From: "Neil Faulkner" N.Faulkner@tesco.net

<Almost as if rebellion or revolution were perceived to be mutually incompatible with sexual relations. I detect the implication that anything outside relationships is seen to be somehow asexual and sterile or even antisexual, whi strikes me as depressingly reactionary.>

I think you're right, as witness the recent spate of posts along the lines of the writer liking a particular story up until the sex bit kicks in. But this does raise a point about a lot of the erotic fiction that I've seen: that often the sex does seem to be divorced from the politics, as if the two were mutually incompatible, which seems to run counter to the way in which sex was presented in the series itself. Not the case for all erotic fanfic, but certainly a problem with many examples of the genre.

PS to Una and Tavia: OK, OK. Cambridge won already. What do you do, genetically engineer your rowing team?

Fiona

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