In February 2015, Autostraddle launched
A Perfect Lesbian Gender Survey
, ready to accept all “lady-types who sleep with lady-types.” We earned over 8,566 total answers (89per cent that happened to be from men and women within many years of 18 and 36) and now we’re sharing the results to you, piece by piece. Previously:

Simply How Much Smut Do Queer Women Eat?

In 2013,
a Pew Research Center report on porn-viewing habits of this United states men and women
announced that the American individuals don’t seem to need to talk to the Pew analysis Center about their porn-viewing habits: merely 25% of males and 8percent of females whom see online video fessed to watching pornographic online videos. This seems wildly unlikely, but different estimates are not a lot higher —

Therapy Today

states that their unique “best guess”
is the fact that “somewhere within 8% and 20percent of women online go to porn websites with any regularity.” An
Australian learn of Health and affairs in 2014
found 20percent of women had looked over pornography in the last season. This does not really match up with information gathered from the internet alone,
such as that
12per cent of sites on the internet tend to be adult and 40 million People in america regularly check out porn sites. Or that certain 3rd of sex sites audience tend to be females and 35% of all of the net downloads are about pornography.

Dazed Digital, in contrast, did a much bigger and more revelatory review of 10,500 people in 114 countries. They
developed higher numbers
:

… while a quarter of respondents never watch pornography, 59per cent see it a person to five times a week, and 16percent six or maybe more times. Men and women adore it – around three out of 5 see it at least once a week, regardless of gender. Sections take place at extremes of usage: 90percent of people who never see porno tend to be females, while 90percent of individuals who observe grot significantly more than 11 instances each week are guys. Put one other way, although many ladies engage at least once per week, merely 4% do this six or more instances weekly, compared with 60% of men whom watch it almost every time or more.

Once we requested our very own survey-takers “do you consume porn/erotica/smut in almost any form?”, 87per cent of those who replied issue replied for the affirmative. Thus currently we are revealing numbers which can be extraordinarily higher than past research has shown. Of these which take in porn/smut/erotica, 39percent did thus once per week or maybe more. Yet not all that is actually standard pornography.

What type of smut do queer females eat?

Dazed Digital unearthed that
“the typical straight-identifying lady is actually more expected to watch girl-on-girl than the average directly man will be watch boy-on-boy.” They found “directly women’s use of lesbian porn outstrips men’s room: just homosexual or bisexual females watch a lot more girl-on-girl.” Cosmo
discovered similar figures
. These two a number of lots of studies having illuminated the less-than-direct connection women of all orientations have using porn they watch with the particular gender they really have (or desire).

Research on porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian scientists found the majority of the women “didn’t maintain girl-on-girl porno, claiming they found the flicks impractical and clearly produced by and for straight men. Rather, numerous lesbians are drawn to sexual films portraying two guys setting it up on.” The scientists, consistent with some other study with this subject, affirmed that “women are apt to have much more sensual plasticity than males — definitely, they are aroused by a wider different circumstances.”

Inside our study, we made a significant difference between two different varieties of girl-on-girl porn — the kind created by queer ladies for queer females (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn TV
,
Juicy Pink Box
) in addition to kind created by directly individuals for right men and women (age.g., pretty much everything else). We discovered the previous ended up being much more well-known than the latter — and, in addition, a lot of queer females choose viewing right pornography or gay male pornography over lesbian porno made by/for right folks.

The information we’re gonna speak about now could be garnered from the 87.05% of participants exactly who answered “yes” to “do you consumer porn/erotica/smut in any form?” The 12.95% exactly who answered “no” are not expected questions regarding certain porno routines. The 2,471 individuals who skipped practical question and so found on their own in the “what variety of porno do you really like” web page because they didn’t state “no,” that will’ve triggered the study to instantly skip that web page, are not included, since they’re mystical unicorns with worries, hopes and needs beyond my personal forces to discern. By their responses regarding porn-liking page, many do actually eat smut but just don’t feel just like responding to the prior question, so it’s maybe not safe to declare that missing issue = responding to “no.” I mean, for real:

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

. It’s not secure to state such a thing about them whatsoever, so we’re only going to pluck them from the party entirely for your reason for this analysis. Very, take it with a whole grain of salt, but, irrespective, these figures would fit pretty much perfectly with solutions to previous necessary questions relating to pornography, very maybe a tiny grain of sodium.

The data below originates from the

5,277 respondents exactly who helpfully reacted “yes” into the concern “do you take in porn/erotica/smut in any type?”

So let’s mention these figures!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It is unsurprising that erotica reading can be so well-known amongst queer women for several reasons. Firstly: since it is presently popular than ever before amongst women in basic. Indeed,
a 2012 Uk review by Dottybingo.com
shared 91 per cent of females having browse one erotic guide, and 43 percent stated they preferred checking out about sex to having it. That survey had been influenced by

50 Shades of Gray

, naturally, a g-dawful book that began as Twilight fanfic and turned into among the many popular publications in history.

This brings me to the second reason these numbers are unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning took off as a way for enthusiasts (typically females) to understand more about male/male

Celebrity Trek

pairings the show itself could not help, and queer women have actually flocked in droves do the category. In addition to checking out male/male pairings, queer ladies use fanfic to
tell tales regarding the female/female pairings
who link intimately onscreen at a level of
hardly ever
to
never
.

Inside the 200 responses left in open-ended box because of this concern, approximately half had been ensuring We realized that by “erotica” they designed “fan fiction.” Here’s a sampling of several of those answers:

• By “erotica” after all fanfiction, nearly exclusively
• Sexual comics are in reality my personal favorite, but I becamen’t yes where they fit. They’re usually queer not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does homosexual fanfiction about fictional wizards matter
• Let’s be actual, it is Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, its homosexual girl fanfiction smut. If watching, its gay dudes getting extremely passionate together.
• Its all drilling fanfiction and I am hooked, actually we have witnessed times in my existence in which I would review direct homosexual fanfic for over four hours every day.

Online Video

The style of straight and gay male pornography preferred amongst queer ladies is online movie. Particularly if you take a look at lesbians as a remote party, this really is really the only style of erotica/smut/porn that encourages a lot of enthusiasts amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Including, around 70% of lesbians, queers and bisexuals study lesbian erotica on line, but just 25percent of lesbians, 32per cent of queers and 42% of bisexuals look over directly erotica on the web. Although 38% of lesbians glance at queer sexual images internet based, only 9percent at straight sensual images using the internet, when compared with 22percent of bisexuals and 16% of queers.

From this point ahead we’ll relate to “lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer people” as “Q4Q” porn” and “lesbian porn made by/for straight men and women”  as “Q4S” porn.

Include quantities of right porno watchers too high because thus a lot of survey respondents cannot necessarily identify as being solely attracted to ladies? Kind of, but that’s perhaps not the whole story. These are typically those figures:

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

So, although bisexual females are far more inclined to view directly pornography than lesbians tend to be, they are definitely not the only ones watching it. Controversial gender information columnist Dan Savage admits that their knowledge of whom watches what type of porno runs just thus far,
lamenting that
“lesbians screw-up my personal cool and organized porn market.” Sorry perhaps not sorry, Dan!

In my opinion it is fairly public knowledge exactly why queer women dislike fake lesbian pornography, but, fleetingly: but not a lot of the women who got our gender study volunteered this information on their own, there’s no scarcity of lesbians using the internet talking about their unique preference for right or gay male pornography (
or writers selecting responses about it
) supplying details like:

• “I’ve found lesbian pornography is generally focused for directly dudes and they are maybe not stimulating. I for some reason favor straight porno.”
• “Lesbian porn merely thus artificial as well as how long a number of them have long fingernails UGH! overall i mainly see directly porn. Today if its straight pornography I recently focus on the feminine. It could get me personally heading constantly.”
• “Lesbian porno is much too desperate for me so far from the fact that I have found it hard to look at. Maybe not saying straight porn is anymore real but usually not rather as desperate.”
• “Despite the reality I prefer (directly pornography) to lesbian pornography, I’m always studying the lady going “she actually is a great celebrity. Permitting him believe the woman is appreciating it.  And lesbian porno has actually males authored everywhere it; it seems like the actresses don’t want to do what they are carrying out.”

Some rates from your very own survey-takers:

• I generally like excess fat porn. If it ended up being more straightforward to find making for and by queers, I would view that, nevertheless hardly prevails.
• I do not enjoy lesbian pornography since I have can simply select the misogynist video clips created for straight males, that I come across offending.
• I love to watch a lady getting facefucked… We swear I’m a lesbian

Thus, that apart, i am keen on chatting about exactly why 53per cent of most women who understand and see real queer pornography

in addition

see direct porn and exactly why 41percent of lesbian-identified women see straight porno. See, absolutely nothing pushes me personally nuts quicker than a person claiming that a “real lesbian” won’t get activated by straight porn — this is certainly OVERALL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer women who observe straight porno tend to be attracted to men and wish to rest together with them, many are not, and a lady’s choice for directly porno shouldn’t cast any doubt on her mentioned homosexuality.

I cross-checked a number of aspects, instance age, work standing, attraction for kink, intimate experience and gender presentation, to see if any of those had a bearing with this area of choice and nothing endured completely. Consequently, my concepts are as follows:

• 
  Actual girl-on-girl porn expenses money and complimentary girl-on-girl porn sucks:
  
  Great porn by queer ladies for queer ladies typically needs cost (because it should!). Nobody can afford it, desires put money into it, or seems comfy performing this, plus the alternative — the sort of “lesbian” porno discovered at no cost on sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually missing, to put it mildly. What exactly’s left? Right pornography! Gay male porn!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Flexible:
  
  As discussed early in the day on this page, ladies react sexually to sorts of items that tend to be unrelated with their intimate direction. A lot of us exactly who prefer females still get turned-on by straight pornography. That knows the reason why. It just is what it really is!
• 
  Normative beauty criteria:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno has a tendency to function queers with various body kinds, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, renewable lifestyle haircuts and so on. That is section of what is thus incredible regarding it — although not for all. Some queers favor pornography movie stars who seem like porn movie stars instead porn stars which resemble their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as getaway:
  
  Numerous sex sites buyers enjoy porn which provides an escape off their real intercourse physical lives, or usage porn to explore fantasies they usually have no need to check out in real world. Sometimes witnessing actual queers perform around much more explicit or taboo fantasies (such as for instance non-consent) only hits too near home.
• 
  Variety:
  
  There is a wider assortment of directly porn and homosexual male pornography available to you for many different fetishes or kinks an individual may be into. Addititionally there is more hardcore direct porno available to choose from, when queers carry out see directly porno, it is often hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48percent of bisexuals watch hardcore right porn, but just 12per cent of lesbians and 24per cent of bisexuals observe softcore.
• 
  Imagining themselves due to the fact guy:
  
  This might be anecdotal, but I’ve heard countless queer women claim that they imagine by themselves because the guy while you’re watching direct porno. Or they like enjoying porn where women humiliate guys.
• 
  Masturbation video clips:
  
  A lot of might have classified films of women masturbating (which came up from time to time within the commentary) as “directly pornography.”
• 
  Absolutely a lot more of it indeed there and it is easier to get a hold of.
  

In closing, women can be fantastic animals capable of becoming switched on by numerous video clip porn assuming females went the planet truth be told there’d become more analysis about it.

Eventually, I’d similar to to fairly share some of the responses in the “what types of pornography do you actually see” section to provide you with the full summary of what individuals wanted one know they were into:

• Whereis the selection for tentacle porn? Or for intercourse machines going walnuts and providing their particular girl creators countless sexual climaxes? I’m baffled (about several things).
• I view the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never the actual video clips. because i’m getting over my societally & familialy induced hangup about eating pornography.
• Frankly my fave is actually intercourse views from lesbian shows, not genuine Porn pornography. Unsure tips categorize that overhead. We never watch actual pornography.
• Machines/dildo devices
• Home films
• Lesbian gifs, cheers tumblr
• Tumblr “romantic pornography” page is really great
• E-book in car getting bdsm situation tactics, to not ever get-off
• Sexual comics are now actually my favorite, but I wasn’t sure where they can fit. They normally are queer however constantly. I read on the internet and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• We generally have a look at solamente photos and drawings of women. We have no idea who means they are.

How Much Cash Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Realy Eat?

1.9per cent associated with whole smut-consuming team uses their particular smut many times everyday. 3.6per cent indulge one just about every day, 24.6% many times weekly, 11.7% once a week, 27.5% several times monthly, 12.3percent monthly, 16.3per cent several times per year, and somewhat over two percent consume it around that.

In order that’s 5.5% watching pornography every day, which’s more than the 3.8% of women Cosmopolitan
located once they surveyed 4,000 women
(93per cent which were heterosexual) about their porn-watching routines. Additionally they discovered 32.5per cent of males enjoying porn regarding the day-to-day, generally there’s that. But Cosmo was only asking about on the web porno videos, our very own get to was actually bigger — we included erotica and sensual imagery.

Just what factors manipulate how frequently you take in smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we evaluate various relationship and sexual situations.

Clearly absolutely a pretty strong relationship between how often you eat smut and how typically you’re making love. These numbers do declare that co-habitation diminishes frequency of erotic-material-engagement, which implies why these couples aren’t taking in porn together.

Absolutely a direct connection between eating smut/erotica/porn and volume of masturbation — over 90 % of the which masturbate several times a week or maybe more eat smut, when compared to somewhat over 50 percent of these just who masturbate around once a year.

From the entire group — all 8,566 people — 55.3per cent said porn falls under how you usually masturbate. 39.4percent stated the same of erotica.

In Closing

A lot of expected inside the feedback for information on in which they were able to discover queer porno created for queers. Let me create that occur individually, because every person contemplating queer pornography is deserving of feeling in this way commenter on
You Will Need Assist: The Search For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who typed:

“we decided to go to queerporn dot television I am also merely seated here weeping because I not witnessed pornography with others just who appear like me personally, which seem like men and women I would really fuck, who screw like i’d screw. It seems thus genuine. I never noticed that I believed very marginalized and objectified by conventional pornography, now i’m validated. Like, its okay that I have gender the way i actually do because see, there are individuals just like me personally.”

You should read that article! Additionally these:

Get out appreciate whatever sort of smut you wanna!