[poll] fic-writing and sexuality

[wisdomeagle]

Is there a correlation between sexuality/sexual orientation/sexual preference and your fic writing habits? Many discussions of "why I slash" suggest that there is

Comments

typo

[hermionesviolin]

If you write thirty fics a year and one of them is boyslash, that's probably got "a good deal" though.

"got" should be "not," and I'm not entirely sure about the "though."

Re: typo

[wisdomeagle]

:) Thanks.

[cheshire23]

So, is a threesome het or slash? Just curious...

(Don't mind me, I'm on a bit of a kick for Simon/River/Kaylee right now. :))

[wisdomeagle]

Oy, I write a ton of threesomes but that didn't occur to me when formulating the poll! I think I would say that m/f/f threesomes count as het and femslash.

[wisdomeagle]

Thank you for noting that (I think it's relevant to the ideas I have percolating).

[amycooper]

I suspect that any time you start attempting to create categories for gender and sexuality, you're opening up a can of worms.

I'm bisexual and I'm not that crazy about being lumped in with omnisexual or pansexual. There's a whole lot of men and women out there that I am not attracted too and have absolutely no interested in romantically. Omni- and pan- seem to imply all or everyone. The fact that I am bi and no, would rather not fuck everyone I see can sometimes be a hard thing to get across, along with the fact that I am bi and monogamous.

Furthermore, pansexual or omnisexual always strikes me as terms that describe loving or being attracted to people regardless of gender. What attracts to each gender is different. I have some things I find attractive in men and a completely different things that I find attractive in women.

[hermionesviolin]

I think most people who identify as "omnisexual" or "pansexual" don't mean that they have no standards (or even that they're non-monogamous), but rather that they find "bi" problematic for whatever reason (personally, I often use the term "bisexual" for myself for ease and clarity -- and am a very picky monogamous person, fwiw -- but I dislike the implication that my attractions are split exactly 50/50, and I also recognize as problematic the implication that there are only two sexes to which to be attracted . . . thus eliding people who do see themselves as fitting into the gender binary

[amycooper]

so it's interesting to me to hear a different understanding of that statement.

As it is with me. I haven't heard the other two terms very often, but whenever I have, I have usually heard it in terms of "will f*ck everything that moves." I have never heard anyone that self identifies by either of those terms. Perhaps that is much of my aversion. I generally don't tell many people of my sexual preference unless they are close nowadays because I'm married and people generally react in complete confusion or go "Oh, so you and your husband enjoy threesomes?" *headdesk* And it is hard at times to explain how I love my husband, will hopefully be with him to the end of our lives, but I am still bi. It is frustrating because most people seem to understand that you can be in a monogamous straight relationship, but your are still straight.

[cheshire23]

I've heard of people self-identifying as pansexual mostly because of attraction to those who don't fit into the binary gender boxes very well.

[eponis]

I'm writing so little nowadays that I felt like nothing really counts as "a good deal." And really, m/m slash does dominate, because many of the biggest ships in my biggest fandoms are m/m. But I went ahead and checked all of them, since I've written all four, and don't feel a particular preference between them, given a story of equal quality.