Yeah, I'd say most everyone started out reading het (it's easily accessible offline and online) and later got into slash as well or dropped het for slash. One of my best friends only reads slash these days, with few exceptions. There are certain things I know I can hook her with in a het story (when lending her books) but it's not easy lol.
And I understand what you mean. There's plenty of stuff that I read to satisfy my kinks. (Slavefic totally isn't one of my kinks... Ahem, right. XD) That's what most of the fic online thrives on, satisfying kinks. That's why ppl write them and that's why other ppl read them. Good writing, as you mentioned, is of course an important issue too. I mean if you're tripping over typos or mistakes every other line, it takes you out of the story...
Oh I have so wondered about women and slash. I think it's so nonsensical that (at least here in the US) it's totally acceptable for men to be into seeing two women making out, etc. but it doesn't work the other way around. Obviously looking at the huge amount of slash out there, there are plenty of women into men being together, but it's not accepted in mainstream society that a lot of women would enjoy seeing two men like that. Sigh, double standards. I don't know how it is in the rest of the world though, when it comes to this issue.
Thanks for clarifying your feelings on the issue though. Like I said before, I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course. We all have our kinks! ;)
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Date: 2008-10-28 03:38 am (UTC)And I understand what you mean. There's plenty of stuff that I read to satisfy my kinks. (Slavefic totally isn't one of my kinks... Ahem, right. XD) That's what most of the fic online thrives on, satisfying kinks. That's why ppl write them and that's why other ppl read them. Good writing, as you mentioned, is of course an important issue too. I mean if you're tripping over typos or mistakes every other line, it takes you out of the story...
Oh I have so wondered about women and slash. I think it's so nonsensical that (at least here in the US) it's totally acceptable for men to be into seeing two women making out, etc. but it doesn't work the other way around. Obviously looking at the huge amount of slash out there, there are plenty of women into men being together, but it's not accepted in mainstream society that a lot of women would enjoy seeing two men like that. Sigh, double standards. I don't know how it is in the rest of the world though, when it comes to this issue.
Thanks for clarifying your feelings on the issue though. Like I said before, I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course. We all have our kinks! ;)