In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
A Perfect Lesbian Sex Survey
, prepared for all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We garnered over 8,566 complete replies (89per cent which were from people between the ages of 18 and 36) nowadays we are revealing the outcome with you, slowly. Formerly:

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Simply How Much Smut Perform Queer Females Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center report on porn-viewing behaviors on the US individuals
revealed your United states folks don’t seem to want to talk to the Pew analysis Center regarding their porn-viewing practices: merely 25percent of males and 8% of females exactly who see online video fessed to enjoying adult online videos. This looks wildly unlikely, but some other estimates are not much higher —

Psychology Nowadays

says that their particular “best guess”
usually “approximately 8% and 20percent of females online see porn websites with any regularity.” An
Australian research of health insurance and relations in 2014
discovered 20per cent of women had looked at pornography within the past 12 months. This does not really complement with data collected by internet itself,
like this
12percent of websites on the net tend to be adult and 40 million Americans regularly go to porno websites. Or any particular one 3rd of sex sites visitors are females and 35% of all internet downloads tend to be linked to pornography.

Dazed online, alternatively, did a much bigger and more revelatory review of 10,500 women and men in 114 countries. They
developed greater figures
:

… while one fourth of respondents never ever watch pornography, 59per cent view it one to 5 times weekly, and 16percent six or higher times. Both males and females like it – around three out of five see it at least once per week, aside from sex. Divisions occur during the extremes of usage: 90percent of people that never see pornography are ladies, while 90per cent of individuals who see grot above 11 times weekly are men. Put one other way, some ladies engage at least one time a week, only 4% do so six or maybe more times per week, compared to 60per cent of men which observe it almost every time or higher.

Once we requested the survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any type?”, 87percent of these which responded the question answered inside the affirmative. Thus currently we’re revealing numbers being extraordinarily greater than earlier research has shown. Of the exactly who eat porn/smut/erotica, 39per cent performed therefore once a week or even more. Not all of that is conventional porn.

What sort of smut perform queer females eat?

Dazed Online found that
“an average straight-identifying woman is far more very likely to view girl-on-girl than the typical direct man is always to watch boy-on-boy.” They found “right ladies’ usage of lesbian pornography outstrips men’s room: only gay or bisexual females see a lot more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered comparable numbers
. Those two a number of many surveys with lit up the less-than-direct commitment ladies of most orientations have using the porn they watch on kind of sex they really have actually (or desire).

A study throughout the porn-viewing habits of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found a lot of ladies “didn’t look after girl-on-girl porno, claiming they found the flicks unrealistic and plainly from and right men. Rather, many lesbians are interested in sensual flicks depicting two men getting it on.” The scientists, consistent with various other research on this subject, affirmed that “women tend to have much more sensual plasticity than guys — that is, they truly are fired up by a wider selection of circumstances.”

Inside our survey, we made a significant difference between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porno — the sort made by queer ladies for queer ladies (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Container
) therefore the sort made by direct folks for directly folks (e.g., just about everything otherwise). We discovered the previous ended up being much more preferred compared to latter — and, also, many queer women prefer viewing right porno or gay male porn over lesbian porno made by/for directly men and women.

The information we’re gonna explore now is garnered from the 87.05% of participants who replied “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in just about any type?” The 12.95per cent exactly who responded “no” were not asked questions relating to particular pornography behaviors. The 2,471 people which skipped issue and so found by themselves on “what style of porn do you really like” web page simply because they did not say “no,” which would’ve induced the study to immediately skip that page, are not included, since they are strange unicorns with fears, expectations and needs beyond my forces to detect. By their own responses about porn-liking web page, many perform actually eat smut but simply did not feel just like answering the prior question, so it’s perhaps not safe to declare that bypassing issue = responding to “no.” After all, for real:

they failed to respond to no. Even so they did not respond to yes!

. It isn’t safe to say everything about them anyway, therefore we’re merely going to pluck them out from the team entirely for any purposes of this analysis. So, take it with a grain of sodium, but, irrespective, these figures carry out fit more or less perfectly with answers to previous required questions relating to pornography, therefore perhaps a little grain of salt.

The info below is inspired by the

5,277 respondents who helpfully responded “yes” on concern “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?”

So why don’t we discuss these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

Its unsurprising that erotica reading can be so prominent amongst queer women for several reasons. Firstly: because it’s presently a lot more popular than ever before amongst women in general. Indeed,
a 2012 Uk review by Dottybingo.com
unveiled 91 percent of females having look over one erotic book, and 43 percent mentioned they desired checking out about gender to using it. That review was actually stimulated by

50 Tones of Gray

, of course, a g-dawful publication that started as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of several popular publications of them all.

This brings me to another cause these numbers are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic initially shot to popularity as a way for enthusiasts (primarily women) to explore male/male

Celebrity Trek

pairings the show itself could not allow, and queer women have flocked in droves perform some category. As well as reading male/male pairings, queer females use fanfic to
tell tales in regards to the female/female pairings
exactly who connect intimately onscreen at a level of
hardly ever
to
never ever
.

Within the 200 commentary remaining in open-ended package with this concern, about half happened to be making sure I understood that by “erotica” they required “fan fiction.” Discover a sampling of some of those answers:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, virtually entirely
• Sexual comics are now actually my favorite, but I wasn’t sure where they fit. They’re usually queer but not constantly.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about imaginary wizards number
• Why don’t we end up being genuine, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its homosexual woman fanfiction smut. If watching, its gay guys getting very enthusiastic together.
• Its all fucking fanfiction and I am addicted, practically there’s been times in my own life in which I would review specific gay fanfic for more than four hours per day.

Video

The structure of straight and homosexual male porno most well known amongst queer women is online video clip. Especially if you evaluate lesbians as a remote team, it is the actual only real format of erotica/smut/porn that motivates a lot of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. For example, around 70per cent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals read lesbian erotica on line, but just 25per cent of lesbians, 32% of queers and 42percent of bisexuals study right erotica on line. Although 38per cent of lesbians examine queer sexual images on the web, only 9per cent at right sexual imagery online, when compared to 22percent of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From here ahead we’ll consider “lesbian/queer pornography made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porn made by/for right folks”  as “Q4S” porno.

Would be the quantities of direct porno watchers so high because so lots of review respondents cannot necessarily recognize as being exclusively keen on ladies? Type of, but that is not the story. These are those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians exactly who watch video watch Q4Q pornography at almost the same prices, starting from 66per cent – 67percent.
• Bisexuals include almost certainly to look at right pornography — 54% of these perform, in comparison to 32% of queers and 41% of lesbians. They may be in addition more apt to watch Q4S pornography — 38% of them carry out, in comparison to 33% of queers and 29percent of lesbians.
• Queers which view online video would be the likely to view homosexual male porn — 36percent ones carry out, versus around 32per cent for bisexuals and lesbians.

Thus, although bisexual females are far more inclined to watch direct pornography than lesbians are, they truly are not really the actual only real people seeing it. Controversial intercourse advice columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that their knowledge of who watches what sort of porno expands merely up until now,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my personal cool and orderly pornography market.” Sorry perhaps not sorry, Dan!

I believe it really is pretty well known the reason why queer women dislike fake lesbian porn, but, shortly: while not a lot of the ladies who got the intercourse review volunteered this information by themselves, there’s no scarcity of lesbians online speaking about their inclination for straight or homosexual male pornography (
or article authors wanting responses about any of it
) supplying details like:

• “I find lesbian porn is normally focused for right guys and they’re perhaps not arousing. We in some way favor direct porno.”
• “Lesbian porn is merely therefore phony and how very long many have traditionally fingernails UGH! total i primarily observe right porn. Today if its direct porn I recently focus on the feminine. It would possibly get me going like hell.”
• “Lesbian porn is way too desperate in my situation and far from the truth that I’ve found it hard to watch. Maybe not saying right porn is actually anymore actual but not often quite as desperate.”
• “while I prefer (directly pornography) to lesbian pornography, i am constantly looking at the girl heading “she actually is a celebrity. Permitting him consider the woman is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian pornography features guys written all over it; it really seems like the actresses should not be doing what they are performing.”

Some quotes from our very own survey-takers:

• We largely like fat porno. If it had been simpler to get a hold of and made for by queers, i might view that, however it hardly exists.
• Really don’t enjoy lesbian porno since I have can only just select the misogynist video clips designed for right guys, which I select unpleasant.
• I love to see a girl getting facefucked… I swear i am a lesbian

Therefore, that aside, i am more interested in chatting about the reason why 53% of all of the women that know and watch genuine queer pornography

in addition

view straight porn and why 41percent of lesbian-identified ladies observe right porno. See, absolutely nothing drives me personally crazy quicker than a person declaring that a “real lesbian” won’t get aroused by right porno — that is OVERALL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer women that watch straight pornography tend to be drawn to males and would like to rest with them, many of them aren’t, and a woman’s inclination for straight pornography should never cast any doubt on her reported homosexuality.

I cross-checked many facets, such as for example age, employment standing, affinity for kink, sexual experience and sex speech, to find out if any of those had a positive change on this industry of choice and absolutely nothing endured around. For that reason, my concepts are listed below:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl porn prices money and complimentary girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Good porn by queer women for queer women generally needs repayment (because it should!). Not everyone can afford it, desires spend money on it, or seems comfy this, additionally the choice — the sort of “lesbian” porn discovered 100% free on web sites like PornHub and RedTube — is lacking, to say the least. Just what exactly’s kept? Straight porno! Gay male porno!
• 
  Women Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As talked about earlier in this post, ladies react intimately to any or all types things that are unrelated on their intimate positioning. Many folks who choose ladies nonetheless get turned-on by direct pornography. You never know the reason why. It is exactly what it’s!
• 
  Normative beauty requirements:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno has a tendency to feature queers with a variety of body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, renewable lifestyle haircuts and so on. That is element of what exactly is very incredible regarding it — not for everyone. Some queers like porn performers exactly who appear to be pornography stars in the place of sex sites movie stars who appear like their most favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as get away:
  
  A lot of sex sites buyers enjoy porn which provides a getaway off their real gender lives, or use porn to understand more about fantasies they usually have no want to check out in real life. Occasionally watching genuine queers perform down more explicit or taboo dreams (such as for example non-consent) simply strikes also near to house.
• 
  Range:
  
  Absolutely a wider variety of directly pornography and gay male porno available to you for many different fetishes or kinks an individual may be into. There’s also much more hardcore right porn on the market, when queers perform view directly porno, it is commonly hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals observe hardcore directly porno, but only 12percent of lesbians and 24percent of bisexuals see softcore.
• 
  Picturing on their own because the man:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but I’ve heard a lot of queer women point out that they imagine on their own as the guy while you’re watching right pornography. Or they prefer seeing porno where ladies humiliate men.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  Numerous possess classified films of women masturbating (which came up several times from inside the remarks) as “right pornography.”
• 
  There’s a lot more of it there and it’s really much easier to discover.
  

In closing, ladies are fantastic animals with the capacity of getting switched on by a number of video clip porno whenever women went the world truth be told there’d become more analysis about it.

At long last, I would similar to to talk about a number of the opinions regarding “what kind of porn do you really see” area to give you the full breakdown of what people wished one know they were into:

• In whichis the option for tentacle pornography? Or even for sex machines heading crazy and giving their unique girl creators endless sexual climaxes? I am perplexed (about several things).
• I watch the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the actual films. because I am getting over my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about consuming porno.
• In all honesty my fave is gender moments from lesbian programs, perhaps not actual Porn porno. Uncertain just how to categorize that overhead. I never ever view actual porno.
• Machines/dildo machines
• House movies
• Lesbian gifs, many thanks tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is actually good
• E-book in-car getting bdsm circumstance ideas, never to leave
• Erotic comics are in reality my favorite, but I happened to ben’t certain in which they can fit. They normally are queer not usually. I read on the internet and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• I largely consider solo pics and drawings of women. I’ve no clue just who means they are.

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

1.9% from the entire smut-consuming group eats their own smut multiple times every day. 3.6percent indulge one each day, 24.6% multiple times each week, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5per cent several times four weeks, 12.3% monthly, 16.3% multiple times a year, and somewhat over two % consume it lower than that.

To make certain that’s 5.5per cent observing porn each day, which’s over the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
located if they surveyed 4,000 ladies
(93percent of which happened to be heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching practices. In addition they found 32.5per cent of men viewing pornography on the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just asking about on the web porn movies, the reach ended up being larger — we included erotica and sensual images.

What aspects shape how many times you eat smut/porn/erotica? Let us check numerous commitment and sexual scenarios.

Obviously absolutely a fairly strong relationship between how often you take in smut as well as how typically you’re sex. These numbers do suggest that co-habitation decreases volume of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests that these partners are not eating porno collectively.

There’s an immediate commitment between eating smut/erotica/porn and frequency of self pleasure — over 90 % of these exactly who masturbate several times each week or maybe more digest smut, compared to a bit over 50 per cent of the exactly who masturbate around one per year.

Of the whole team — all 8,566 people — 55.3per cent said porno is part of the manner in which you normally masturbate. 39.4% mentioned the exact same of erotica.

In Conclusion

Numerous expected when you look at the responses for informative data on where they can find queer porn intended for queers. I would like to create that occur individually, because everyone thinking about queer porn is deserving of feeling such as this commenter on
Needed Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who typed:

“I decided to go to queerporn dot tv and I am only seated right here sobbing because i have never seen porno with individuals whom seem like me personally, exactly who appear to be men and women I would in fact shag, whom bang like i might screw. It feels so genuine. We never recognized that I felt so marginalized and objectified by main-stream porn, and then personally i think validated. Like, it really is okay that We have sex ways i really do because see, you’ll find people similar to me.”

You need to read that article! Additionally these:

Get forward and savor whatever particular smut you wanna!