In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
A Perfect Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, available to all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We garnered over 8,566 total reactions (89per cent which happened to be from men and women between your centuries of 18 and 36) and from now on we’re revealing the outcome with you, slowly. Previously:

Simply How Much Smut Perform Queer Girls Digest?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center report on porn-viewing routines associated with United states men and women
announced that the United states individuals are not appearing to need to speak with the Pew analysis Center about their porn-viewing habits: only 25% of males and 8percent of females who observe online video fessed around enjoying pornographic videos. This seems extremely improbable, but additional quotes are not greater —

Therapy Now

claims that their “best estimate”
is “somewhere between 8% and 20per cent of women on line go to pornography internet sites with any regularity.” An
Australian research of health insurance and Relationships in 2014
discovered 20percent of women had looked at pornography within the last 12 months. This doesn’t truly match up with data harvested by the internet it self,
like this
12% of internet sites on the web tend to be adult and 40 million Us americans regularly see porn internet sites. Or that certain third of sex sites people tend to be ladies and 35per cent of all of the net packages are linked to pornography.

Dazed Digital, on the other hand, performed a much larger and a lot more revelatory review of 10,500 people in 114 nations. They
created higher numbers
:

… while 25 % of respondents never observe pornography, 59% view it anyone to five times a week, and 16% six or even more times. Men and women like it – around three-out of five view it at least once each week, despite gender. Sections happen at extremes of consumption: 90% of people who never ever see pornography tend to be women, while 90per cent of people who watch grot above 11 occasions each week tend to be men. Place one other way, many women indulge at least one time a week, just 4% achieve this six or higher times weekly, weighed against 60percent of males just who see it just about any time or higher.

Once we asked all of our survey-takers “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in every type?”, 87per cent of these which replied practical question answered during the affirmative. Thus currently we’re showing figures which happen to be extremely greater than past research has shown. Of those whom consume porn/smut/erotica, 39% performed therefore once weekly or maybe more. But not all of that is old-fashioned porno.

What type of smut do queer ladies consume?

Dazed Digital unearthed that
“the common straight-identifying lady is actually more more likely to view girl-on-girl as compared to average directly guy should view boy-on-boy.” They found “directly women’s consumption of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: just homosexual or bisexual ladies observe even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered similar figures
. These two the numerous studies which have lit up the less-than-direct commitment ladies of all orientations have actually because of the porn they watch with the particular sex they really have (or wish to have).

A research throughout the porn-viewing practices of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found a lot of the ladies “didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porno, claiming they discovered the flicks unrealistic and clearly from and for right guys. Alternatively, lots of lesbians tend to be attracted to sensual films portraying two men getting hired on.” The experts, in accordance with different study about this topic, affirmed that “women generally have much more sensual plasticity than guys — definitely, they are fired up by a wider number of things.”

Inside our review, we made a significant distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porn — the type made by queer females for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Package
) and kind created by straight people for right individuals (age.g., pretty much everything otherwise). We found the previous was far more common compared to the latter — and, additionally, many queer women prefer seeing straight porno or homosexual male pornography over lesbian pornography made by/for direct people.

The data we are gonna discuss now is garnered from the 87.05per cent of respondents just who responded “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in every type?” The 12.95per cent exactly who replied “no” weren’t expected questions about certain porn habits. The 2,471 individuals exactly who skipped issue and as a consequence discovered by themselves regarding “what variety of porn will you like” web page simply because they didn’t say “no,” that would’ve triggered the study to automatically miss that web page, aren’t integrated, as they are mystical unicorns with anxieties, hopes and desires beyond my personal abilities to discern. Just by their own answers in the porn-liking web page, several perform in fact digest smut but just didn’t feel just like answering the last question, so it is not secure to say that bypassing issue = answering “no.” After all, for real:

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

. It isn’t secure to state everything about them at all, so we’re merely gonna pluck them outside of the class altogether your purposes of this analysis. So, go on it with a grain of salt, but, no matter, these figures carry out fit almost completely with answers to earlier in the day needed questions regarding pornography, thus maybe a small whole grain of sodium.

The data below arises from the

5,277 participants whom helpfully reacted “yes” for the question “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?”

Thus why don’t we discuss these numbers!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It really is unsurprising that erotica reading is indeed common amongst queer women for several explanations. Firstly: since it is currently very popular than ever before amongst women in basic. In fact,
a 2012 Brit study by Dottybingo.com
announced 91 % of females having look over a minumum of one erotic book, and 43% said they recommended reading about sex to presenting it. That review ended up being encouraged by

50 Shades of Gray

, however, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into one of several popular guides at this moment.

This delivers us to the second cause these figures are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning took off as a way for enthusiasts (typically women) to understand more about male/male

Star Trek

pairings the show itself would never allow, and queer ladies have actually flocked in droves perform the genre. As well as reading male/male pairings, queer ladies make use of fanfic to
inform tales regarding the female/female pairings
who connect intimately onscreen for a price of
hardly ever
to
never
.

Inside the 200 commentary remaining when you look at the unrestricted box because of this concern, about 50 % had been ensuring I realized that by “erotica” they intended “fan fiction.” Here is a sampling of some of those answers:

• By “erotica” i am talking about fanfiction, very nearly specifically
• Sensual comics are now actually the best, but I happened to ben’t sure in which they can fit. They are usually queer but not usually.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about fictional wizards number
• Let’s be genuine, it is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its homosexual girl fanfiction smut. If watching, it’s homosexual guys being super enthusiastic with one another.
• It is all screwing fanfiction I am also addicted, virtually we have witnessed times within my existence where i’d read specific gay fanfic for longer than four hours a-day.

Online Video

The style of direct and gay male pornography most well known amongst queer females is online movie. Specifically if you view lesbians as a remote team, it is the actual only real structure of erotica/smut/porn that inspires many fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Including, around 70per cent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals study lesbian erotica online, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32% of queers and 42percent of bisexuals browse straight erotica on line. Although 38% of lesbians see queer sexual imagery internet based, just 9% at right erotic imagery using the internet, when compared with 22per cent of bisexuals and 16% of queers.

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

Are the numbers of straight porno watchers excessive because therefore a lot of survey participants cannot always determine as actually exclusively attracted to females? Type of, but that’s maybe not the complete story. These are typically those numbers:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians which watch online video view Q4Q porno at almost similar rates, starting from 66percent – 67%.
• Bisexuals would be the almost certainly to look at directly porno — 54% of those would, versus 32percent of queers and 41percent of lesbians. They can be also the most likely to watch Q4S porno — 38per cent of them carry out, versus 33percent of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers just who watch video are almost certainly to view gay male pornography — 36per cent of these carry out, in comparison to about 32percent both for bisexuals and lesbians.

Thus, although bisexual females tend to be more inclined to look at direct porn than lesbians are, they are not really truly the only people viewing it. Controversial sex information columnist Dan Savage admits that his comprehension of exactly who watches what kind of porno offers only up until now,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my cool and orderly pornography market.” Sorry not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion its relatively common knowledge the reason why queer ladies dislike phony lesbian porno, but, briefly: while not a lot of the women that took our very own intercourse study volunteered this information themselves, there is scarcity of lesbians online talking about their unique preference for straight or gay male pornography (
or article authors selecting responses regarding it
) supplying explanations love:

• “I’ve found lesbian porno is normally targeted for straight dudes and they’re maybe not stimulating. We somehow like direct porn.”
• “Lesbian pornography merely so fake and just how long a lot of them have long fingernails UGH! total i primarily view right porn. Now if the directly porno I recently concentrate on the feminine. It can get myself going in great amounts.”
• “Lesbian pornography is actually much too desperate for me and so not the reality that I have found it hard to look at. Perhaps not stating right porn is anymore real but not often very as tacky.”
• “The actual fact that i favor (straight porn) to lesbian porn, i am constantly looking at the woman heading “she actually is a actress. Letting him consider the woman is appreciating it.  And lesbian porn provides males composed throughout it; it seems like the stars should not be doing what they’re carrying out.”

Some rates from your very own survey-takers:

• We primarily like fat porno. If that was actually more straightforward to discover making for by queers, I would personally view that, nonetheless it hardly is available.
• I really don’t watch lesbian pornography since I is only able to get the misogynist videos intended for right males, that we look for unpleasant.
• I enjoy view a girl acquiring facefucked… We swear i am a lesbian

Thus, that aside, I’m interested in chatting about the reason why 53percent of most women that know about and see actual queer porno

additionally

view direct pornography and why 41per cent of lesbian-identified females watch right porno. See, nothing pushes me walnuts quicker than someone saying that a “real lesbian” won’t get turned-on by straight porno — that’s OVERALL BANANAS. Although many queer ladies who see right pornography are drawn to men and want to rest using them, a lot of them aren’t, and a lady’s inclination for straight pornography should never cast any question on the woman stated homosexuality.

We cross-checked a variety of aspects, such get older, work standing, affinity for kink, sexual knowledge and gender speech, to see if those had an impact on this subject field of inclination and absolutely nothing stood on. For that reason, my personal concepts are as follows:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl porno costs cash and cost-free girl-on-girl porn sucks:
  
  Good porn by queer women for queer females often calls for payment (as it should!). Not everybody are able to afford it, desires to spend money on it, or seems comfortable doing this, as well as the alternative — the type of “lesbian” porno discovered free of charge on web sites like PornHub and RedTube — is inadequate, to say the least. Just what exactly’s left? Straight porno! Gay male porno!
• 
  Ladies Are Erotically Flexible:
  
  As talked about early in the day on this page, ladies react intimately to sorts of points that are unrelated with their sexual orientation. Many which like ladies nevertheless get turned on by direct porno. That knows the reason why. It just is really what its!
• 
  Normative beauty standards:
  
  Queer-for-queer porn does function queers with a variety of human anatomy types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts and so forth. Which is part of what is actually so amazing regarding it — not for all of us. Some queers prefer porn performers exactly who appear like porn performers rather than sex sites stars whom appear like a common bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  A lot of sex sites customers enjoy porn which provides an escape from their actual sex lives, or use pornography to explore fantasies they usually have no want to explore in true to life. Occasionally seeing genuine queers perform around a lot more explicit or taboo fantasies (such non-consent) only hits as well near home.
• 
  Selection:
  
  Absolutely a wider variance of directly porn and gay male porno around for a variety of fetishes or kinks an individual can be into. Additionally a lot more explicit directly porn nowadays, when queers do see direct porn, it is commonly hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals see hardcore directly porn, but only 12% of lesbians and 24% of bisexuals observe softcore.
• 
  Picturing themselves while the man:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but i have heard many queer females say that they imagine on their own because man as you’re watching direct pornography. Or that they like viewing porno where females humiliate males.
• 
  Masturbation videos:
  
  Lots of may have categorized movies of girls masturbating (which emerged once or twice inside statements) as “straight porn.”
• 
  There’s more of it out truth be told there and it’s much easier to find.
  

Finally, women can be great animals with the capacity of getting turned on by many different video pornography whenever ladies ran the world there’d be much more study about any of it.

Ultimately, I’d just like to share with you some of the reviews from the “what particular pornography do you ever watch” part to offer the entire overview of what folks wanted one understand they were into:

• Where’s the choice for tentacle pornography? And sex devices heading crazy and offering their particular girl creators limitless sexual climaxes? I’m confused (about several things).
• We view the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the particular movies. because I am going through my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in pornography.
• Honestly my personal fave is gender moments from lesbian shows, not actual Porn porn. Undecided ideas on how to classify that above. We never ever see real porn.
• Machines/dildo devices
• Home movies
• Lesbian gifs, thanks tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” web page is actually good
• Book in-car getting bdsm situation tactics, never to exit
• Erotic comics are actually my personal favorite, but I wasn’t yes where they fit. They’re usually queer although not always. I browse online and often print (smutpeddler)
• I largely take a look at solo photos and drawings of females. You will find little idea which makes them.

www.lesbiemates.com/women-looking-for-women.html

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

1.9per cent in the whole smut-consuming team uses their unique smut multiple times everyday. 3.6percent indulge one just about every day, 24.6percent several times weekly, 11.7per cent once weekly, 27.5per cent many times 30 days, 12.3% monthly, 16.3% many times a year, and slightly over two percent eat it below that.

To make certain that’s 5.5per cent viewing pornography every day, which’s a lot more than the 3.8percent of women Cosmopolitan
located if they surveyed 4,000 women
(93% which happened to be heterosexual) about their porn-watching habits. They even found 32.5per cent of males watching porno on the day-to-day, so there’s that. But Cosmo was only asking about online pornography films, our reach had been bigger — we included erotica and sensual imagery.

Just what facets manipulate how many times you eat smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we take a look at numerous connection and intimate situations.

Demonstrably there is a pretty powerful correlation between how often you consume smut and just how usually you’re having sex. These numbers do claim that co-habitation diminishes frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests why these couples commonly consuming pornography together.

There is an immediate relationship between eating smut/erotica/porn and frequency of genital stimulation — over 90 % of the whom masturbate multiple times each week or maybe more eat smut, versus quite over 50 % of these whom masturbate under annually.

Regarding the whole class — all 8,566 people — 55.3percent stated pornography is part of the manner in which you usually masturbate. 39.4percent mentioned alike of erotica.

In Closing

Lots of asked during the opinions for informative data on where they may discover queer pornography created for queers. Let me generate that take place for you personally, because everybody enthusiastic about queer porno warrants to feel like this commenter on
You’ll Need Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, which typed:

“we visited queerporn dot television I am also just resting right here whining because I not witnessed porn with individuals which look like me, which seem like folks i might actually screw, which shag like I would personally fuck. It feels thus genuine. We never ever knew that We believed thus marginalized and objectified by conventional pornography, and now personally i think validated. Like, its fine that You will find gender the way I do because see, there are folks just like me personally.”

You ought to read that post! Also these:

Go forth and revel in whatever type of smut you want to!