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[asimplechord]

I think I'm missing something. Please to be 'splaining?

J sent me a link to this article this morning with the comment that the author clearly didn't know about slash fanfiction (or websites like Gay Porn for Girls, was my unvoiced thought).

Anyway.

On my lunchbreak I went ahead and read the entire article, and I sorta think I missed something.

Lawson says

I know no women, although they may exist, who find the notion of male homosexual activity erotically exciting.

But then a few paragraphs later on, she says

One thing is true: men's sexual fantasy involves straight women having lesbian sex, which is rather different from imagining them as lesbian. And the truth is that straight women have the same fantasy

Isn't that a contradiction of the first statement? Or am I missing something? Is it that getting turned on by imagining two men having sex not the same as imagining that they are really gay, or at least not completely straight? Because, I don't know, when I watch gay porn or read slash fic, I'm not thinking, "Yeah, they're having sex, but they're not gay, they just love each other or are waiting for the right woman (me) to come along." Generally, my thought processes are more, "Holy hell, that's hot. Losing... brain... function..."

*is confused*

Dude, just as an aside, this whole binary sexuality as a defining personality characteristic irritates me. You might not realize it if you only know me via fandom, but sex, the writing, thinking or having of, doesn't occupy my entire brain or life.

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[angela-snape.livejournal.com]

Seems like a contradiction to me.