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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?
Gay porn performers seem to actually enjoy their work, acrdg to a study of female porn watchers. * do women like gay male 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. Women appear at a physlogil level to fd gay male sex jt as arog as heterosexual sex, acrdg to Neville's rearch.
WHY GAY PORN APPEALS TO WOMEN
In this Daily Beast article, Jab Bernste explor the phenomenon of lbians watchg gay male porn. The article brgs up so many great pots about * do women like gay male porn *
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
23 Huge Differenc Between Gay Porn and Real Sex * do women like gay male porn *
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
* do women like 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. 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.
WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN CHOOSG LBIAN AND GAY PORN OVER HETEROSEXUAL PORN?
I'm a straight girl, so why do I want to be wh a gay guy? * do women like gay male porn *
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.
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”.
'WATCHG TWO HANDSOME GUYS? THERE'S NOTHG BETTER.' HOW WOMEN FELL FOR GAY PORN
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. 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.
I AM A STRAIGHT GIRL, BUT WISH I ULD BE WH A GAY GUY.
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.
WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?
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”.
WHY STRAIGHT MEN GAZE AT GAY WOMEN
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. 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.