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 comprehensive answers (89per cent of which happened to be from men and women amongst the centuries of 18 and 36) and now we’re sharing the results with you, bit by bit. Formerly:

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Just How Much Smut Do Queer Females Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center document on porn-viewing routines with the United states men and women
shared that US individuals don’t appear to need to talk to the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing practices: merely 25% of men and 8percent of females exactly who observe online video fessed up to enjoying adult online videos. This seems extremely unlikely, but various other estimates aren’t much higher —

Therapy Today

says that their own “best guess”
is that “somewhere between 8per cent and 20per cent of females on-line go to porno websites with any consistency.” An
Australian learn of Health and relations in 2014
found 20% of females had considered pornography within the last year. This does not truly match with information harvested because of the internet alone,
like that
12per cent of web sites on the internet are pornographic and 40 million People in america regularly go to porn web sites. Or that certain 3rd of sex sites watchers tend to be ladies and 35% of all of the net packages are connected with pornography.

Dazed online, however, did a much bigger and revelatory survey of 10,500 women and men in 114 nations. They
developed greater numbers
:

… while a-quarter of participants never ever see pornography, 59% watch it someone to five times a week, and 16percent six or maybe more times. Men and women adore it – around three out of 5 view it at least once each week, no matter what sex. Sections take place within extremes of usage: 90% of people that never watch porno tend to be women, while 90% of people who observe grot above 11 occasions each week tend to be guys. Put another way, although many ladies indulge at least one time weekly, merely 4percent do this six or more instances per week, compared to 60percent of males whom watch it nearly every day or more.

As soon as we questioned our very own survey-takers “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in just about any form?”, 87percent of these who responded issue replied during the affirmative. Very currently we are revealing figures which happen to be extremely greater than previous studies show. Of those whom consume porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did therefore once per week or maybe more. But not all of that is actually traditional porn.

What kind of smut perform queer ladies take in?

Dazed Online unearthed that
“an average straight-identifying girl is far more very likely to see girl-on-girl versus typical direct man will be watch boy-on-boy.” They discovered “straight ladies’ consumption of lesbian pornography outstrips men’s: only homosexual or bisexual females see even more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered comparable figures
. Both of these the numerous studies that have illuminated the less-than-direct union females of all of the orientations have actually with the porno they observe on method of gender they really have actually (or want to have).

A research throughout the porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts discovered almost all of the women “didn’t look after girl-on-girl porn, saying they discovered the movies unrealistic and demonstrably made by as well as straight men. Rather, many lesbians are interested in erotic movies depicting two men getting hired on.” The scientists, in accordance with additional research with this subject, affirmed that “women generally have more erotic plasticity than guys — this is certainly, they can be aroused by a wider different circumstances.”

Within study, we made an essential difference between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porn — the kind created by queer women for queer women (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Hot Pink Box
) plus the sort made by direct men and women for right individuals (age.g., just about all else). We discovered the former had been far more prominent than the latter — and, also, numerous queer ladies prefer enjoying straight pornography or gay male pornography over lesbian pornography made by/for right men and women.

The info we’re gonna mention now’s garnered from 87.05% of participants which answered “yes” to “do you customer porn/erotica/smut in every kind?” The 12.95% whom replied “no” weren’t asked questions regarding certain pornography behaviors. The 2,471 humans just who skipped the question and as a consequence found on their own in the “what types of porno would you like” web page because they didn’t say “no,” which would’ve induced the survey to automatically skip that page, commonly included, as they are strange unicorns with worries, dreams and needs beyond my capabilities to detect. Judging by their own responses in the porn-liking web page, several would in fact digest smut but simply don’t feel answering the prior question, so it is perhaps not safe to state that missing the question = answering “no.” I mean, for real:

they did not answer no. Nonetheless did not answer yes!

. It’s not secure to say anything about all of them whatsoever, so we’re only going to pluck them from the group altogether for purposes of this evaluation. Very, go with a whole grain of sodium, but, whatever, these figures perform fit just about completely with answers to earlier necessary questions relating to pornography, so possibly a small whole grain of salt.

The data below comes from the

5,277 participants just who helpfully responded “yes” on the concern “do you eat porn/erotica/smut in virtually any kind?”

Therefore let’s speak about these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It is unsurprising that erotica reading is so common amongst queer ladies for a couple reasons. Firstly: because it’s at this time very popular than before amongst feamales in basic. Actually,
a 2012 Uk study by Dottybingo.com
announced 91 % of females having browse one or more sensual book, and 43% mentioned they desired reading about intercourse to using it. That survey had been prompted by

50 Shades of Gray

, of course, a g-dawful publication that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into among best-selling books of all time.

This delivers me to another explanation these figures are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic at first took off as a way for enthusiasts (primarily ladies) to understand more about male/male

Star Trek

pairings the express could not allow, and queer females have flocked in droves perform the style. Along with checking out male/male pairings, queer women make use of fanfic to
tell tales regarding female/female pairings
which link intimately onscreen for a price of
seldom
to
never ever
.

During the 200 feedback remaining from inside the unrestricted field because of this question, about half happened to be ensuring I understood that by “erotica” they meant “fan fiction.” Discover a sampling of some of these solutions:

• By “erotica” after all fanfiction, very nearly solely
• Sexual comics are actually my favorite, but I happened to ben’t sure where they fit. They are usually queer but not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does homosexual fanfiction about imaginary wizards matter
• Why don’t we be real, it really is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it really is homosexual lady fanfiction smut. If watching, it is homosexual dudes becoming extremely passionate with each other.
• It’s all drilling fanfiction I am also hooked, literally there have been times during my life in which I would study specific homosexual fanfic for longer than four-hours on a daily basis.

Video

The structure of right and gay male porno most popular amongst queer women is on the net video clip. Particularly if you consider lesbians as an isolated team, it’s really truly the only style of erotica/smut/porn that inspires many followers amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Eg, around 70per cent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals read lesbian erotica online, but merely 25per cent of lesbians, 32% of queers and 42percent of bisexuals look over straight erotica using the internet. Although 38per cent of lesbians take a look at queer sexual images online, merely 9per cent at directly sensual imagery on line, compared to 22% of bisexuals and 16per cent of queers.

From this point forward we’ll relate to “lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer folks” as “Q4Q” pornography” and “lesbian porn made by/for right individuals”  as “Q4S” pornography.

Are amounts of directly porn watchers too high because therefore a lot of review respondents never always determine to be exclusively interested in women? Kind of, but that is perhaps not the whole story. These are typically those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians whom see online video see Q4Q pornography at almost identical prices, which range from 66% – 67%.
• Bisexuals would be the likely to view direct porn — 54percent ones do, compared to 32per cent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They may be in addition the most likely to watch Q4S porno — 38per cent of these do, in comparison to 33% of queers and 29percent of lesbians.
• Queers exactly who view online video are likely to watch gay male porn — 36per cent of these carry out, compared to around 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

So, although bisexual ladies are more inclined to view direct pornography than lesbians tend to be, they are not the sole people watching it. Controversial sex information columnist Dan Savage acknowledges that their comprehension of who watches what kind of porn expands just thus far,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my personal nice and organized pornography universe.” Sorry maybe not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion it is fairly common knowledge the reason why queer ladies dislike phony lesbian porn, but, fleetingly: but not most of the women that took our very own intercourse review volunteered this info on their own, there is shortage of lesbian online speaking about their own preference for directly or gay male porn (
or experts looking for answers regarding it
) supplying details love:

• “I find lesbian pornography is normally focused for right dudes and they’re maybe not stimulating. I in some way choose right pornography.”
• “Lesbian porn is just thus artificial as well as how long many of them have long fingernails UGH! overall i mainly view straight pornography. Today if the directly porno I recently concentrate on the feminine. It would possibly get me personally going constantly.”
• “Lesbian porno is much too desperate for me so far from the fact that I find it tough to view. Perhaps not claiming right pornography is any more genuine but usually not quite as tacky.”
• “though i favor (directly pornography) to lesbian porno, I’m always studying the girl going “she’s a celebrity. Letting him believe she’s taking pleasure in it.  And lesbian pornography has actually men composed all-over it; it simply may seem like the performers should not be doing what they are undertaking.”

Some quotes from our own survey-takers:

• We largely like fat porno. If that was much easier to find and made for and by queers, i might see that, however it barely prevails.
• I don’t view lesbian porno since I have can just only find the misogynist video clips intended for direct men, which I discover offending.
• I enjoy see a woman acquiring facefucked… I swear i am a lesbian

Very, that apart, I’m keen on talking about the reason why 53% of most ladies who know and view genuine queer pornography

in addition

see directly pornography and why 41% of lesbian-identified females observe directly pornography. See, absolutely nothing pushes me personally nuts more quickly than somebody saying that a “real lesbian” would not get switched on by direct porno — definitely OVERALL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer women that observe direct porn tend to be interested in guys and wish to rest with them, most of them are not, and a lady’s choice for direct pornography should never throw any question on her stated homosexuality.

We cross-checked different facets, such as for example get older, work status, affinity for kink, intimate knowledge and gender demonstration, to find out if those had an impact with this field of inclination and nothing stood completely. Consequently, my concepts are listed below:

• 
  Real girl-on-girl pornography costs cash and free girl-on-girl pornography sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer females for queer ladies generally calls for repayment (as it should!). No person can afford it, desires to put money into it, or seems comfy doing so, and the alternative — the sort of “lesbian” pornography discovered for free on internet sites like PornHub and RedTube — is missing, as you would expect. So what’s left? Right pornography! Gay male porno!
• 
  Ladies Are Erotically Versatile:
  
  As talked about earlier in the day in this post, ladies react sexually to any or all kinds of things that are not related to their sexual direction. A lot of us who prefer ladies still get turned on by direct pornography. You never know the reason why. It is what truly!
• 
  Normative charm criteria:
  
  Queer-for-queer pornography can feature queers with numerous human anatomy kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, renewable lifestyle haircuts etc. Which is element of what exactly is so amazing about it — but not for everybody. Some queers prefer porno movie stars exactly who resemble porno performers instead porn movie stars who resemble their most favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as get away:
  
  Lots of sex sites buyers enjoy porno that gives a getaway using their genuine intercourse physical lives, or use porn to understand more about dreams obtained no aspire to explore in actuality. Sometimes witnessing real queers perform a lot more explicit or taboo fantasies (such as for instance non-consent) simply hits too close to house.
  
• 
  Variety:
  
  Absolutely a wider assortment of directly pornography and homosexual male porn on the market for assorted fetishes or kinks an individual might be into. There is a lot more explicit right pornography available to choose from, so when queers perform view right porno, it is commonly hardcore — 33% of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals observe hardcore direct porn, but just 12per cent of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals observe softcore.
• 
  Picturing by themselves while the man:
  
  This can be anecdotal, but i have heard so many queer ladies say that they imagine by themselves while the man as you’re watching direct pornography. Or they like viewing porn where women humiliate males.
• 
  Masturbation films:
  
  A lot of have labeled films of females masturbating (which came up several times within the responses) as “straight porno.”
• 
  There is more of it truth be told there and it is better to find.
  

Lastly, ladies are great animals capable of getting turned-on by some movie porno assuming females ran worldwide here’d become more investigation regarding it.

Finally, I would exactly like to talk about a few of the reviews regarding the “what type of porno do you view” part to give you the full summary of what individuals wanted you to definitely understand they certainly were into:

• In which’s the selection for tentacle porn? Or even for gender devices going nuts and giving their unique lady inventors endless sexual climaxes? I’m perplexed (about several things).
• We view the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the specific films. because I am going through my personal societally & familialy induced hangup about taking in porn.
• Genuinely my fave is actually intercourse scenes from lesbian shows, maybe not actual Porn porno. Not sure how exactly to categorize that overhead. I never ever view actual porn.
• Machines/dildo equipments
• House video clips
• Lesbian gifs, thanks a lot tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is really great
• Book in-car for bdsm situation some ideas, never to hop out
• Sensual comics are now the best, but I found myselfn’t positive where they can fit. They are usually queer however usually. I study online and sometimes printing (smutpeddler)
• We mainly check solamente pics and drawings of women. We have not a clue who means they are.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Ever Digest?

1.9% of this entire smut-consuming class uses their own smut several times each and every day. 3.6% indulge one every single day, 24.6per cent many times each week, 11.7percent once a week, 27.5percent many times monthly, 12.3per cent once a month, 16.3% several times annually, and only a little over two per cent eat it significantly less than that.

So as that’s 5.5per cent watching pornography daily, which’s more than the 3.8percent of women Cosmopolitan
found whenever they surveyed 4,000 ladies
(93per cent that had been heterosexual) regarding their porn-watching habits. They even discovered 32.5per cent of men watching pornography in the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was just asking about online porn video clips, our get to was actually larger — we included erotica and erotic imagery.

Just what aspects influence how frequently you consume smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we see different union and intimate scenarios.

Demonstrably absolutely a fairly strong relationship between how often you eat smut and exactly how often you are having sex. These figures perform claim that co-habitation lowers regularity of erotic-material-engagement, which implies why these partners commonly taking in porno collectively.

There’s a direct union between eating smut/erotica/porn and frequency of self pleasure — over 90 % of those who masturbate several times per week or higher eat smut, in comparison to somewhat over 50 % of those exactly who masturbate below one per year.

For the entire group — all 8,566 of you — 55.3% mentioned porno is part of how you typically masturbate. 39.4percent said equivalent of pornography.

To Summarize

A lot of asked from inside the commentary for info on where they were able to get a hold of queer porn intended for queers. I would ike to create that happen obtainable, because everyone thinking about queer porn deserves to feel such as this commenter on
Needed Assist: The Pursuit Of Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, whom composed:

“I went along to queerporn dot television and I am merely sitting right here whining because i have not witnessed pornography with folks whom resemble me, who seem like folks I would actually screw, who screw like I would personally bang. It seems very genuine. I never ever recognized that I believed thus marginalized and objectified by popular porn, and then I feel validated. Like, its ok that You will find sex how i really do because see, you can find individuals similar to myself.”

You need to study that blog post! Additionally these:

Go forth and savor whatever kind of smut you want to!