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A quote that I feel it is nessecary to share with the slash-world. It comes from the book Dear Friends, an academic look at nineteenth century pictures of men together. The author is a gay man, and one of the running themes in the book is his struggle with the need to find affirmation and sexual subtext in the photographs.
... As an adolescent, I remember satisfying my yearning for representations of same-sex sexuality, of male flesh against male flesh, by looking at the photograohs of swimmers that illustrated the 'Junior lifesaving' manuals of the American Red Cross. In retrospect, that willful misuse of vernacular imagery had about it an unmistakeable charm, as did the accompanying projection of erotic scenarios onto the purely functional stagings of seminaked men in distress being rescued by others."
Proving once again that slash is hardly solely the domain of heterosexual women.
... As an adolescent, I remember satisfying my yearning for representations of same-sex sexuality, of male flesh against male flesh, by looking at the photograohs of swimmers that illustrated the 'Junior lifesaving' manuals of the American Red Cross. In retrospect, that willful misuse of vernacular imagery had about it an unmistakeable charm, as did the accompanying projection of erotic scenarios onto the purely functional stagings of seminaked men in distress being rescued by others."
Proving once again that slash is hardly solely the domain of heterosexual women.