I don't think that quote really applies to me; I don't get that click of recognition at all.
I write and read slash *and* het, so when I want heterosexual sex in fiction, it's perfectly available to me and there's no need to substitute it for something else. I think a big part of the reason I'm interested in m/m slash is precisely because it's the one type of sex I've never experienced and never will in this lifetime. So I'm insanely, perhaps creepily, fascinated with it and curious about it. It has the appeal of the "forbidden" not because society forbids to me, but because my gender does. It's a way of "traveling" to "another place" in my imagination, and I've discovered that I really like it there.
That's tied into why I like fiction so much overall. I like to live in the heads of people who aren't me and don't have a life that's very much like mine. Writing self-inserts and autobiography doesn't do it for me (though of course every character I write winds up with a *little* of me in him or her, that can't be avoided); I write to try on other identities, other experiences, other places, other bodies, other souls.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:01 pm (UTC)I write and read slash *and* het, so when I want heterosexual sex in fiction, it's perfectly available to me and there's no need to substitute it for something else. I think a big part of the reason I'm interested in m/m slash is precisely because it's the one type of sex I've never experienced and never will in this lifetime. So I'm insanely, perhaps creepily, fascinated with it and curious about it. It has the appeal of the "forbidden" not because society forbids to me, but because my gender does. It's a way of "traveling" to "another place" in my imagination, and I've discovered that I really like it there.
That's tied into why I like fiction so much overall. I like to live in the heads of people who aren't me and don't have a life that's very much like mine. Writing self-inserts and autobiography doesn't do it for me (though of course every character I write winds up with a *little* of me in him or her, that can't be avoided); I write to try on other identities, other experiences, other places, other bodies, other souls.