In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Greatest Lesbian Gender Study
, open to all “lady-types which sleep with lady-types.” We earned over 8,566 total responses (89% that were from men and women within years of 18 and 36) and from now on we are revealing the outcomes along with you, bit by bit. Previously:

Just How Much Smut Would Queer Women Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center document on porn-viewing behaviors in the US folks
revealed your United states folks don’t appear to want to speak with the Pew analysis Center regarding their porn-viewing habits: merely 25per cent of men and 8percent of women exactly who view video fessed around seeing pornographic online videos. This looks wildly unlikely, but different estimates aren’t greater —

Psychology Now

states that their “best guess”
would be that “approximately 8percent and 20per cent of females online visit pornography sites with any regularity.” An
Australian research of Health and relations in 2014
discovered 20% of women had looked at pornography within the past season. This doesn’t really match up with data harvested because of the internet by itself,
like this
12per cent of web pages on the web tend to be adult and 40 million People in america regularly go to pornography web sites. Or that certain 3rd of porn viewers tend to be women and 35percent of most net downloads tend to be related to pornography.

Dazed Digital, however, did a much bigger and much more revelatory study of 10,500 gents and ladies in 114 nations. They
developed greater figures
:

… while one fourth of participants never ever watch pornography, 59per cent see it a person to 5 times per week, and 16% six or maybe more instances. Both males and females adore it – around three out of five watch it one or more times per week, no matter sex. Sections happen in the extremes of use: 90percent of people who never view porno tend to be women, while 90percent of people who view grot a lot more than 11 occasions weekly are guys. Place another way, many women enjoy one or more times each week, merely 4per cent achieve this six or even more instances each week, compared with 60% of men just who watch it almost every day or higher.

When we asked our very own survey-takers “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?”, 87percent of those just who responded practical question replied during the affirmative. Therefore currently we’re revealing numbers that are extraordinarily more than previous research has shown. Of those who eat porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent did therefore once weekly or maybe more. But not all that is standard porno.

What kind of smut do queer ladies eat?

Dazed Digital discovered that
“the average straight-identifying woman is a lot more prone to watch girl-on-girl as compared to ordinary right man is to watch boy-on-boy.” They discovered “direct ladies consumption of lesbian porno outstrips men’s: only gay or bisexual ladies watch even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered comparable numbers
. Those two the numerous studies having illuminated the less-than-direct union women of orientations have actually utilizing the pornography they observe toward method of gender they actually have actually (or desire).

Research on the porn-viewing practices of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts found the vast majority of women “didn’t care for girl-on-girl porn, saying they found the flicks unlikely and obviously from as well as for direct guys. Alternatively, numerous lesbians are drawn to sensual films portraying two dudes getting it on.” The experts, consistent with various other analysis on this subject topic, affirmed that “women tend to have much more erotic plasticity than guys — that’s, they are switched on by a wider assortment of circumstances.”

Inside our review, we made an important difference between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porn — the sort from queer ladies for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Juicy Pink Package
) additionally the sort created by right individuals for right folks (age.g., pretty much everything else). We found the previous was far more popular as compared to second — and, also, numerous queer women like enjoying straight porn or gay male pornography over lesbian porno made by/for directly men and women.

The information we’re gonna explore now is garnered through the 87.05per cent of participants exactly who answered “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in just about any form?” The 12.95percent whom answered “no” weren’t asked questions about particular porn practices. The 2,471 human beings just who skipped issue and so discovered by themselves from the “what variety of pornography do you really like” web page because they didn’t say “no,” which may’ve triggered the survey to instantly skip that page, commonly integrated, because they’re mystical unicorns with concerns, expectations and desires beyond my abilities to discern. Just by their particular responses regarding porn-liking web page, a lot of them perform actually consume smut but just failed to feel just like answering the last concern, so it’s maybe not secure to declare that skipping issue = answering “no.” After all, for real:

they didn’t answer no. However they failed to answer yes!

. It’s not secure to state everything about all of them after all, so we’re only gonna pluck them out from the team entirely your purposes of this analysis. Thus, take it with a whole grain of salt, but, despite, these figures carry out fit basically completely with answers to early in the day needed questions about pornography, therefore possibly a small grain of sodium.

The information below comes from the

5,277 respondents which helpfully reacted “yes” on concern “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in any kind?”

So let’s explore these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It is unsurprising that erotica reading is really popular amongst queer women for some reasons. Firstly: because it’s at this time more popular than ever amongst ladies in basic. In fact,
a 2012 Uk survey by Dottybingo.com
announced 91 percent of females having look over one sexual publication, and 43 percent said they recommended checking out about intercourse to presenting it. That study was actually stirred by

50 Shades of Gray

, needless to say, a g-dawful guide that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of many best-selling guides in history.

This gives us to another explanation these figures tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning shot to popularity as a way for enthusiasts (typically females) to explore male/male

Superstar Trek

pairings the express could not allow, and queer women have flocked in droves perform some style. Besides reading male/male pairings, queer females utilize fanfic to
tell tales towards female/female pairings
who connect sexually onscreen at a level of
seldom
to
never ever
.

During the 200 statements remaining inside open-ended box for this concern, about half happened to be making sure I realized that by “erotica” they suggested “fan fiction.” Here’s a sampling of some of these answers:

• By “erotica” I mean fanfiction, virtually solely
• Sensual comics are in fact my personal favorite, but I found myselfn’t sure where 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 genuine, it really is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it’s gay girl fanfiction smut. If observing, it really is gay dudes being awesome enthusiastic together.
• It’s all drilling fanfiction I am also hooked, actually we have witnessed times inside my existence where i’d read direct homosexual fanfic for longer than four hours each and every day.

Online Video

The format of direct and homosexual male porn hottest amongst queer females is online video clip. Especially if you view lesbians as an isolated group, it’s really the sole format of erotica/smut/porn that motivates a lot of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. As an example, around 70percent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian erotica on the web, but just 25% of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42percent of bisexuals browse straight erotica on line. Although 38per cent of lesbians take a look at queer sensual images internet based, just 9percent at direct sexual images on the web, in comparison to 22per cent of bisexuals and 16% of queers.

From this point onward I’ll make reference to “lesbian/queer pornography made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” porno” and “lesbian porno made by/for direct folks”  as “Q4S” porn.

Are the quantities of right pornography watchers excessive because thus numerous survey respondents cannot always recognize to be entirely attracted to females? Sort of, but that’s perhaps not the entire story. These are generally those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians exactly who watch online video view Q4Q pornography at nearly identical prices, including 66percent – 67per cent.
• Bisexuals are the probably to view directly porno — 54percent ones carry out, when compared to 32% of queers and 41% of lesbians. They are in addition more apt to view Q4S porno — 38% of those perform, in comparison to 33per cent of queers and 29per cent of lesbians.
• Queers whom observe online video would be the likely to look at homosexual male porno — 36percent of them do, when compared to around 32per cent both for bisexuals and lesbians.

Very, although bisexual females are more inclined to view directly porn than lesbians are, they truly are not really the only types enjoying it. Controversial intercourse guidance columnist Dan Savage admits that their comprehension of just who watches what type of porn extends just up until now,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my cool and orderly porno market.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion it is pretty common knowledge precisely why queer females dislike fake lesbian pornography, but, shortly: while not a lot of the women that got our gender survey volunteered this information themselves, there is no shortage of lesbians using the internet speaking about their choice for directly or gay male porn (
or people trying to find answers about this
) supplying explanations want:

• “I find lesbian porno is generally focused for right men and they are maybe not stimulating. I in some way prefer direct pornography.”
• “Lesbian pornography is merely thus fake and just how long many have long fingernails UGH! total i primarily watch directly porn. Today if the directly pornography I simply focus on the feminine. It would possibly get me personally heading in great amounts.”
• “Lesbian porn is actually much too desperate in my situation therefore not the fact that I have found it tough to view. Not stating straight porno is any longer real but not often very as tacky.”
• “And even though i favor (right porn) to lesbian pornography, i am usually taking a look at the girl going “she is a good actress. Allowing him think she actually is appreciating it.  And lesbian porno features males created everywhere it; it just may seem like the actresses don’t want to do what they are doing.”

Some estimates from our own survey-takers:

• I largely like fat porn. If it ended up being better to discover making for and also by queers, I would personally watch that, however it scarcely is available.
• Really don’t view lesbian porn since I can just only find the misogynist films created for right males, which I look for offensive.
• I like to enjoy a girl getting facefucked… We swear i am a lesbian

Thus, that apart, i am keen on speaking about why 53% of all women that know about watching actual queer porno

in addition

view straight porn and why 41per cent of lesbian-identified females observe directly pornography. See, nothing drives me personally nuts quicker than someone saying that a “real lesbian” wouldn’t get fired up by direct pornography — that’s FULL BANANAS. Although many queer ladies who observe directly pornography are interested in males and wish to sleep with them, most of them aren’t, and a female’s inclination for right pornography shouldn’t cast any question on the woman stated homosexuality.

I cross-checked many different elements, particularly get older, work condition, affinity for kink, intimate experience and gender presentation, to see if those had a direct effect with this area of inclination and absolutely nothing endured down. Consequently, my personal theories are listed below:

• 
  Genuine girl-on-girl porno costs money and complimentary girl-on-girl porn sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer women for queer females often needs payment (whilst should!). Not everybody can afford it, really wants to purchase it, or feels comfy this, while the choice — the kind of “lesbian” porn discovered free of charge on websites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually inadequate, as you would expect. Just what’s kept? Directly porno! Gay male porn!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Versatile:
  
  As discussed earlier in the day on this page, women respond intimately to sorts of things that are unrelated for their sexual direction. A lot of us just who favor women nonetheless have turned-on by direct porno. You never know precisely why. It just is what its!
• 
  Normative charm standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography sometimes function queers with a number of human body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts and so on. That’s section of what is actually thus amazing about this — not for all of us. Some queers favor porn movie stars whom appear to be porno performers in place of sex sites performers just who appear like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Many sex sites people enjoy pornography that provides a getaway from their actual gender physical lives, or utilize pornography to explore fantasies they will have no need to explore in true to life. Often witnessing actual queers perform down a lot more explicit or taboo dreams (including non-consent) only strikes also close to home.
• 
  Variety:
  
  There is a wider variety of directly porno and homosexual male porn online for assorted fetishes or kinks you might be into. There is a lot more explicit straight porno out there, as soon as queers do enjoy direct porn, it is often explicit — 33percent of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals view hardcore straight porno, but merely 12percent of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals view softcore.
• 
  Picturing on their own once the man:
  
  This will be anecdotal, but I’ve heard a lot of queer women claim that they imagine by themselves as man as you’re watching right porn. Or they prefer seeing pornography in which ladies humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation videos:
  
  Numerous have classified movies of females masturbating (which came up from time to time when you look at the opinions) as “directly porno.”
• 
  There is more of it out here and it’s really much easier to find.
  

In conclusion, women are fantastic animals capable of getting switched on by several video clip pornography assuming ladies went globally there’d be more research regarding it.

Ultimately, I would similar to to fairly share a few of the reviews from the “what variety of porn do you actually watch” section to give you the entire summary of what people desired you to definitely know these people were into:

• In which’s the option for tentacle porno? And for intercourse machines going crazy and providing their own lady creators unlimited orgasms? I’m puzzled (about a lot of things).
• We view the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the video clips. because i’m getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about eating porn.
• Actually my personal fave is actually sex moments from lesbian programs, perhaps not real Porn porn. Undecided ideas on how to classify that above. I never ever observe genuine porn.
• Machines/dildo devices
• Residence video clips
• Lesbian gifs, thanks a lot tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is actually good
• Book in-car attain bdsm circumstance ideas, never to leave
• Sensual comics are now actually the best, but I becamen’t sure where they can fit. They’re usually queer however constantly. We read online and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• I generally check solo photos and drawings of females. You will find not a clue just who makes them.

Just How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Actually Eat?

1.9percent in the whole smut-consuming party consumes their particular smut several times a-day. 3.6% indulge one each day, 24.6per cent many times weekly, 11.7percent once per week, 27.5percent several times 30 days, 12.3percent monthly, 16.3% several times a year, and somewhat over two per cent consume it lower than that.

In order for’s 5.5percent viewing pornography each day, which’s a lot more than the 3.8percent of females Cosmopolitan
discovered once they surveyed 4,000 females
(93% of which were heterosexual) about their porn-watching practices. They even discovered 32.5per cent of men viewing porn on the everyday, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only inquiring about online porn films, all of our reach was larger — we included erotica and sensual images.

What aspects influence how often you eat smut/porn/erotica? Let’s evaluate various commitment and intimate situations.

Plainly absolutely a pretty strong relationship between how often you take in smut and just how typically you are making love. These numbers do claim that co-habitation diminishes regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which implies these particular lovers commonly eating pornography with each other.

Absolutely a direct connection between eating smut/erotica/porn and volume of genital stimulation — over 90 percent of the whom masturbate many times per week or more digest smut, when compared to quite over 50 % of these which masturbate under annually.

With the whole class — all 8,566 people — 55.3per cent stated pornography is part of how you typically masturbate. 39.4% stated equivalent of erotica.

In Conclusion

Lots of asked from inside the statements for info on in which they were able to get a hold of queer pornography designed for queers. Let me create that occur for you personally, because everybody thinking about queer pornography deserves feeling such as this commenter on
You Will Need Help: The Pursuit Of Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, just who had written:

“we visited queerporn mark television I am also just resting right here whining because I’ve never seen porn with individuals just who appear to be me, whom appear to be folks i might really fuck, just who screw like i might screw. It seems very real. We never ever noticed that I thought so marginalized and objectified by main-stream porn, and today I believe authenticated. Like, it really is fine that You will find gender just how i really do because see, you’ll find people the same as me.”

You ought to study that blog post! Additionally these:

Get forth and revel in whatever type smut you wanna!