Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective
Section III, Outside Ourselves: Sex in Social Context; Chatper 7: LGBTQQPA(H), BSDM:The Alphabet Soup of Sexualities
They shed their clothes, leaving them where they fell, and dropped into Kirk's bunk together. Spock slid his hands around Kirk's back and down to his buttocks, pulling Kirk against him. He could not wait for the sensation of Kirk's naked body against his; when he finally felt it, it was ecstasy. Kirk was warm in some places and cool in others, his arms and chest and thighs like sculpted marble. The pulse in his throat thrilled against Spock's lips. Spock's hands shook as he caressed the curves of Kirk's backside.
Kirk's hands were not particularly steady, either, as he stroked Spock's chest, carding his fingers through the curling black hair. "You're beautiful," Kirk whispered, "and all of a sudden I'm as nervous as a teenager."
-J.S. Cavalcante, "The Word Withheld."
This is an excerpt of slash fiction, a form of fanfiction, and yes, it features Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame. Fanfiction writers extend and create stories about fictional character from mass media. Slash writers specialize in transgressive, homoerotic stories about same-sex character who may or may not be "buddies" in a television show, film, or book. The stories generally have a sexual element, if not actual sex scenes between well-known, presumably heterosexual make characters. Slash is an intriguing genre, as most of the writers and fans are female, the character are male, and the sex can be hot and graphic. In a very real way, slash writers may represent the future of sexual identities--fluidity, liberation from labels, and individual sexual determinism.
Well, what do you guys think? We we the future of sexual identity?
In addendum:
Yes, rad, it really is a book. Lol
The lettered title is SO stupid. The Q's don't look like Q's. Or... Anything. Loop-dee-loop. Click on the images, they get bigger.