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In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
A Perfect Lesbian Sex Review
, open to all „lady-types which sleep with lady-types.“ We earned over 8,566 comprehensive answers (89percent of which were from men and women amongst the centuries of 18 and 36) and now we’re revealing the results to you, slowly. Previously:

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Simply How Much Smut Carry Out Queer Women Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center report on porn-viewing practices from the American individuals
shared that American individuals don’t appear to want to speak with the Pew Research Center about their porn-viewing behaviors: just 25per cent of men and 8percent of women which observe online video fessed around watching adult videos. This seems extremely unlikely, but additional quotes aren’t greater —

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claims that their own „best guess“
is the fact that „approximately 8percent and 20% of females internet based see pornography sites with any regularity.“ An
Australian learn of health insurance and Relationships in 2014
found 20percent of women had checked pornography within the last year. This won’t really match with information harvested because of the net by itself,
such as that
12% of internet sites on the net tend to be adult and 40 million Americans regularly see porn internet sites. Or that one next of sex sites audience tend to be women and 35per cent of all net downloads are linked to pornography.

Dazed Digital, however, did a much larger and more revelatory review of 10,500 men and women in 114 nations. They
created larger numbers
:

… while a-quarter of participants never see pornography, 59% watch it a person to 5 times weekly, and 16percent six or even more occasions. Both males and females enjoy it – around three-out of five watch it one or more times a week, despite gender. Divisions take place from the extremes of use: 90% of people that never watch pornography are females, while 90% of people who view grot a lot more than 11 times per week are males. Place another way, although many women indulge at least one time a week, merely 4% achieve this six or more instances a week, compared to 60per cent of men just who watch it nearly every day or higher.

As soon as we questioned all of our survey-takers „do you consume porn/erotica/smut in any kind?“, 87percent of the who replied practical question answered for the affirmative. So currently we are showing figures that are extraordinarily raised above previous studies show. Of these who consume porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did very once a week or higher. Yet not all that is actually standard pornography.

What type of smut carry out queer females eat?

Dazed Digital discovered that
„the average straight-identifying lady is more very likely to view girl-on-girl compared to typical straight man should enjoy boy-on-boy.“ They discovered „direct ladies‘ use of lesbian pornography outstrips men’s room: merely homosexual or bisexual women view a lot more girl-on-girl.“ Cosmo
discovered similar numbers
. These two the numerous studies which have illuminated the less-than-direct commitment females of most orientations have aided by the pornography they see into types of gender they really have actually (or want to have).

A report regarding the porn-viewing routines of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts found the majority of the ladies „didn’t care for girl-on-girl porn, saying they found the flicks impractical and demonstrably from as well as for direct men. Instead, numerous lesbians tend to be attracted to erotic flicks depicting two guys setting it up on.“ The scientists, in accordance with additional analysis about topic, affirmed that „women tend to have much more sexual plasticity than men — definitely, they’re activated by a wider different situations.“

Within our study, we made a significant distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porno — the sort produced by queer women for queer women (e.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Hot Pink Box
) and the sort made by directly individuals for right people (e.g., just about all more). We found the former was actually much more prominent compared to the second — and, furthermore, a lot of queer women favor viewing direct porn or gay male porno over lesbian porn made by/for direct individuals.

The data we are gonna talk about now’s garnered from the 87.05% of respondents which answered „yes“ to „do you customer porn/erotica/smut in every form?“ The 12.95percent exactly who responded „no“ were not expected questions regarding particular pornography practices. The 2,471 individuals whom skipped issue therefore found on their own from the „what kind of porno would you like“ web page because they did not state „no,“ which would’ve induced the study to automatically skip that web page, are not provided, since they’re mystical unicorns with anxieties, hopes and needs beyond my forces to discern. By their own solutions throughout the porn-liking page, a lot of them perform really digest smut but simply don’t feel like responding to the prior concern, so it’s maybe not safe to say that bypassing the question = answering „no.“ I am talking about, for real:

they failed to respond to no. Nonetheless don’t answer yes!

. It isn’t safe to state something about them at all, so we’re only going to pluck them outside of the class altogether for the purposes of this evaluation. Therefore, go with a whole grain of salt, but, regardless, these numbers perform fit almost completely with answers to early in the day needed questions regarding porno, therefore perhaps a little grain of salt.

The data below comes from the

5,277 participants whom helpfully responded „yes“ toward question „do you consume porn/erotica/smut in just about any type?“

Very let’s discuss these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

Its unsurprising that erotica reading is indeed well-known amongst queer women for a couple explanations. Firstly: because it’s currently a lot more popular than before amongst ladies in basic. Actually,
a 2012 Brit study by Dottybingo.com
disclosed 91 percent of females having look over one or more sensual book, and 43 percent said they favored reading about intercourse to using it. That study had been empowered by

50 Tones of Gray

, however, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into the best-selling books ever.

This gives me to the 2nd explanation these numbers are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning became popular as a way for fans (generally ladies) to explore male/male

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pairings the express would never help, and queer ladies have actually flocked in droves do the genre. Along with reading male/male pairings, queer females utilize fanfic to
tell tales about the female/female pairings
exactly who connect intimately onscreen at a consistent level of
hardly ever
to
never ever
.

Inside the 200 remarks kept inside open-ended box for this question, approximately half were ensuring I knew that by „erotica“ they meant „fan fiction.“ Here’s a sampling of some of those solutions:

• By „erotica“ i am talking about fanfiction, almost specifically
• Sexual comics are actually the best, but I happened to ben’t yes in which they can fit. They normally are queer however always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards number
• Let us be actual, it’s Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it is homosexual lady fanfiction smut. If viewing, its homosexual dudes becoming extremely enthusiastic with one another.
• Its all drilling fanfiction and I am addicted, virtually we have witnessed times within my life where i might read explicit homosexual fanfic for over four hours every day.

Video

The structure of direct and homosexual male porn most widely used amongst queer women is on the net video clip. Particularly if you evaluate lesbians as a remote class, this really is the only real format of erotica/smut/porn that encourages lots of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Eg, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals read lesbian pornography using the internet, but just 25% of lesbians, 32percent of queers and 42percent of bisexuals read straight erotica using the internet. Although 38% of lesbians take a look at queer sexual imagery on line, merely 9per cent at direct sexual images on line, versus 22per cent of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From this point onward I’ll relate to „lesbian/queer pornography made by/for queer people“ as „Q4Q“ pornography“ and „lesbian pornography made by/for direct people“  as „Q4S“ porno.

Are variety of right pornography watchers excessive because very numerous survey participants never always determine as actually entirely keen on ladies? Kind of, but that’s perhaps not the entire tale. These are those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians who observe video watch Q4Q porn at almost the same costs, starting from 66per cent – 67%.
• Bisexuals will be the more than likely to look at directly porn — 54percent of those perform, compared to 32% of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They can be in addition more apt to view Q4S porn — 38percent of these would, versus 33per cent of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers who watch video are probably to watch gay male pornography — 36per cent of them do, versus about 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

So, although bisexual women are more inclined to view direct porn than lesbians tend to be, they may be not really truly the only people watching it. Controversial intercourse information columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that his understanding of exactly who watches what sort of porno extends merely thus far,
lamenting that
„lesbians screw up my personal neat and organized porno world.“ Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

I do believe it really is relatively public knowledge precisely why queer ladies dislike artificial lesbian porn, but, temporarily: while not most of the ladies who got our very own intercourse study volunteered these details on their own, there is lack of lesbians on the web speaking about their own inclination for directly or gay male pornography (
or experts looking answers regarding it
) providing explanations similar:

• „I’ve found lesbian porn is generally targeted for direct guys and they are perhaps not arousing. We for some reason prefer directly porn.“
• „Lesbian porno simply very phony and how very long many have traditionally nails UGH! as a whole i mostly view right pornography. Now if their straight pornography i just concentrate on the female. It could get me personally heading in great amounts.“
• „Lesbian pornography is much too desperate for me personally and thus definately not the reality that I have found it tough to view. Maybe not saying directly pornography is anymore real but not often rather as desperate.“
• „despite the fact that I prefer (directly porno) to lesbian pornography, i am usually taking a look at the woman heading „she’s an excellent celebrity. Letting him consider she actually is taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian pornography has actually men written all-over it; it seems like the actresses should not do what they’re carrying out.“

Some rates from our very own survey-takers:

• We typically like fat pornography. If it was actually more straightforward to get a hold of making for and also by queers, i might see that, but it hardly is available.
• I do not watch lesbian porn since I have can just only select the misogynist films created for right men, which I discover unpleasant.
• I like to enjoy a woman acquiring facefucked… We swear i am a lesbian

Thus, that aside, I’m interested in chatting about exactly why 53percent of all women who are aware of and watch real queer porn

additionally

view right porn and just why 41% of lesbian-identified ladies observe directly porn. See, nothing drives me nuts faster than someone saying that a „real lesbian“ would not get fired up by direct porn — that will be FULL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer ladies who see directly pornography are drawn to males and wish to rest using them, many aren’t, and a female’s preference for straight porn must not cast any doubt on the woman stated homosexuality.

We cross-checked several elements, like get older, work position, affinity for kink, sexual knowledge and gender presentation, to see if any of those had an effect about this industry of choice and absolutely nothing endured aside. For that reason, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Actual girl-on-girl pornography prices money and free girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Good porno by queer ladies for queer women typically requires payment (since it should!). Not everyone are able it, desires buy it, or feels comfy performing this, additionally the choice — the type of „lesbian“ pornography found free of charge on web sites like PornHub and RedTube — is lacking, to put it mildly. What exactly’s kept? Straight porno! Gay male pornography!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Flexible:
  
  As mentioned earlier on in this article, females react sexually to all sorts of points that tend to be unrelated for their intimate direction. Most of us exactly who choose women however have fired up by directly pornography. That knows precisely why. It really is really what really!
• 
  Normative charm expectations:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno has a tendency to feature queers with various body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternate lifestyle haircuts and so forth. Which is section of what is actually therefore wonderful about any of it — not for everyone. Some queers like porno performers just who appear to be porno performers in the place of porn stars which appear like a common bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Many porn consumers enjoy porn that offers an escape from their genuine gender lives, or usage porno to understand more about fantasies they have no need to check out in real life. Sometimes seeing real queers play around a lot more explicit or taboo dreams (such as for instance non-consent) simply hits also near house.
• 
  Range:
  
  There’s a wider assortment of directly pornography and gay male porno nowadays many different fetishes or kinks a person may be into. Addititionally there is more explicit straight pornography available to choose from, as soon as queers would enjoy directly pornography, it tends to be hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals observe hardcore straight porno, but merely 12% of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals see softcore.
• 
  Picturing by themselves due to the fact guy:
  
  This is certainly anecdotal, but I heard a lot of queer females point out that they imagine by themselves because the man while watching directly pornography. Or they like enjoying porno in which ladies humiliate males.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Lots of possess classified videos of females masturbating (which came up from time to time from inside the reviews) as „right pornography.“
• 
  There’s more of it indeed there and it’s better to find.
  

Finally, ladies are great animals effective at becoming turned-on by multiple video pornography while females ran the world there’d become more study regarding it.

At long last, I’d exactly like to share a few of the remarks regarding the „what sort of porn will you see“ area to give you the summary of what folks wanted you to understand they certainly were into:

• Where’s the selection for tentacle pornography? And gender devices heading crazy and providing their own woman inventors unlimited sexual climaxes? I’m baffled (about a lot of things).
• I observe the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the actual movies. because i’m getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about consuming porno.
• In all honesty my fave is sex moments from lesbian programs, not actual Porn pornography. Undecided simple tips to categorize that above. We never ever see actual porno.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• House films
• Lesbian gifs, thanks tumblr
• Tumblr „romantic pornography“ web page is really good
• Book in-car for bdsm scenario some ideas, to not leave
• Sexual comics are actually my favorite, but I becamen’t sure where they can fit. They’re usually queer but not constantly. We read online and sometimes printing (smutpeddler)
• I mostly consider solamente pics and illustrations of women. I have no clue whom makes them.

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

1.9per cent of this entire smut-consuming group consumes their smut several times on a daily basis. 3.6percent indulge one per day, 24.6% several times per week, 11.7% once per week, 27.5% several times monthly, 12.3% monthly, 16.3% several times per year, and only a little over two percent eat it below that.

So that’s 5.5percent viewing porno daily, which’s more than the 3.8per cent of females Cosmopolitan
located if they surveyed 4,000 women
(93per cent that happened to be heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching behaviors. In addition they found 32.5% of men viewing porno regarding the daily, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only asking about online porno video clips, our very own get to ended up being bigger — we incorporated erotica and sensual images.

What elements influence how often you consume smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we look at various connection and sexual situations.

Demonstrably absolutely a fairly powerful relationship between how frequently you consume smut as well as how frequently you’re having sex. These numbers would suggest that co-habitation decreases regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which implies why these partners aren’t taking in porno collectively.

Absolutely a direct connection between eating smut/erotica/porn and volume of genital stimulation — over 90 % of these exactly who masturbate multiple times weekly or even more eat smut, in comparison to a little over 50 % of these just who masturbate less than one per year.

From the whole group — all 8,566 of you — 55.3per cent said pornography falls under the way you frequently masturbate. 39.4per cent mentioned alike of pornography.

In Closing

A lot of asked within the statements for informative data on in which they were able to get a hold of queer porno designed for queers. Let me create that happen for you, because everybody enthusiastic about queer porno deserves feeling similar to this commenter on
You’ll Need Help: The Pursuit Of Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who blogged:

„I decided to go to queerporn mark television I am also only resting right here whining because I never seen porno with individuals exactly who resemble me, which seem like individuals I would personally really bang, just who shag like i’d screw. It feels thus actual. We never knew that I thought thus marginalized and objectified by popular porno, and from now on I believe validated. Like, its fine that You will find intercourse ways i actually do because see, you’ll find men and women exactly like me.“

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

Get out and enjoy whatever style of smut you wanna!