“Respondents were more able to believe that both actors were enjoying the experience and that the sexual desire and pleasure between them, therefore, felt more ‘authentic,’” Neville stated in the research. Women appear at a physiological level to find gay male sex just as arousing as heterosexual sex, with the overwhelming reason given by women for watching gay male porn was the feeling that it was more authentic than other genres. However, a staggering 82% of participants preferred gay male pornography over other genres. In total, 68% of the participants also watched heterosexual pornography, while 53% also watched lesbian pornography.
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The study, which drew research from a recent survey from adult film site PornHub, investigated why exactly women are aroused by watching male-on-male sex by surveying 275 self-identified women who watch gay male porn. The sample included straight, bisexual, lesbian, queer, asexual, pansexual and demisexual women. This is according to a study – “Male gays in the female gaze: Women who watch m/m pornography” by researcher Lucy Neville – by London’s Middlesex University. More than half of women who watch same-sex male pornography are watching it because they feel it is “more authentic” than other genres.