Women watch lots of gay porn (and imagine themselves as men)

Women actually watch a surprisingly large amount of man-on-man porn – and most women imagine themselves as men while doing so.

Man-on-man porn was the second-most popular choice for female visitors to Pornhub, researchers found.

And 55% of women imagine themselves as men while they watch, Dr Lucy Neville of the University of Leicester says.

Some women prefer man-on-man porn because they don’t have to worry about (or feel guilty about) the female performers, Dr Neville says.

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Dr Neville said: ‘Some meet the existence of women enjoying man-on-man sexually explicit media with surprise, there is growing acceptance that it is perhaps not quite as uncommon as first thought.

‘For example, m/m was the second most popular choice for women visitors to PornHub for the last two years of viewer data and PornHub estimates women make up 37% of its m/m porn viewers – suggesting that women represent viable secondary consumers of m/m porn.

‘By drawing on a piece of wide-scale mixed methods research that examines these motivations, an original approach is taken with my research that serves to explore and contribute to this under-researched area.’