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When it comes to the type of porn we enjoy, women are leading the charge into the audiobook frontier.
Women now count for a third of porn users, and audio porn especially is on the rise among women – potentially because women don’t want to watch strangers that don’t represent their body type or real life, but prefer to visualise a story for themselves.
We can see how women consume racy material differently from the popularity of the book (and later, film series), Fifty Shades of Grey going on to become the best-selling book of the 2010s. The first book sold a whopping 35 million print and e-book copies from 2011-19.
And a quick search on Tumblr will reveal thousands of women posting racy ‘fanfic’ stories of everything from Harry Potter (sincere apologies if you’re now picturing Harry Potter in the buff) to Dr Who.
The ‘Headspace of erotic content’ website Dipsea also reported 5.4 million listens in 2022 compared to 4.9 million in 2021, showing that there’s a growing appetite for sexy audiobooks.
And science is backing it up. Research shows that 90% of women prefer to visualise or create scenarios in our heads to get us turned on, yet the erotic material available to us (traditional porn) focuses so much more focused on our bodies rather than our minds.