Straight Pride? Maybe Not That Straight

June is Pride Month, so we did a deeper dive into what LGBTQ people are viewing on xHamster. And along the way, we found a few interesting things about straight people (hint: they’re not always that straight!)

According to a 2016 Gallup poll, only 3.8% of Americans identify as LGBTQ. That closely matches what our own survey of 11K xHamster users said, which clocked a little higher at — 4.06% identified as gay or lesbian.

And yet, only 67.7% identified as straight. Maybe researchers are asking the wrong question. Or maybe people are just more open when a browser is set to incognito.


As we’ve noted before, 22.4% of respondents self-identified as bisexual. And another 4.7% or so identified as “Other” — all of which leaves a lot of wiggle room when the lights are out.

That’s nearly 33% of the population — much closer to the 37% people with homosexual experiences identified by Kinsey in the 1940s.

And even the ones that identified as “heterosexual or straight” weren’t being entirely forthcoming.

We broke out the viewing patterns of those who identified as “straight,” “gay” and “bi” separately. (Remember, this isn’t mysterious traffic data — these are people self-reporting how they see themselves and what they watch.)

We asked each group what type of content they “commonly” watch. Here’s what we found:

Of straight respondents, the following percentages of purely heterosexuals reported watching LGBTQ content:

4.22% watch gay male porn
11.3% watch bisexual porn
29.67% watch lesbian porn
15.07% watch trans porn

“But, but, but” 
 say the Twinkie defensive. That’s straight men watching lesbian videos, and lesbians watching gay videos, just like in the K1ds Are Alright, right? Wrong.

Here’s how it is when we looked exclusively at men:





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The numbers are pretty much the same.

Straight women are even more fluid.






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And it’s worth noting that gay men watch less lesbian content than straight men watch gay male content. What letters should we use for that????

Maybe rather than creating a straight pride parade, straight people should just get a float in the gay one!

“No matter what people say about their sexuality, the data doesn’t lie,” says Alex Hawkins, Vice President of xHamster. “The survey shows that sexuality is a continuum, and that ‘straightness’ and ‘gayness’ are constructs that don’t actually match up cleanly with sexual desire. But that’s the beauty of sex and porn — we allow people to explore beyond labels.”

Either way, happy pride!
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5 years ago
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NightOwl81
NightOwl81 2 years ago
how about..  stop trying to turn straight people gay. Yeah.
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-Snap-Crotch-Beaver-
-Snap-Crotch-Beaver- 2 years ago
colorful
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Takeanap18
to Pdrum : So they come up with some random nonsense to push as PC to justify something else.
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Takeanap18
to Pdrum : Its all bullshit. Any sexual progressive movement these days is all just an attempt to dilute every sexual social construct known to modern civiliation because some people can look themselves in the mirror and admit to their past actions or their future desires.
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Pdrum
Pdrum 5 years ago
to Pdrum : If you look at the chart its less than 4  percent, how does that prove anything
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Pdrum
Pdrum 5 years ago
to Takeanap18 : Exactly, I'm a straight guy and I don't watch gay porn except maybe lesbian porn, how do they prove based on those statistics, it's bullshit, it shows a very small percentage of straight men, which you said are "curious".
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Takeanap18
Straight Male here... I Never watch gay porn, why? Because Im straight, Hetero...Sexual! Not Homo...Sexual! For those who do watch both, they are Bi...Sexual(or Bi...Curious, they just havent admittied it to themselves yet. No rush, take your time)! And that is fine! its ok to be gay. Its ok to be straight! Its ok to be one of the three! Whats Not Ok... where I disagree.... is when the Respectful and Honorable website decides to categorize a straight males masturbation content as Gay! Why else would a male make such content.... oh it must be for other males, yup thats it! The only people interested in viewing this style of video is other men. No respectable female would ever consider watching that! So that must mean every "straight male" with such content MUST be gay.... Uhhh Excuse Me! Did you just assume my sexual orientation!? Did you just label me? Im Offended! Which now makes Me the victim and I demand you comply with my individual subjective reality and Stop forcing your Beliefs on me! Stop allowing an Obvious Male to generate a Female profile. Stop Encouraging the Proud Gay men to approach a Straight men because he seen a wrongfully categorized video suggesting the uploader was gay... when in fact he is not! OMG I feel my PTSD coming on.... I need a Safe Space xhamster! GET OVER YOURSELF XHAMSTER, YOURE NOT THE MORALLY UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE! .....Youre a fucking porn site!
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Fletcher75
Fletcher75 5 years ago
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greasybator
"If they have their own parade, can the shut up about it the rest of the year?"   :wink: 
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asd210 5 years ago
very good
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LushClub
LushClub 5 years ago
"...straight men watch gay male content." Not that surprising, 'straight' porn has a lot of dicks in it. :smile: Most men can appreciate a big, thick, dick. And when you think about it, a great deal of porn is focused on men's dicks and where they stick them. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Maybe there will be, in time, an all-encompassing 'Sexual Pride Day'. :grinning:
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Touluose
Touluose 5 years ago
Good data I'm very interested in how the content changes, depending on the gender of the person. A detail to study more about human behavior.
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filthywanker
filthywanker 5 years ago
Antiquated labels such as "heterosexual" and "homosexual" are so 20th Century. Ten years on this site has taught me that.
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