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Why do some straight women read/write male-on-male fiction?

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Question - (15 June 2010) 3 Answers - (Newest, 15 June 2010)
A female Indonesia age 36-40, anonymous writes:

Hello there, I'm a 23 year old woman from Indonesia. I am single and heterosexual, I can tell, because I don't feel like it with another women. A pair of breasts is more than enough. I am also very into guys, and Dear Lord, some guys are made just for temptation purpose, ain't they?

Anyway, I read manga once, when I was in high school. You know manga right? It's some kind of comic book but drawn and written by Japanese mangaka. Somehow this is different type of manga. It's very erotic, but the sex is happening between men. I could not forget it, and keep thinking about it. You know that my cultural background is probably different than yours. Things like sex don't normally being talked freely and openly.

So since then, I keep looking for porn stuff which envolved gay men having sex. I am pretty imaginative, so my favorites are reading materials rather than graphic gay sex clips, which sometime could be rather too much.The reading material here is not just reading material you could easily find on those gay site. It's something that related to popcultures.

Let me explain.

You know Harry Potter right? Harry and Draco forever remain enemy/rival to each other, at least on the world created by JK Rowling. But try to type "Harry x Draco", or "Harry Draco slash", or "Harry Draco NC-17", or "Harry Draco Slave", or "Harry Draco BDSM", or "Harry Draco yaoi" (I can be pretty inventive aye?) on Google. You will find thousands of site which contain reading materials which are called slash fiction. Those are fictions written by fans who love to see the dinamic between the characters of a fandom (fictional world), which contains male x male relationship, even if Harry Potter is meant to be the straightest man ever.

Thank God, I am not alone. Because most of fanfiction / slash fiction writers are female, who also are straight. We recreate a fandom, may be use all the elements of the original story, or just part of it, or just the characters, and then we proofread it, edit it, and publish it (freely or we will get sued) on sites. Most convenient place is probably livejournal.com. We love to see Merlin hooking up with Arthur (The Adventure of Merlin, BBC), Rodney having sex with McSheppard (Stargate Atlantis), Akira begging to Hikaru to fuck him silly (Hikaru No Go) and the list is still very long.

So what I want to hear from you is your opinion according to the matter. I mean is it like how men love to watch lesbian porn. But not all of us love to see those hardcore clips. We love to see our men in words, and sometimes pictures. Everything is mostly subtle, even the hardcore reading material. Rather than just get down with it, we love to prolong the excitement. Like I mentioned, create our own world, use your best prose, create porn and then get reviewed by other fans/readers.

Or, is it related to feminism, where, past days women are treated differently than men by society, and culture. It is probably very fun to see those men to have feminin side and act submissive. And probably because that women also, are not so comfortable to express their own sexuality. Unconciously they replace the male character and use them as subtitute body. I have read the article about this somewhere, and in you tube you could see an anthropologist talk about it and provide this theory.

Some agree, some are contra. They are more agree to the first, since sex is just sex. So just like men, it's absolutely normal for women to also like men get on sex act. I am probably standing between the two. Probably because raised in this country, where women are treated like second class citizen. I can totally relate to what the anthropologist said, and yeah, probably that's why I don't like lesbian act, I am not gay, yet I love to see men on men act excluding poorly made gay clips.

What do you think? Please help me to understand the more of me. Thanks in advance.

Confused Fangirl

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A reader, anonymous, writes (15 June 2010):

It's perfectly normal and healthy to enjoy male on male fiction. I myself adore it. There have been a lot of studies on why this happens, but there are so many women out there who feel exactly the same way. Yaoi is to appeal to women just as Yuri appeals to men. The pretty boys, the pure intimacy and the tenderness within it is much better than straight manga, most of the time.

When it comes to porn, it's simply because there is so much passion and real enjoyment in it. Women often look very bored during sex, especially when it comes to porn, but this is impossible for gay men, since it would be physically impossible for them to even HAVE sex if they weren't turned on by it. And, well, it's two men. For a straight woman, it's perfectly normal to be attracted to that.

Please don't worry - fanfiction, yaoi manga, gay porn; it's all perfectly healthy :)

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A male reader, olderthandirt  +, writes (15 June 2010):

olderthandirt agony auntI gotta say that's a first for me. The only part i kinda relate to is the fact that men like to watch gir on girl sex...for me its mainly to watch thier orgasms they seem to have more intense O's with same sex than with hetro sex. Its all in the big O!maybe that's the common link. i dont know cause i never see m-on-m very much.

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A reader, anonymous, writes (15 June 2010):

If you like funny fan fiction I'd suggest going on the facebook group "I'd join te dark side to f*ck Severus snape" it's sooooooooo funny.

Anyway, the question, I think it's for the same reason guys like watching lesbians... It's watching what you like without having to bother watching someone of the same sex. Just my interpretation of the situation.

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