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[bubosquared]

Was trudging through In Progress folder. Came across rough draft of rant I wrote. Quite a while ago. So, on the subject of smut, and keep in mind this is present company wholly excluded (cause the lot of you are great smut writers, those of you who write, and write smut):

THERE IS MORE TO M/M SMUT THAN ANAL SEX!

Godfuckingdammit. I mean. Look, there's plenty of gay men who rarely or even never engage in this activity. There's blowjobs, and handjobs, and frottage, and what the fuck ever else you can come up with. Be a little creative, for fuck's sake. If I'm going to read smut, I want it to be original. not just plain old average Tab-A-Slot-B stuff. Oh and hey, while I'm at it:

THERE IS MORE TO SLASH THAN SMUT!

I. Am. SICK and TIRED! Of the attitude (both from slashers themselves and from "outsiders") that a story isn't slash ("just" "pre-slash") uless they've had actual (onscreen) sex, that slash is all about putting characters in homosexual situations and bla bla bla and bla bla bla. Aaargh!

Look. I'm not one of these doofuses who delude themselves into thinking we're writing highly controversial stuff, that we're being guerillas against TPTB or whatnot. Howthefuckever. I do like to think that these stories have merit as that. Stories. Words strung together into sentences, sentences into a plot, a story, dialogue. Something with maybe less literary value than, say, War And Peace, but I never aimed for that even with my non-fanfic writing.

Yes, I write erotica, or porn, or whatever you wanna call it. Smut. Often, I don't write explicit smut. Sometimes, I write nothing but explicit smut. Can we please look beyond the smut and at the story, please? The smut is just a part of that. And not usually an essential part, either.

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[ex-frown243.livejournal.com]

UGH! Thank you! I was just discussing this with someone yesterday. Frankly, I don't understand at all why blowjobs, et al, are considered somehow less sexy than actual *intercourse*. It's crazy that it's somehow a norm for any sexual encounter in a fic to include it.

And, while we're at it, why is it that for some fandoms, if your story doesn't include some form of hardcore mattress dancing, it just flat-out sucks? Arrrrrrrgh.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I know! Especially because really, pick up an autobiographical gay (er*tic) book, and you'll notice that anal sex is really an exception rather than the rule. (Ex.: Puppies)

I have a theory about this, but it ties in with my big slash theory. Maybe I'll get round to sharing that once.

*cough* Some fandoms? *raises eyebrow*

(Okay, I guess there's fandoms where s*x matters less. Tiny ones, like S*x Pistols. And the portion of NSync fandom where I reside.)

(Asterixes because of my company's damned filter. Gr.)