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Contents:

• WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN WATCHG MALE GAY PORN?
• WHY GAY PORN APPEALS TO WOMEN
• OVER HALF OF WOMEN WHO WATCH GAY PORN IMAGE THEMSELV AS MEN
• WHY LBIANS LOVE GAY MALE PORN
• WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN CHOOSG LBIAN AND GAY PORN OVER HETEROSEXUAL PORN?
• 'WATCHG TWO HANDSOME GUYS? THERE'S NOTHG BETTER.' HOW WOMEN FELL FOR GAY PORN
• I AM A STRAIGHT GIRL, BUT WISH I ULD BE WH A GAY GUY.
• WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?
• WHY STRAIGHT MEN GAZE AT GAY WOMEN

WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN WATCHG MALE GAY PORN?

"Male gays the female gaze: Women who watch m/m pornography, " by rearcher Lucy Neville, drew rearch om a recent survey om adult film se PornHub.

WHY GAY PORN APPEALS TO WOMEN

Women appear at a physlogil level to fd gay male sex jt as arog as heterosexual sex, acrdg to Neville's rearch. The study tailed the book vtigated why exactly women are aroed by watchg male-on-male sex by surveyg 275 self-intified women who watch gay male sample clud straight, bisexual, lbian, queer, asexual, pansexual, and misexual women; 68 percent of participants also watched heterosexual pornography, and 53 percent also watched lbian pornography.

However, 82 percent of participants preferred gay male pornography over other overwhelmg reason the women watched gay male porn was that they felt was more thentic than other genr. "The women also said that they felt they shared a more mon gaze wh the target dience as opposed to heterosexual and lbian porn, which is predomantly ma for heterosexual men, and they felt gay men's pot of view was more le wh their personal preferenc and sir. They perceived the rough sex gay porn as more tasteful than behavrs displayed heterosexual and lbian porn, whout feelg "non-nsensual.

"Other participants simply enjoyed the taboo of gay sex and the ia they would never experience what was happeng on their laptops. That’s why more and more women are fog straight porn to fd somethg that do work for them – gay porn featurg men only.

OVER HALF OF WOMEN WHO WATCH GAY PORN IMAGE THEMSELV AS MEN

Pornhub stats (lk is NSFW) show that women are 69% (nice) more likely to watch gay male porn than men, and ’s the most watched tegory for women over 45. It’s more mon for the 18-24 age group to watch gay porn, wh over 40% of the women who do so fallg to that bracket. Another said, ‘Het porn is jt grim… The twisted power dynamics are a massive turn off and much ls prent gay porn.

WHY LBIANS LOVE GAY MALE PORN

Harriet, 26, told why she prefers gay porn:. ‘I ed to exclively watch gay male porn bee I was unfortable wh the level of vlence and sh*t-talkg directed at women hetero porn, ’ she says.

WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN CHOOSG LBIAN AND GAY PORN OVER HETEROSEXUAL PORN?

Pl, men have been watchg lbian porn for ag, so ’s not like straight women watchg gay porn is that unual. If you’re watchg gay porn and start to wonr whether this means anythg about your genr inty or sexual preferenc, there are people you n talk to.

The rearch found that “the genr spl viewg gay male porn is actually much higher at 37% female” and that “proportnately, that means women are 69% more likely to be viewg gay porn than their male unterparts”. And gay porn is the flt mo on my Pornhub search.

'WATCHG TWO HANDSOME GUYS? THERE'S NOTHG BETTER.' HOW WOMEN FELL FOR GAY PORN

Expandg on what she fds appealg about gay male pornography — particular, scen featurg “uber-mascule” men — the 32-year-old says: “A part of me actually lov seeg them beg humbled by dick.

Malope is one of a number of women who are dchg heterosexual porn favour of the gay male variant. The rearch found that “the genr spl viewg gay male porn is actually much higher at 37% female” and that “proportnately, that means women are 69% more likely to be viewg gay porn than their male unterparts”. It found that gay male porn was, overall, the send-most popular tegory among women but “for those over the age of 45 surpass ‘lbian’ to bee the number one most-viewed tegory”.

The number of 18- to 24-year-old women watchg gay male porn was slightly higher at 40. Although she prefers heterosexual porn, Gvanna Mokoena* says she watch gay porn bee of the sense of agency all participants appear to have.

I AM A STRAIGHT GIRL, BUT WISH I ULD BE WH A GAY GUY.

Mokoena, a 26-year-old transgenr woman, adds that watchg gay male porn translat to how she would like her sexual enunters wh men to be.

The reasons for women choosg to watch gay male porn are numero, says Mamabolo. A lot of the women watchg [gay male pornography] are attracted to men and the foc is on men, so speaks to their attractn. Wh gay porn, the posn is more of equaly.

Neville also not that “for a subset of women who are rape and abe survivors, [gay male porn] is one of the few typ of sexually explic media they n enjoy whout feelg triggered or retrmatised”. For Mokoena, gay male porn offers a sense of empowerment. “What I enjoy seeg is people havg real agency sexual enunters porn, whether they are trans or gay or whatever.

WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?

And as a woman wh a transgenr experience, [gay porn] giv me hope that there’s a possibily of agency for pleasure and cisn-makg wh sexual activy. “Whether is straight, gay, bi or whatever, disempowered sex turns me off. And wh gay porn, I know that the two bodi are empowered this thg they are dog.

More than half of women who watch male gay porn image themselv as MEN durg erotic sexual fantasi 'to feel ls guilty', scientist revealsWomen who watch gay male porn do not have to worry about women performersViewg this type of erotic vio 'remov off-puttg genr power dynamics'37% of all gay male porn on the world's most porn se is viewed by womenThe five-year study was nducted by Dr Lucy Neville, a lecturer crimology om the Universy of Leicter, for her latt book Updated: 17:07 BST, 18 July 2018.

Most women who watch gay male porn 'image themselv' as men durg their sexual fantasi, acrdg to new rearch.

WHY STRAIGHT MEN GAZE AT GAY WOMEN

A Universy of Leicter crimologist believ a high percentage of women watch gay male porn (m/m) bee they do not have to worry or feel guilty about the female performers the scen, unlike heterosexual pornography. Participants the study, which was ed as the basis of a new book 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Eroti', felt men enjoyed takg part pornography more than rearch also revealed that 37 per cent of all gay male pornography streamed on PornHub is watched by women. Scroll down for vio Most women who watch gay porn 'image themselv' as men durg their sexual fantasi, acrdg to a new book (stock image)Acrdg to Dr Lucy Neville, a Lecturer Crimology om the Universy of Leicter, 55 per cent of women surveyed imaged themselv as the oppose the 500 women who were studied as part of the five-year long project watched male on male eroti.

Dr Neville looked at how women produce and nsume different typ of pornography - om slashfic (which volv lookg at sexual relatnships between characters of the same sex) to erotic texts and visual fdgs, which were published the book 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Eroti', exam how women's e of gay male erotic media fs wh perceptns of genr and sexualy. A Universy of Leicter crimologist believ that unlike heterosexual pornography, women who watch gay male porn do not have to feel guilty about women performers (stock image)The study also revealed that for women who like BDSM (roleplay volvg bondage, disciple, domance and submissn, sadomasochism) two or more of the same genred participants removed off-puttg genr power dynamics om a May, rearchers found that people who try to supprs sexual thoughts might end up thkg about even study, lled 'God I Can't Stop Thkg About Sex ', examed differenc between Jewish Orthodox teenagers and secular adolcents.

In this Daily Beast article, Jab Bernste explor the phenomenon of lbians watchg gay male porn.