Hm... I was reading these questions, and realised that my motive for enjoying and writing slash had very little to do with looking at men, at or men's bodies... Truth is, I don't. Not in RL, and not in the form of explicit fanart or vids either.
I enjoy slash because it is throwing together characters I care about, and because it adds a sexual dimension to power struggles or power dynamics (which is what I enjoy most, and tend to write. Romance isn't so much my thing - I can read and enjoy it, if it has a bit of tension/conflict to it, but I don't write it).
I guess one of the reasons I like slash is that you don't have any established het power dynamics, and that male characters lend themselves better to more violent interactions... But even when writing porn, I have no clear image of how bodies actually look, apart from general features we know from canon...
Weirdly enough I read mostly NC-17 and R ratings. But your question made me realise that whatever draws me to slash, it's not bodies ;). No idea whether that helps, or is just weird :).
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:37 pm (UTC)I enjoy slash because it is throwing together characters I care about, and because it adds a sexual dimension to power struggles or power dynamics (which is what I enjoy most, and tend to write. Romance isn't so much my thing - I can read and enjoy it, if it has a bit of tension/conflict to it, but I don't write it).
I guess one of the reasons I like slash is that you don't have any established het power dynamics, and that male characters lend themselves better to more violent interactions... But even when writing porn, I have no clear image of how bodies actually look, apart from general features we know from canon...
Weirdly enough I read mostly NC-17 and R ratings. But your question made me realise that whatever draws me to slash, it's not bodies ;). No idea whether that helps, or is just weird :).