Brief musings on sexuality, fetish, orientation, sociology, backlash

[azurelunatic]

This "slash" thing, where generally straight women get off on the concept of attractive two men having sex -- I wonder how related it is to the long-standing straight male fondness for seeing two attractive women having sex.

Perhaps the growing numbers of women interested in slash is a natural progression from the way women's sexuality is becoming less retrained and more publically discussed. It could also be backlash from repression.

One of the things that boggled me most when I heard about it was that segment of the slashgirl population (and the segment of the "I Like Hot Girl-on-Girl Action" population) who fetishize same-sex action, yet think nonfictional same-sex action is immoral, or don't think that same-sex relationships and homosexual or bisexual people deserve the same rights and options that opposite sex relationships/heterosexuals do.

People are weird.

Comments

[cawingcrow.livejournal.com]

Would you believe people are already writing academic research articles on the topic? Though I wasn't that impressed with the article, myself. If your school has the EbscoHOST Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, it is full text.

Title: Slash Fiction and Human Mating Psychology.
Authors: Salmon, Catherine, Symons, Don
Source: Journal of Sex Research; Feb2004, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p94, 7p

Subject Terms: ROMANCE fiction
PORNOGRAPHY
EVOLUTION
ROMANCE literature
FICTION
SEX
FEMALES
SEX (Psychology)
Abstract: The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography, both multibillion dollar global industries, under score how different male and female erotic fantasies actually are. These differences reflect the different selection pressures males and females faced over human evolutionary history and highlight the utility of using unobtrusive measures to study aspects of human nature. Salmon & Symons (2001) examined slash (the depiction of a romantic or sexual relationship between typically heterosexual male television protagonists, such as Kirk and Spock from StarTrek) as an erotic genre, placing it in the context of romance and female sexual psychology. The topic is revisited here with attention also being paid to slash between two female television characters and the appeal to people of fiction in general.

ISSN: 0022-4499
Accession Number: 12532572
Persistent link to this record: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=12532572&db=pbh
Database: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

[azurelunatic]

Oh, I think they were doing research for that on the Sith Academy list back in the day. Hm, I wonder if any of the Grey Side people would be interested in hearing that it's done and published...

[boojum.livejournal.com]

There's non-slash male-male sex intended for female titillation, too. Diana Gabaldon's books, for example.

There's a cultural thingie that negatively correlates sex with respect. I don't think they should necessarily be positively correlated, but a negative correlation, especially in people who are actually having sex -- euw.

[azurelunatic]

I was very indignant to be told, when I was 17 or so, that I was the kind of girl that one married. Namely, the "I respect you, so I shan't fuck you," sense.

I was probably indignant at you about it at that time...