We don’t know how often, or in what kind of time increments, these study participants consume porn. Downing’s research, however, has its own dark spots. But! It’s still something, and worth noting lesbian porn ranked 6th most-viewed category for men. We also have no idea what percentage of Pornhub’s female viewers are mostly gay, mostly straight, or somewhere in the middle. Of course there’s plenty of details the analysis doesn’t get into - the nuances of sexuality, and gender identity, to name a few - that could tell us a lot more. We should have seen this coming, TBH. Pornhub’s 2014 metrics found lesbian porn most popular among women using their site. Watch whatever porn you want without letting that inform your sense of sexuality or self unless that’s what you want.” Researchers call this “ identity discrepant porn-viewing,” according to Vocativ. The same study found 55 percent of gay male participants have watched heterosexual porn recently.
It only seems fair that hetero men should enjoy the same freedom to dig whomever they dig.īecause self-identifying gay dudes do. This is progress! This is (hopefully) the death of beer-fueled, bro-on-bro hugs cut abrupt by a “no homo” disclaimer! Conventional wisdom and acceptance of women’s sexual fluidity has only gained steam since Angelina Jolie started being open about her sexuality eons ago - perhaps making Miley Cryus coming out as pansexual pretty anticlimactic (and, frankly, not super surprising). Namely, despite the annoying perpetuation of homophobic rhetoric - like “bromance,” why - surrounding the culture, 21 percent of the heterosexual men surveyed say they’ve watched same-sex male porn in the past six months. Downing dives the into porn-watching habits of 821 gay, straight, and bisexual men reveals some unexpected behavior. Great news for dudes and society’s potential of accepting the idea their sexuality may also exist on a spectrum! A new study from Dr.