In March 2015, Autostraddle launched
The Ultimate Lesbian Intercourse Survey
, open to all «lady-types who sleep with lady-types.» We earned over 8,566 comprehensive reactions (89percent of which had been from men and women between the many years of 18 and 36) nowadays we are discussing the outcomes with you, piece by piece. Formerly:

Simply How Much Smut Perform Queer Ladies Consume?

In 2013,
a Pew analysis Center report on porn-viewing routines of the American individuals
announced the United states people don’t appear to need to speak with the Pew Research Center regarding their porn-viewing practices: merely 25percent of males and 8per cent of women just who view online video fessed doing viewing adult videos. This looks significantly unlikely, but some other quotes aren’t much higher —

Psychology Today

states that their unique «best guess»
is that «somewhere between 8% and 20% of women online visit pornography sites with any consistency.» An
Australian research of Health and affairs in 2014
discovered 20per cent of women had looked over pornography within the last year. This does not actually match with information harvested by internet by itself,
like this
12percent of sites on the net tend to be pornographic and 40 million Us americans regularly visit porn internet sites. Or this 1 3rd of sex sites people tend to be women and 35percent of all internet packages tend to be associated with pornography.

Dazed Digital, having said that, did a much bigger and a lot more revelatory survey of 10,500 men and women in 114 nations. They
developed higher numbers
:

… while a quarter of respondents never watch pornography, 59per cent see it someone to 5 times a week, and 16% six or even more occasions. Both women and men want it – around three out of 5 see it at least one time per week, irrespective of gender. Divisions happen during the extremes of intake: 90% of people that never ever view pornography tend to be ladies, while 90% of individuals who view grot above 11 occasions per week tend to be men. Put one other way, while most ladies engage at least once weekly, merely 4% do so six or maybe more instances each week, compared to 60% of men which see it almost every time or higher.

Whenever we asked the survey-takers «do you take in porn/erotica/smut in just about any kind?», 87% of the which answered practical question answered inside the affirmative. So already we’re revealing figures which are extraordinarily raised above past research has shown. Of these just who consume porn/smut/erotica, 39% performed so once a week or maybe more. But not all that is traditional porno.

What sort of smut do queer ladies consume?

Dazed Online learned that
«the average straight-identifying lady is far more very likely to see girl-on-girl compared to the normal straight guy is enjoy boy-on-boy.» They discovered «right ladies’ consumption of lesbian porno outstrips men’s room: just gay or bisexual ladies watch a lot more girl-on-girl.» Cosmo
found similar figures
. Both of these a number of numerous studies that have illuminated the less-than-direct connection women of most orientations have utilizing the porn they view for the particular sex they really have actually (or want).

A report throughout the porn-viewing behaviors of lesbians
by Irish and Canadian experts discovered all the females «didn’t take care of girl-on-girl porn, claiming they found the movies unrealistic and clearly produced by as well as directly males. As an alternative, numerous lesbians tend to be attracted to erotic movies depicting two guys getting it on.» The experts, in line with other investigation on this subject topic, affirmed that «women generally have more sensual plasticity than guys — that is, they can be turned-on by a wider assortment of situations.»

Inside our survey, we made a significant distinction between two different kinds of girl-on-girl porno — the sort from queer women for queer ladies (age.g.,
Crash Pad Series
,
Queer Porn television
,
Juicy Pink Container
) plus the sort made by straight men and women for right men and women (age.g., just about all more). We found the previous ended up being a lot more preferred versus latter — and, furthermore, many queer females prefer seeing right porn or homosexual male porno over lesbian porn made by/for directly people.

The data we’re gonna explore now’s garnered from the 87.05% of respondents whom responded «yes» to «do you customer porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?» The 12.95% which answered «no» were not expected questions relating to specific porno routines. The 2,471 people which skipped practical question and so found on their own throughout the «what types of porn do you like» web page because they did not say «no,» that will’ve caused the survey to instantly skip that page, are not included, because they’re strange unicorns with worries, dreams and needs beyond my personal forces to detect. Just by their solutions on porn-liking page, many perform really digest smut but simply failed to feel like answering the prior concern, so it’s maybe not safe to state that missing issue = answering «no.» I am talking about, the real deal:

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

. It isn’t really safe to say such a thing about all of them whatsoever, therefore we’re simply going to pluck all of them from the party entirely for the reason for this analysis. Thus, go with a grain of sodium, but, irrespective, these figures would fit just about perfectly with solutions to earlier in the day required questions relating to pornography, very perhaps a small grain of sodium.

The info below arises from the

5,277 respondents just who helpfully reacted «yes» to your concern «do you eat porn/erotica/smut in virtually any form?»

Therefore why don’t we explore these numbers!

Erotica / Fan-Fic

It is unsurprising that erotica reading is indeed preferred amongst queer women for a few explanations. First of all: since it is at this time more popular than in the past amongst women in general. Actually,
a 2012 British review by Dottybingo.com
shared 91 % of women having browse one or more erotic guide, and 43% stated they favored checking out about sex to using it. That survey was determined by

50 Shades of Grey

, obviously, a g-dawful book that started as Twilight fanfic and turned into among the popular publications of all time.

This brings us to the second explanation these figures tend to be unsurprising: y’all
love some fan-fic
. Fanfic in the beginning shot to popularity for followers (primarily women) to explore male/male

Superstar Trek

pairings the show itself would never help, and queer females have actually flocked in droves carry out the category. As well as checking out male/male pairings, queer ladies use fanfic to
tell tales regarding the female/female pairings
who link intimately onscreen at a consistent level of
rarely
to
never ever
.

During the 200 comments kept for the unrestricted package for this question, about half were guaranteeing I understood that by «erotica» they suggested «fan fiction.» Listed here is a sampling of several of those responses:

• By «erotica» after all fanfiction, almost specifically
• Sensual comics are in reality my personal favorite, but I found myselfn’t certain where they can fit. They are usually queer not always.
• Erotic Superhero fanfiction
• Really does gay fanfiction about imaginary wizards number
• Why don’t we be real, its Faberry or Quintana fanfic
• If reading, it’s homosexual woman fanfiction smut. If watching, it is gay dudes getting awesome enthusiastic with each other.
• It really is all drilling fanfiction I am also hooked, actually there’s been occasions in my existence in which i might read direct homosexual fanfic for more than four-hours every day.

Video

The style of directly and gay male porn most well known amongst queer women is on the net video. Especially if you see lesbians as an isolated class, this really is really the only structure of erotica/smut/porn that encourages lots of fans amongst ladies-who-only-like-ladies. Eg, around 70per cent of lesbians, queers and bisexuals browse lesbian pornography on the web, but just 25percent of lesbians, 32per cent of queers and 42percent of bisexuals browse straight erotica on line. Although 38percent of lesbians take a look at queer sexual imagery web, merely 9percent at right sexual images using the internet, when compared with 22% of bisexuals and 16percent of queers.

From this point forward I’ll refer to «lesbian/queer porno made by/for queer people» as «Q4Q» pornography» and «lesbian pornography made by/for straight men and women»  as «Q4S» porn.

Are quantities of directly pornography watchers so high because so a lot of review participants you should not fundamentally determine to be solely attracted to women? Kind of, but that’s maybe not the whole story. These are typically those figures:

• Bisexuals, queers and lesbians which see video see Q4Q pornography at almost similar prices, ranging from 66percent – 67percent.
• Bisexuals would be the probably to look at direct pornography — 54% of these carry out, versus 32percent of queers and 41per cent of lesbians. They may be in addition the most likely to view Q4S pornography — 38% of those do, in comparison to 33% of queers and 29% of lesbians.
• Queers just who see video are most likely to watch gay male porn — 36% of these carry out, when compared to about 32percent for both bisexuals and lesbians.

Very, although bisexual ladies tend to be more inclined to watch right pornography than lesbians tend to be, they’re not the sole types enjoying it. Controversial intercourse advice columnist Dan Savage admits that his understanding of which watches what type of pornography offers merely yet,
lamenting that
«lesbians screw up my nice and organized porno world.» Sorry perhaps not sorry, Dan!

I do believe it really is relatively public knowledge exactly why queer women dislike phony lesbian porn, but, quickly: but not a lot of the women that got our gender review volunteered this info independently, there is shortage of lesbian online speaking about their own choice for right or gay male porn (
or article writers selecting solutions about it
) offering details want:

• «I’ve found lesbian porno is generally focused for straight dudes and they are maybe not stimulating. I somehow prefer straight porn.»
• «Lesbian pornography is merely so phony and how very long several have long fingernails UGH! overall i primarily observe direct porno. Now if the directly porn I recently concentrate on the female. It may get me heading like hell.»
• «Lesbian porn is actually way too desperate for me and therefore not the truth that I have found it hard to watch. Not claiming straight porn is any longer real but not often very as tacky.»
• «though i favor (direct porno) to lesbian porno, I’m always looking at the girl heading «she’s an excellent actress. Allowing him imagine she’s enjoying it.  And lesbian porno features men written all-over it; it simply seems like the stars should not be doing what they are performing.»

Some quotes from your own survey-takers:

• I mostly like fat porno. If it was actually more straightforward to find and made for and by queers, I would personally view that, however it hardly is available.
• Really don’t view lesbian porn since I have can only discover misogynist video clips made for directly guys, that I discover offending.
• I like to view a lady getting facefucked… I swear i am a lesbian

So, that apart, I’m interested in talking about precisely why 53per cent of all of the women who know about watching actual queer porno

additionally

view directly pornography and exactly why 41% of lesbian-identified ladies see direct porn. See, absolutely nothing pushes myself walnuts more quickly than a person saying that a «real lesbian» won’t get aroused by straight porno — definitely FULL BANANAS. Although a lot of queer women who observe directly porn tend to be drawn to guys and wish to rest with them, many are not, and a woman’s inclination for right pornography should never cast any question on the woman mentioned homosexuality.

I cross-checked a number of elements, such as for example get older, work standing, affinity for kink, sexual experience and gender demonstration, to find out if those had a visible impact about this field of inclination and absolutely nothing endured on. Consequently, my ideas are as follows:

• 
  Actual girl-on-girl pornography prices money and free of charge girl-on-girl porno sucks:
  
  Good pornography by queer females for queer ladies frequently calls for cost (since it should!). No person are able it, really wants to spend money on it, or seems comfy doing this, as well as the choice — the type of «lesbian» porno found 100% free on internet sites like PornHub and RedTube — is actually lacking, to say the least. What exactly’s left? Straight pornography! Gay male porno!
• 
  Women Can Be Erotically Versatile:
  
  As talked about earlier in the day in this post, females respond sexually to all the forms of items that are unrelated with their sexual direction. A lot of us exactly who choose females however have turned on by right porn. Who knows precisely why. It just is exactly what its!
• 
  Normative beauty requirements:
  
  Queer-for-queer porno will feature queers with numerous body types, gender presentations, piercings, tattoos, alternative lifestyle haircuts and so forth. Which is part of what’s so amazing regarding it — not for everybody. Some queers prefer pornography performers whom appear like pornography movie stars in the place of porn performers which appear like their favorite bartender or ex-girlfriend.
• 
  Porn as escape:
  
  Many sex sites customers enjoy porn that offers an escape from their actual sex everyday lives, or use pornography to explore fantasies obtained no want to check out in actual life. Often witnessing real queers perform aside a lot more direct or taboo dreams (eg non-consent) only hits also close to home.
• 
  Type:
  
  Absolutely a wider variance of right porno and gay male porn online for many different fetishes or kinks someone might be into. There is more hardcore directly porno available, as soon as queers do see directly pornography, it is often hardcore — 33percent of lesbians and 48per cent of bisexuals view hardcore directly porn, but only 12percent of lesbians and 24percent of bisexuals watch softcore.
• 
  Picturing themselves because guy:
  
  This is anecdotal, but i have heard so many queer women declare that they imagine themselves as man while watching right porno. Or they like viewing pornography where ladies humiliate guys.
• 
  Masturbation movies:
  
  Numerous may have classified videos of girls masturbating (which came up a few times when you look at the commentary) as «right porn.»
• 
  There is a lot more of it indeed there and it is simpler to get a hold of.
  

Lastly, women are great creatures capable of becoming switched on by a variety of video porn whenever women ran worldwide truth be told there’d be much more study about any of it.

Ultimately, I’d exactly like to fairly share a number of the statements from the «what particular porn do you realy enjoy» section to offer the total overview of what people wanted that know these people were into:

• In whichis the selection for tentacle porn? Or gender equipments going nuts and giving their own girl creators endless sexual climaxes? I’m baffled (about many things).
• I see the *trailers* on queerporntv & crashpad but never ever the specific videos. because i’m recovering from my societally & familialy induced hangup about consuming porn.
• Actually my personal fave is intercourse moments from lesbian programs, not genuine Porn porno. Undecided how to categorize that overhead. I never see real porn.
• Machines/dildo devices
• House movies
• Lesbian gifs, cheers tumblr
• Tumblr «romantic pornography» page is truly good
• E-book in car receive bdsm scenario tips, never to exit
• Sexual comics are in fact my favorite, but I becamen’t sure in which they fit. They normally are queer yet not always. We read online and occasionally printing (smutpeddler)
• We mostly view solo pics and illustrations of women. We have no clue who makes them.

How Much Smut/Erotica/Porn Do You Realy Consume?

1.9% on the entire smut-consuming class uses their unique smut many times on a daily basis. 3.6% indulge one on a daily basis, 24.6per cent many times a week, 11.7% once a week, 27.5% many times four weeks, 12.3percent monthly, 16.3percent multiple times annually, and somewhat over two percent consume it lower than that.

To make sure that’s 5.5percent observing porno every day, which’s significantly more than the 3.8per cent of women Cosmopolitan
located if they surveyed 4,000 females
(93percent of which happened to be heterosexual) about their porn-watching routines. They even discovered 32.5percent of men viewing porno from the daily, so there’s that. But Cosmo was just inquiring about on line porno movies, all of our get to was larger — we included erotica and sensual images.

Exactly what aspects manipulate how many times you eat smut/porn/erotica? Why don’t we consider different commitment and intimate scenarios.

Plainly there is a pretty strong relationship between how frequently you eat smut and exactly how typically you are having sexual intercourse. These numbers do declare that co-habitation diminishes volume of erotic-material-engagement, which suggests why these couples commonly ingesting porno with each other.

There is a primary connection between eating smut/erotica/porn and volume of masturbation — over 90 % of those who masturbate many times a week or maybe more digest smut, in comparison to some over 50 % of these just who masturbate around annually.

With the whole party — all 8,566 of you — 55.3per cent stated porno belongs to the manner in which you generally masturbate. 39.4per cent stated the exact same of erotica.

In Closing

Numerous asked within the commentary for informative data on in which they can get a hold of queer porn made for queers. I would ike to make that occur for you personally, because every person enthusiastic about queer porn deserves to feel such as this commenter on
You Will Want Assist: The Pursuit Of Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
, exactly who wrote:

«we went to queerporn mark television I am also only seated here crying because i have not witnessed porn with individuals just who appear to be me, who look like folks I would in fact fuck, just who shag like I would screw. It feels therefore genuine. I never noticed that I thought so marginalized and objectified by popular porn, and now personally i think validated. Like, its okay that i’ve intercourse how i actually do because see, there are people exactly like myself.»

You need to read that article! Additionally these:

Get forth and luxuriate in whatever type of smut you wanna!