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Me and fandom and sex
Jul. 8th, 2009 11:16 pmLet's talk about sex, since all of fandom seems unable to think of anything but. And who am I to ignore fandom's True Love? It may or may not be clear to you yet, dear (probably nonexistent) reader, but I have of late been thinking a great deal about asexuality, especially as it relates to fandom. The only fic I have thus far posted was about a non-sexual relationship (with, in my mind, one of the two characters being asexual). My last post talked about the Doctor as asexual. The fic I'm currently editing in order to post has a character who believes she's asexual for a while.
I find that I am more likely than most people to see characters as asexual. The Doctor for example, as I previously mentioned. Or Spock. As far as I can tell, Vulcans are functionally asexual whenever they're not in Pon Farr, which is most of the time (oh, they may deep down be having sexual feelings, but those are FEELINGS and to be ruthlessly repressed. Also sex is something that tends to break one's control of one's self, which I can't see Vulcans willingly involving themselves in. Which means that Vulcans may or may not have sexual desires, but either way they wouldn't go about having sex or even thinking about sex. Which means then that nearly ALL the lovely Kirk/Spock fic out there reads to me as automatically out of character. Now I don't mind too much, as I really do enjoy K/S fic. I just wish that there were a few more authors who would treat Spock's sexuality a little more like what I see as canon. Actually, I wish there were more fics out there about asexual characters at ALL. But fandom appears to be mostly slash-centric.
Not that I'm complaining too much, since I do enjoy a good slash fic meself. In fact I really love slash fic dearly (and surprisingly strongly since I was only converted to slash about eight months ago. I blame SGA. And in particular I blame Rodney and John for being so awesome together. And I blame A Beautiful Lifetime Event by shalott for introducing me to their awesomeness)
I am in fact very interested in the wide varieties of sexuality expressed within fandom. I just also happen to be less interested in the actual, y'know, sex. Unlike what appears to be a lot of the fandom world, I do not read fanfic solely for the joy of the smut scenes. I in fact find it annoying when a sex scene is stuck in and slows down the plot. Now I'm not saying I'm AGAINST sex scenes; I'm just against GRATUITOUS sex scenes. If there is a reason why the characters have to be sexing it up, some part of the emotional arc or plot arc that needs the sex, then that's all well and good. Unfortunately most of fandom seems to see sex scenes as... I dunno, scene breaks or something. Which then of course requires one to come at the very end to close off the story -- when to me the story seemed to be done already BEFORE the characters hopped in the sack.
And I can't think of a good way to end this entry tidily, so it will now just end.
I find that I am more likely than most people to see characters as asexual. The Doctor for example, as I previously mentioned. Or Spock. As far as I can tell, Vulcans are functionally asexual whenever they're not in Pon Farr, which is most of the time (oh, they may deep down be having sexual feelings, but those are FEELINGS and to be ruthlessly repressed. Also sex is something that tends to break one's control of one's self, which I can't see Vulcans willingly involving themselves in. Which means that Vulcans may or may not have sexual desires, but either way they wouldn't go about having sex or even thinking about sex. Which means then that nearly ALL the lovely Kirk/Spock fic out there reads to me as automatically out of character. Now I don't mind too much, as I really do enjoy K/S fic. I just wish that there were a few more authors who would treat Spock's sexuality a little more like what I see as canon. Actually, I wish there were more fics out there about asexual characters at ALL. But fandom appears to be mostly slash-centric.
Not that I'm complaining too much, since I do enjoy a good slash fic meself. In fact I really love slash fic dearly (and surprisingly strongly since I was only converted to slash about eight months ago. I blame SGA. And in particular I blame Rodney and John for being so awesome together. And I blame A Beautiful Lifetime Event by shalott for introducing me to their awesomeness)
I am in fact very interested in the wide varieties of sexuality expressed within fandom. I just also happen to be less interested in the actual, y'know, sex. Unlike what appears to be a lot of the fandom world, I do not read fanfic solely for the joy of the smut scenes. I in fact find it annoying when a sex scene is stuck in and slows down the plot. Now I'm not saying I'm AGAINST sex scenes; I'm just against GRATUITOUS sex scenes. If there is a reason why the characters have to be sexing it up, some part of the emotional arc or plot arc that needs the sex, then that's all well and good. Unfortunately most of fandom seems to see sex scenes as... I dunno, scene breaks or something. Which then of course requires one to come at the very end to close off the story -- when to me the story seemed to be done already BEFORE the characters hopped in the sack.
And I can't think of a good way to end this entry tidily, so it will now just end.
