Scarleteen

im 17, and im a straight female. is it weird that I experience sexual arousal from watching gay porn? and even orgasms? i feel really embarrassed and ashamed but us that normal? one night I just found myself browsing porn and a gay one popped up. i watched it, and I was really turned on from it. im not trans or bi or anything... in fact I have a whole playlist of gay porn I watch.. is that odd?

Hi prettyyybarbie,

It's actually very common for people to get arousal from sexual media that doesn't reflect their own sexuality! What arouses us can be really variable, and it can include things that we wouldn't be able to, or don't want to, be a part of in real life.

Too, even if this was a less common behavior, there wouldn't be anything bad or shameful about it; like I said, what kinds of stories or fantasies arouse people is really diverse, and there's nothing wrong with people enjoying things that others might find odd. Do you have a sense of what about this is leading you to feel embarrassed or ashamed?

it's not weird at all!

i don't know what kind of hobbies you have or which communities you usually hang around in, but in otaku/anime communities there is a porn genre (usually porn, can be non-sexual) called bl (boy's love)(usually called yaoi in western circles) that is m/m content that was basically pioneered by straight women for straight women (though i have seen many queer women in both east asian and western communities who love m/m)(there's also bl made by men for men but that's neither here nor there)

bottom line is, it's extremely normal for straight women to be into gay porn. i assume you meant m/m porn, but it's not unheard of for straight women to like lesbian porn either