 men and women in 114 nations. They
created greater figures
:

… while a-quarter of respondents never ever watch pornography, 59percent watch it a person to 5 times per week, and 16per cent six or higher times. Men and women think its great – around three out of 5 watch it at least once weekly, regardless of gender. Divisions happen at the extremes of intake: 90% of people who never ever observe porn tend to be women, while 90% of people that observe grot more than 11 times weekly are males. Put one other way, many women enjoy at least one time weekly, merely 4per cent achieve this six or higher times a week, weighed against 60per cent of men exactly who view it nearly every day or maybe more.

Whenever we questioned our survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?”, 87% of the whom replied practical question answered inside the affirmative. So already we are showing numbers which can be extremely greater than past studies show. Of these just who take in porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent did very once per week or higher. Yet not all of that is traditional porno.

What kind of smut carry out queer women consume?

Dazed Online discovered that
“the typical straight-identifying woman is far more very likely to enjoy girl-on-girl than the average straight guy is to view boy-on-boy.” They discovered “straight ladies’ usage of lesbian pornography outstrips men’s room: just more than gay ladies view a lot more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found similar figures
. These a number of many surveys with illuminated the less-than-direct union women of most orientations have actually aided by the pornography they observe for the sort of intercourse they really have actually (or wish to have).

A study about porn-viewing practices of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found all the women “didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porno, saying they discovered the flicks impractical and clearly created by and for right guys. Alternatively, lots of lesbians are attracted to erotic films portraying two guys setting it up on.” The scientists, consistent with some other analysis on this subject topic, affirmed that “women are apt to have more erotic plasticity than men — which, they can be activated by a wider assortment of circumstances.”

In our review, we made an essential difference between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porn — the type produced by queer females for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Hot Pink Box
) and kind made by straight individuals for right folks (age.g., just about all else). We discovered the former had been much more common compared to latter — and, furthermore, numerous queer women prefer watching directly pornography or gay male porn over lesbian porno made by/for straight men and women.

The info we’re gonna discuss now could be garnered through the 87.05% of respondents which responded “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in any type?” The 12.95% just who replied “no” are not expected questions regarding particular porn behaviors. The 2,471 human beings whom skipped issue and as a consequence discovered on their own regarding the “what kind of porno do you like” page because they don’t say “no,” that will’ve induced the review to automatically miss that web page, are not included, as they are mysterious unicorns with concerns, hopes and desires beyond my capabilities to discern. By their unique answers about porn-liking web page, most of them carry out actually digest smut but simply didn’t feel just like answering the last concern, therefore it is not safe to say that bypassing the question = responding to “no.” What i’m saying is, for real:

they didn’t respond to no. Nevertheless they failed to respond to yes!

. It’s not safe to say anything about all of them after all, therefore we’re only gonna pluck all of them out from the group entirely the purposes of this evaluation. Therefore, go with a whole grain of sodium, but, despite, these figures would fit pretty much perfectly with solutions to earlier in the day necessary questions regarding porn, thus maybe a small grain of sodium.

The information below is inspired by the

5,277 participants exactly who helpfully reacted “yes” into the concern “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in any form?”

So why don’t we discuss these numbers!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It is unsurprising that erotica reading is really preferred amongst queer females for a few reasons. First of all: since it is presently very popular than before amongst feamales in basic. In reality,
a 2012 Brit study by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 per cent of women having look over one sexual publication, and 43% mentioned they desired reading about gender to presenting it. That review had been determined by

50 Shades of Gray

, of course, a g-dawful guide that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of many popular publications in history.

This brings me to the second cause these figures tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic at first took off for followers (largely females) to understand more about male/male

Star Trek

pairings the express could not allow, and queer ladies have actually flocked in droves carry out the genre. As well as reading male/male pairings, queer women use fanfic to
inform tales concerning female/female pairings
which connect sexually onscreen at a rate of
seldom
to
never ever
.

During the 200 comments kept during the unrestricted package for this concern, about half were making sure I understood that by “erotica” they required “fan fiction.” Listed here is a sampling of some of these responses:

• By “erotica” I mean fanfiction, practically exclusively
• Erotic comics are in reality the best, but I found myselfn’t positive in which they can fit. They’re usually queer yet not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards matter
• Let us be actual, it really is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it is homosexual girl fanfiction smut. If observing, it’s gay dudes becoming awesome passionate together.
• It’s all drilling fanfiction I am also hooked, literally there have been occasions inside my life where I would read direct gay fanfic for more than four-hours everyday.

Video

The structure of right and gay male porn most widely used amongst queer ladies is online movie. Particularly if you consider lesbians as a remote class, this really is the sole format of erotica/smut/porn that motivates a lot of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. As an example, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian erotica 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 see queer sensual images online, merely 9percent at directly sensual imagery using the internet, when compared with 22percent of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From here onward I’ll reference “lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer people” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porno made by/for straight individuals”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Include numbers of right porn watchers excessive because very lots of study respondents never fundamentally recognize as actually entirely interested in females? Type of, but that’s maybe not the tale. Normally those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians which observe online video see Q4Q porn at almost identical prices, including 66% – 67per cent.
• Bisexuals are the likely to look at straight pornography — 54percent of these perform, in comparison to 32per cent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They truly are additionally more apt to view Q4S porn — 38percent of those would, when compared to 33% of queers and 29percent of lesbians.
• Queers who see video include almost certainly to look at gay male pornography — 36percent of them would, when compared to about 32per cent both for bisexuals and lesbians.

Therefore, although bisexual women are far more inclined to look at directly pornography than lesbians are, they truly are not at all the sole ones watching it. Controversial gender guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his comprehension of just who watches what kind of porno stretches merely at this point,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my personal neat and orderly pornography world.” Sorry not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion it really is relatively public knowledge the reason why queer females dislike fake lesbian porno, but, temporarily: while not a lot of the women who got our sex survey volunteered these records independently, there isn’t any lack of lesbians online discussing their own inclination for right or gay male porn (
or article writers seeking solutions regarding it
) supplying explanations similar:

• “I’ve found lesbian porn is normally focused for right guys and they are maybe not stimulating. We for some reason prefer directly porn.”
• “Lesbian pornography is therefore artificial and just how long several have traditionally nails UGH! as a whole i mainly view straight pornography. Now if its directly pornography i just concentrate on the female. It can get me personally heading like hell.”
• “Lesbian porn is way too tacky for me personally so not even close to the reality that I have found it hard to look at. Maybe not saying straight pornography is any further real but not often quite as desperate.”
• “Despite the reality I like (direct pornography) to lesbian porn, i am constantly studying the woman heading “she’s an excellent celebrity. Allowing him believe this woman is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian pornography has actually males authored all over it; it may seem like the actresses should not do what they’re carrying out.”

Some quotes from your very own survey-takers:

• We mostly like fat pornography. If it ended up being more straightforward to discover and made for and also by queers, I would view that, it barely is available.
• Really don’t view lesbian porno since I have could only find the misogynist video clips created for direct males, which I discover unpleasant.
• I like to enjoy a woman acquiring facefucked… I swear i am a lesbian

Very, that aside, I’m interested in talking about why 53percent of all of the women who understand and watch actual queer pornography

additionally

see directly porno and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified ladies observe right porno. See, nothing pushes me personally nuts quicker than someone saying that a “real lesbian” won’t get activated by straight porno — that is FULL BANANAS. Although some queer women who see direct porno tend to be drawn to males and would like to sleep together, many of them are not, and a female’s choice for directly pornography should not cast any doubt on her mentioned homosexuality.

We cross-checked many different aspects, such as age, work status, attraction for kink, sexual knowledge and gender demonstration, to see if those had a visible impact about this field of inclination and absolutely nothing stood aside. Therefore, my concepts are listed below:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl pornography expenses cash and no-cost girl-on-girl porn sucks:
  
  Good porno by queer women for queer females frequently calls for payment (since it should!). Not everyone are able to afford it, really wants to purchase it, or feels comfortable this, in addition to option — the kind of “lesbian” porn discovered 100% free on websites like PornHub and RedTube — is missing, to say the least. Just what exactly’s left? Directly pornography! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Versatile:
  
  As discussed earlier in the day in this article, women react sexually to all or any sorts of points that tend to be not related on their sexual direction. Many which prefer females still get fired up by right pornography. You never know exactly why. It really is exactly what really!
• 
  Normative charm standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer porn has a tendency to feature queers with a variety of body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts etc. That is element of what is thus incredible about any of it — although not for all of us. Some queers prefer porn stars who look like porn stars instead sex sites movie stars just who look like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as escape:
  
  Many porn customers enjoy pornography that gives an escape off their real sex physical lives, or use pornography to understand more about dreams they’ve no need to check out in actuality. Occasionally watching real queers play completely much more specific or taboo dreams (such as non-consent) only strikes as well near residence.
• 
  Variety:
  
  Absolutely a wider variety of directly porn and gay male porn online for many different fetishes or kinks individuals may be into. There is more hardcore straight porno around, and when queers perform see direct porn, it is commonly hardcore — 33% of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals see hardcore direct porno, but just 12% of lesbians and 24percent of bisexuals see softcore.
• 
  Imagining themselves since the guy:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but I heard a lot of queer women claim that they imagine themselves since the guy while you’re watching right porn. Or that they like seeing pornography in which females humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation video clips:
  
  Numerous might have labeled movies of girls masturbating (which emerged once or twice within the responses) as “directly pornography.”
• 
  There’s a lot more of it indeed there and it’s much easier to discover.
  

Finally, women are great creatures capable of getting turned on by various movie porno of course ladies ran society truth be told there’d be more investigation about this.

At long last, I would like to express a number of the opinions from the “what method of porno would you view” area to offer the full a review of what folks wanted one know these were into:

• Whereis the choice for tentacle pornography? And gender equipments heading walnuts and giving their particular lady creators unlimited sexual climaxes? I’m perplexed (about several things).
• We view the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the movies. because I am getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about eating pornography.
• Truly my personal fave is sex scenes from lesbian shows, perhaps not genuine Porn pornography. Unclear how to classify that above. We never ever watch actual porno.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• Residence movies
• Lesbian gifs, thank you tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is truly good
• Book in-car receive bdsm situation some ideas, to not ever exit
• Sensual comics are in fact my personal favorite, but I becamen’t sure in which they can fit. They are usually queer however usually. We study online and often print (smutpeddler)
• We mainly consider unicamente photos and sketches of females. You will find no idea just who makes them.

Simply How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Would You Digest?

1.9percent for the whole smut-consuming group eats their unique smut several times per day. 3.6percent indulge one each day, 24.6per cent many times per week, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5% multiple times 30 days, 12.3per cent monthly, 16.3per cent many times per year, and slightly over two percent eat it below that.

So’s 5.5% observing porno daily, which’s over the 3.8percent of women Cosmopolitan
discovered whenever they surveyed 4,000 women
(93per cent that had been heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching practices. In addition they found 32.5% of males seeing porno from the daily, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only inquiring about on line pornography movies, all of our reach was larger — we incorporated erotica and sexual images.

Exactly what factors shape how often you eat smut/porn/erotica? Let’s look at numerous relationship and intimate situations.

Clearly there’s a pretty strong correlation between how many times you eat smut and just how usually you’re having sexual intercourse. These figures would suggest that co-habitation decreases volume of erotic-material-engagement, which implies these partners aren’t ingesting porn collectively.

There is a primary relationship between eating smut/erotica/porn and regularity of self pleasure — over 90 per cent of those whom masturbate many times a week or more consume smut, in comparison to somewhat over 50 per cent of these just who masturbate under one time per year.

Regarding the entire team — all 8,566 people — 55.3percent said porno belongs to the method that you often masturbate. 39.4% mentioned similar of pornography.

To Summarize

Numerous asked when you look at the commentary for home elevators where they might find queer pornography intended for queers. I would like to make that occur individually, because every person interested in queer porn deserves to feel similar to this commenter on
You Need Assist: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, whom penned:

“I went along to queerporn mark television and I am just resting here crying because I’ve never seen porno with individuals whom appear like me personally, which appear to be individuals i’d really bang, just who screw like i’d fuck. It seems thus actual. We never understood that We thought thus marginalized and objectified by mainstream porn, nowadays i’m authenticated. Like, its ok that i’ve gender the way in which i actually do because see, you will find folks similar to me.”

You really need to read that post! Also these:

Go forth and luxuriate in whatever form of smut you want to!