Okay, ropo sent me here and told me to say something about slash.
First: where does slash happen? A lot depends on the fandom. In some fandoms, the main pairing is het. In The X-Files, most fic centers around the Mulder/Scully relationship. There's slash, but it doesn't have the same audience that MSR does. Smallville, however, is so gay that the dominant pairing is Clark/Lex. There's het, but there's way more slash. Buffy probably sleeps with more guys than girls. Spike sleeps with both. It depends on the characters you have, and who works with who.
Why does m/m slash happen? Because it's hot. Or, you know, it's not. Whatever floats your boat, but people write m/m slash because they like to read it. Slash has very little to do with sexual orientation. Just because a straight girl likes to read m/m slash doesn't mean she's not interested in het sex out there in the real world. All fanfic is a form of fantasy, and sex in fanfic is just an extension of that.
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Date: 2003-06-10 08:44 pm (UTC)First: where does slash happen? A lot depends on the fandom. In some fandoms, the main pairing is het. In The X-Files, most fic centers around the Mulder/Scully relationship. There's slash, but it doesn't have the same audience that MSR does. Smallville, however, is so gay that the dominant pairing is Clark/Lex. There's het, but there's way more slash. Buffy probably sleeps with more guys than girls. Spike sleeps with both. It depends on the characters you have, and who works with who.
Why does m/m slash happen? Because it's hot. Or, you know, it's not. Whatever floats your boat, but people write m/m slash because they like to read it. Slash has very little to do with sexual orientation. Just because a straight girl likes to read m/m slash doesn't mean she's not interested in het sex out there in the real world. All fanfic is a form of fantasy, and sex in fanfic is just an extension of that.