Slash meta #3 (and probably final): please discuss!

[thrihyrne]

Thank you so much for those involved thus far! Feel free to ask friends who you think would be interested in sharing their views who may not know me from Eve's housecat and send them on over. All of these posts are public, but you do have to be a registered LJ'er. Women only, however, for this particular article.

My final question, and the crux in some ways of what I think I'll focus on for the article: if you're an R to NC-17 slasher, whether writing, reading, artist, viewer of art, vidder or video viewer, when the characters get intimate with one another, are you strictly a voyeur, do you do a bit of self-insert of a sort into one or both of the characters, or is it a combination? If a combination, does it depend on the pairing/fandom/something else? In other words, are you just watching the men together, or are you putting yourself into the action, but within the body of one or both of them? I'll be very interested to read your comments as this, I think, is what fascinates me the most. And hopefully will be interesting to Filament readers!

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

I am definitely a voyeur. I never insert myself - well, I'm a girl and this is all about the men. Sometimes I think I want to be a man, as in experience sex from a man's perspective, but only as a gay guy. I have no interest in wanting to have sex as a man with a woman, I mean. But generally no, I don't actively think about that when I'm reading or writing slash; I'm always outside of the physical action, watching. I do, however, like to get into the emotional and sensual/physical sensations of the person whose POV I'm reading/writing. I want them to read as real and for me, how they feel is very important. I don't just want to know what happened, but how that affected them; how did they feel, both physically and emotionally about what was happening?

And yes, despite what I said about preferring the sensual aspect of them touching, I am perfectly happy reading or writing full-on porn as long as it's m/m! ;-)