This is a contentious subject and I'm going to try and talk about it without my bias coming through (I prefer het to slash and pretty much always have-I'm female, for one thing, so I find it hard to empathise in slash scenarios. My own sexuality aside, I do find some slash representations of M/M relationships heteronormantive and that to me is not something I can suspend my disbelief over very well.) Mostly, I think there's a lot to be said for two pretty men together. Human beings are visual and greedy, so the idea has a lot of appeal. Also if, to be crude, you like cock two is probably better than one. However, all that said, I think there's also a degree in which female sexuality is still difficult to represent and for women to empathise with-it's seen as only for those in the peak of physical fitness or attractiveness and that it exists only for the titillation of the men who are watching it. Ariel Levy makes a brilliant point in her book Female Chauvinist Pigs about how women are now experiencing "empty bodies"-they exist, but only as a conduit for male desire. So I don't blame a lot of women for stepping away from that. Anyway, enough of my thoughts on yaoi this.
Mostly, I think there's a lot to be said for two pretty men together. Human beings are visual and greedy, so the idea has a lot of appeal. Also if, to be crude, you like cock two is probably better than one. However, all that said, I think there's also a degree in which female sexuality is still difficult to represent and for women to empathise with-it's seen as only for those in the peak of physical fitness or attractiveness and that it exists only for the titillation of the men who are watching it. Ariel Levy makes a brilliant point in her book Female Chauvinist Pigs about how women are now experiencing "empty bodies"-they exist, but only as a conduit for male desire. So I don't blame a lot of women for stepping away from that.
Anyway, enough of my thoughts on yaoi this.
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