She also wrote that women in porn are constantly "overacting, or they look "dead in the eyes" or like "they're being tortured." User evancalous wrote that as a bisexual woman she feels that heterosexual porn focuses more on stereotypical porn body parts than on casting people she finds attractive overall. "Gay porn is made for gay men, and some is okay, but there is a lot of bad to sort through to find anything I like," the user wrote. However, she said male gay porn catered to the male gaze. The user kissacupcake commented that heterosexual porn is "usually terrible" and the "sex doesn't look like it's good for the girl." She also said that a lot of heterosexual porn focuses on domination that isn't consensual.Īnother user said that heterosexual porn focuses too much on women, so she watches gay male porn. "The reasons they say are that they can see what it's like when men handle each other." A thread posted in r/AskWomen on Reddit in 2013 explored why women like gay male porn. "They really focus on looking at the girls, and the noises they make are too distracting." She said she's talked about watching porn with friends, and some of the women she knows have experimented with gay male porn as well.
"I think the women in it are too distracting," she said. She said that heterosexual porn uses unrealistic caricatures of women that aren't appealing. ATTN: talked to a 27-year-old woman from California, who asked that we didn't publisher her name. So why do women want to watch gay male porn?Ī common theme is that women feel heterosexual porn is not realistic or appealing from the female perspective. Pornhub data also shows that the term "gay men" is one of the top searches for women every year. A whopping 37 percent of viewers of gay male porn are women over 45. visitors to the site last year were women, and 26 percent of global visitors were women.Īn analysis of 10 years of Pornhub data conducted by The Cut found something interesting about women's porn watching habits women like to watch gay male porn. Pornhub's data blog says that 25 percent of U.S.