From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com

On 1/22/15 11:59 AM, John W Kennedy wrote:
> On 2015-01-22 02:31:39 +0000, John F. Eldredge said:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:27:03 -0500, John W Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-01-14 20:13:09 +0000, Dorothy J Heydt said:
>>>
>>>> In article , Bill Swears  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My daughter, on the other hand, has written some fanfic and hangs out
>>>>> at one the the fanfiction sites a fair amount.  I had a conversation
>>>>> with her that made me very uncomfortable the other day.  Apparently
>>>>> slash is short for gay pron fanfic.  I'm not sure where to go with
>>>>> this information.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that phrase has been around since the sixties, and even I,
>>>> cloistered as I am, know about it.  The original usage was
>>>> "Kirk/Spock," meaning g.p.f about those two characters.  Talk about
>>>> wishful thinking.
>>>
>>> Since it's mostly a Girl Thing, I'm not entirely certain that "wishful"
>>> is quite the word. Or is it?
>>
>> Well, straight men have traditionally been interested in porn featuring
>> femme lesbians.
>
> Yes, but (latest actual science I'm aware of), that's mainly a
> side-effect of the commonly internalized straight-male taboo on looking
> at another man's penis. And, of course, it's visual, which slash is not,
> though that's much less important, since women are not so visual to
> begin with.
>

	My observations of the female slash community (which have been fairly
extensive as my wife has been on the edges of that community for a long
time and may have written the first Dragonball slash ever posted in
English online ["Vegita Tai Goku"]) are that there is certainly a
titillation factor of getting two prettyboys (or manly men, sometimes,
though Prettyboy is the big, big draw) in intimate positions.


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