In March 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Intercourse Review
, available to all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We gained over 8,566 full responses (89% which had been from folks between your years of 18 and 36) and then we are discussing the results to you, slowly. Previously:

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Just How Much Smut Do Queer Women Digest?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing habits of the US men and women
announced your United states people are not appearing to need to speak with the Pew analysis Center regarding their porn-viewing behaviors: only 25percent of men and 8percent of women which watch video fessed around enjoying pornographic videos. This seems very unlikely, but various other estimates aren’t higher —

Psychology These Days

claims that their particular “best imagine”
is that “approximately 8percent and 20percent of females on-line see pornography web sites with any regularity.” An
Australian learn of Health and relations in 2014
discovered 20percent of women had viewed pornography within the last 12 months. It doesn’t actually match up with data harvested of the internet by itself,
like that
12percent of websites on the internet are pornographic and 40 million People in the us regularly check out porn websites. Or this 1 3rd of porn people are ladies and 35% of all net downloads are related to pornography.

Dazed online, having said that, did a much larger and much more revelatory survey of 10,500 men and women in 114 nations. They
came up with larger figures
:

… while a-quarter of respondents never ever see pornography, 59percent watch it someone to five times weekly, and 16per cent six or higher instances. Both males and females think its great – around three-out of five watch it one or more times weekly, irrespective of sex. Sections happen at extremes of use: 90per cent of individuals who never ever view porno are females, while 90per cent of individuals who observe grot a lot more than 11 instances each week tend to be males. Put another way, many females indulge at least once each week, merely 4per cent achieve this six or higher times per week, compared with 60% of males which view it almost every time or more.

Whenever we requested our survey-takers “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?”, 87per cent of the whom responded the question responded inside affirmative. So already we are showing figures which happen to be extremely greater than previous studies show. Of the who consume porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent did very once weekly or maybe more. Although not all that is standard pornography.

What type of smut would queer women consume?

Dazed Online found that
“the common straight-identifying lady is actually a lot more expected to watch girl-on-girl compared to average direct man is always to view boy-on-boy.” They discovered “direct ladies’ usage of lesbian porno outstrips men’s: merely homosexual or bisexual women see even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
found comparable figures
. These two several of many surveys with lit up the less-than-direct connection ladies of most orientations have actually together with the porno they observe on sort of gender they actually have (or wish to have).

A study throughout the porn-viewing habits of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian researchers discovered all of the women “didn’t care for girl-on-girl pornography, claiming they discovered the movies unlikely and obviously produced by as well as straight males. Alternatively, a lot of lesbians tend to be attracted to sensual movies portraying two men getting hired on.” The scientists, consistent with additional study with this subject, affirmed that “women tend to have more erotic plasticity than guys — that’s, they may be fired up by a wider assortment of situations.”

In our study, we made a significant distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porno — the type from queer ladies for queer women (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Container
) additionally the kind from right men and women for direct individuals (age.g., just about all else). We found the previous ended up being much more prominent than the second — and, moreover, a lot of queer ladies prefer viewing directly porno or gay male porn over lesbian porno made by/for directly folks.

The data we are gonna discuss now could be garnered from 87.05per cent of respondents which replied “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in any type?” The 12.95percent whom answered “no” weren’t asked questions regarding certain porn habits. The 2,471 human beings which skipped the question therefore found themselves regarding “what types of porn do you like” page since they didn’t state “no,” which will’ve induced the review to instantly miss that page, aren’t included, because they are mystical unicorns with anxieties, dreams and needs beyond my powers to detect. Judging by their responses regarding porn-liking web page, most of them perform in fact consume smut but just don’t feel responding to the prior question, so it’s perhaps not safe to state that missing issue = responding to “no.” I am talking about, for real:

they did not answer no. But they don’t answer yes!

. It’s not safe to say something about them anyway, so we’re simply going to pluck all of them from the group altogether for reason for this analysis. Therefore, take it with a whole grain of salt, but, regardless, these figures do fit more or less completely with solutions to previous necessary questions relating to porn, therefore perhaps a tiny grain of sodium.

The info below arises from the

5,277 respondents exactly who helpfully responded “yes” for the question “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in every kind?”

So why don’t we mention these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It’s unsurprising that erotica reading is really prominent amongst queer females for some factors. Firstly: because it’s currently much more popular than in the past amongst feamales in common. Indeed,
a 2012 British review by Dottybingo.com
disclosed 91 per cent of women having browse one sexual book, and 43% mentioned they favored checking out about sex to using it. That survey ended up being encouraged by

50 Shades of Grey

, naturally, a g-dawful book that started as Twilight fanfic and became one of many best-selling guides at this moment.

This gives us to another reason these figures tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially took off for fans (typically females) to understand more about male/male

Celebrity Trek

pairings the reveal would not allow, and queer females have actually flocked in droves carry out the category. Besides reading male/male pairings, queer women use fanfic to
inform stories about the female/female pairings
whom connect sexually onscreen at a level of
seldom
to
never ever
.

In the 200 reviews left within the unrestricted package because of this question, about 50 % had been guaranteeing I understood that by “erotica” they designed “fan fiction.” Here’s a sampling of some of these answers:

• By “erotica” after all fanfiction, very nearly solely
• Sexual comics are in reality my personal favorite, but I becamen’t certain in which they can fit. They normally are queer although not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about imaginary wizards number
• Let’s be real, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it is gay lady fanfiction smut. If watching, it’s homosexual dudes getting super passionate with one another.
• Its all drilling fanfiction I am also hooked, practically there were instances during my existence where i’d study explicit homosexual fanfic for more than four-hours every day.

Video

The structure of direct and gay male porn hottest amongst queer women is online video. Especially if you look at lesbians as an isolated class, this really is the only structure of erotica/smut/porn that encourages many fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Like, around 70percent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian erotica online, but just 25per cent of lesbians, 32% of queers and 42% of bisexuals look over straight erotica on the web. Although 38% of lesbians look at queer sexual images online, just 9per cent at straight sexual imagery on line, in comparison to 22percent of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From this point forward I’ll reference “lesbian/queer pornography made by/for queer individuals” as “Q4Q” pornography” and “lesbian pornography made by/for directly people”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Will be the variety of straight porno watchers excessive because therefore numerous survey participants don’t always determine as actually entirely drawn to ladies? Sort of, but that’s perhaps not your whole story. These are those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians exactly who watch video watch Q4Q pornography at almost identical rates, ranging from 66% – 67percent.
• Bisexuals are almost certainly to view right porno — 54% of them perform, when compared to 32percent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They truly are additionally the most likely to look at Q4S porn — 38% ones would, in comparison to 33per cent of queers and 29percent of lesbians.
• Queers whom observe online video are the probably to look at gay male porno — 36% ones do, compared to around 32percent for bisexuals and lesbians.

Therefore, although bisexual females are far more inclined to view directly porno than lesbians are, they’re not the only real types seeing it. Controversial sex guidance columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his knowledge of just who watches what kind of porno stretches only at this point,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw up my personal nice and organized porn world.” Sorry not sorry, Dan!

I believe it is pretty public knowledge precisely why queer females dislike fake lesbian porno, but, quickly: while not a lot of the ladies who took all of our gender survey volunteered these details by themselves, there isn’t any scarcity of lesbian online speaking about their own choice for straight or homosexual male porno (
or experts finding answers about this
) offering explanations want:

• “I find lesbian porno is normally focused for direct dudes and they are perhaps not arousing. I in some way like right porno.”
• “Lesbian porn simply so fake and exactly how long a lot of them have long fingernails UGH! total i mostly view straight porno. Now if the direct porno i just pay attention to the female. It may get me heading like crazy.”
• “Lesbian porno is way too tacky for my situation and so not even close to the truth that I have found it hard to watch. Maybe not claiming straight pornography is any further actual but not often very as tacky.”
• “while I prefer (directly pornography) to lesbian porno, i am always taking a look at the girl heading “she’s a beneficial actress. Allowing him believe she is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian porno has actually males written throughout it; it simply may seem like the stars should not do what they’re performing.”

Some rates from our own survey-takers:

• We largely like fat pornography. If it was actually simpler to get a hold of making for and also by queers, I would personally watch that, nevertheless scarcely is out there.
• Really don’t view lesbian pornography since I could only discover misogynist films designed for direct males, which I look for unpleasant.
• I enjoy enjoy a girl acquiring facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

Therefore, that apart, i am keen on speaking about why 53per cent of all women that know about and view genuine queer porn

in addition

view directly porn and just why 41percent of lesbian-identified women view directly porn. See, absolutely nothing pushes me crazy quicker than somebody claiming that a “real lesbian” would not get turned-on by direct porn — that’s FULL BANANAS. Although many queer ladies who watch directly pornography are interested in men and want to sleep together with them, most of them are not, and a lady’s inclination for right porno shouldn’t throw any question on the woman mentioned homosexuality.

I cross-checked several facets, including get older, employment condition, affinity for kink, sexual experience and gender presentation, to see if any of those had a positive change on this field of inclination and absolutely nothing stood completely. Therefore, my concepts are as follows:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl porn expenses money and free girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer ladies for queer ladies generally calls for repayment (because should!). Not everyone are able it, wants to spend money on it, or feels comfy doing so, and also the choice — the kind of “lesbian” pornography found for free on web sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually inadequate, to say the least. Just what’s left? Straight pornography! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Flexible:
  
  As mentioned previously in this post, females respond sexually to all or any types of things that are not related their sexual orientation. Many folks which like women nevertheless get switched on by straight pornography. That knows the reason why. It simply is really what really!
• 
  Normative charm requirements:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography has a tendency to function queers with many human body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts and so forth. Which is section of what’s so incredible regarding it — yet not for all of us. Some queers favor pornography movie stars exactly who appear to be pornography stars rather than porn stars whom appear like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as get away:
  
  A lot of sex sites customers enjoy pornography that provides an escape using their actual sex physical lives, or usage pornography to understand more about dreams they’ve no need to explore in actuality. Occasionally seeing real queers play aside much more specific or taboo fantasies (including non-consent) just hits as well close to home.
• 
  Variety:
  
  Absolutely a wider variance of right porno and homosexual male porno available to choose from for many different fetishes or kinks individuals might be into. Addititionally there is much more hardcore straight porn on the market, as soon as queers do view direct porno, it is often explicit — 33per cent of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals see hardcore right porn, but just 12% of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Picturing on their own due to the fact guy:
  
  This is anecdotal, but I’ve heard plenty queer ladies say that they imagine on their own since the man as you’re watching direct porno. Or they like watching porn in which ladies humiliate males.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Lots of may have classified films of girls masturbating (which came up several times for the statements) as “right porno.”
• 
  There’s a lot more of it here and it’s more straightforward to discover.
  

In closing, women can be great animals able to being turned on by a variety of video porno assuming females ran globally there’d become more study about this.

Eventually, I would the same as to share some of the remarks regarding the “what types of porno would you enjoy” area to give you the full summary of what folks wished you to definitely know they were into:

• In which’s the selection for tentacle pornography? And for intercourse devices going crazy and providing their own woman inventors limitless orgasms? I’m baffled (about lots of things).
• We see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the exact videos. because i’m recovering from my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about ingesting pornography.
• Really my fave is actually intercourse views from lesbian shows, not actual Porn pornography. Unclear how-to classify that above. I never watch real pornography.
• Machines/dildo devices
• House video clips
• Lesbian gifs, thanks a lot tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is actually great
• Book in car receive bdsm situation tactics, to not hop out
• Erotic comics are actually the best, but I becamen’t positive in which they fit. They normally are queer although not always. I browse online and often print (smutpeddler)
• I largely evaluate solamente pics and illustrations of females. I have not a clue just who makes them.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Digest?

1.9percent from the entire smut-consuming group uses their particular smut several times per day. 3.6percent indulge one every single day, 24.6% many times per week, 11.7percent once weekly, 27.5per cent multiple times four weeks, 12.3percent monthly, 16.3percent many times per year, and only a little over two percent take in it around that.

So as that’s 5.5percent viewing pornography each day, which’s more than the 3.8% of females Cosmopolitan
located if they surveyed 4,000 women
(93percent of which had been heterosexual) about their porn-watching habits. They even discovered 32.5percent of males watching porno in the day-to-day, so there’s that. But Cosmo was only inquiring about online pornography videos, the reach ended up being larger — we incorporated erotica and erotic images.

Just what elements influence how frequently you consume smut/porn/erotica? Let us have a look at various union and intimate circumstances.

Demonstrably there’s a pretty powerful relationship between how frequently you consume smut and how usually you are sex. These numbers perform suggest that co-habitation lowers regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests that these partners commonly consuming porno together.

There is a primary relationship between consuming smut/erotica/porn and volume of genital stimulation — over 90 percent of those just who masturbate many times per week or maybe more digest smut, compared to slightly over 50 % of these just who masturbate around one per year.

With the whole group — all 8,566 people — 55.3per cent stated porn falls under how you frequently masturbate. 39.4percent mentioned similar of pornography.

To Summarize

Lots of asked for the comments for information on in which they are able to get a hold of queer porn made for queers. Let me generate that take place for your family, because every person interested in queer porno warrants feeling along these lines commenter on
You’ll Need Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, whom published:

“we went along to queerporn mark tv and I am simply resting right here whining because i have never seen porno with others whom resemble me, just who resemble men and women I would in fact shag, whom bang like I would personally screw. It seems very genuine. I never discovered that I felt so marginalized and objectified by popular porn, now personally i think validated. Like, it is ok that We have sex how I do because see, there are individuals exactly like me personally.”

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Get out appreciate whatever sorts of smut you wanna!