Shane said:
So what you're saying is you're catering to a market, providing a
service?
Cars need petrol, houses need insulation, people need pornography, is
that
it?<
No--cars don't run without petrol, houses are more pleasant for their human residents if they are insulated, and some people enjoy consuming and producing pornography.
OK, now this is a genuine and serious question. If slash fiction is
meant
to satisfy the unrequited procreative urges of female fans with regard to
male
actors, why does it revolve around male/male couplings?<<
The term "procreative" was used a) ironically and b) euphemistically in light of the sensibilities of some Lyst members--a better euphemism would probably have been "fantasies (erotic and otherwise) of female fans. I'm surprised myself by the prevalence of slash within B7 erotica-- not that I expect less m/m slash, just more hetsmut and f/f stories.
This is why we have limits,
In RL we have limits because things that are enjoyable fantasies have various downsides
censor boards,
We have censor boards because some people want to see a lot of pornography to prevent others from seeing any
warnings
We have warnings because large corporations do not like being sued
and sex-addiction support groups--
Because some people have genuine problems and others buy in to a therapeutic culture
because unrequited lust can turn dangerous,
Well, yes, but in only about .000000001% of all cases. You don't think Brad Pitt makes a living as an ACTOR, do you?
The position I'm coming from as a reader and writer of sexually explicit stories (and of slash stories with little or no explicit sex), and which I am giving her as a personal credo rather than a list of what other people do or should believe: 1. Sexual fantasies--including fantasies about things that are impossible or inadvisable in RL--are an enjoyable and beneficial source of pleasure 2. Sometimes it's fun to use someone else's fantasies as a supplement or trigger to your own 3. 21st Century RL doesn't provide full equality--sexual, economic, racial, or on the basis of orientation. If anything, I think the B7 world is worse, but there is some interesting light to be shed by one on the other 4. Most slash stories aren't queer enough for my taste, so I've appointed myself to fill that niche 5. I have more sexual interest in men than in women, so I tend to write m/m pairings, but not inevitably 6. I think that the way people express themselves sexually is quite interesting and an index to character--whether they're fictional or real.
-(Y)