On Börek, slash and other things

[wiseheart]

Okay, in case anyone is curious what the Stroyerian restaurant owner looks like in my Equinox story, here is a picture:
Börek

The website belongs to a German guy, and it's great, I can only recommend it to all Star Trek fans. The fanfic section, however, gives some interesting insight into male and female preferences.



The guy refuses to archive any slash stories (or any stories he doesn't personally like, or which supposedly don't match the philosophy of Star Trek, whatever in his opinion that might be). Now, that's his right, he owns the site, after all.

But it's interesting to see that this refusal practically leaves him with male authors. I always knew that "slash", as it is usually interpreted, is mostly written by women, and that even the most graphic slash stories (unless they are written by someone who gets off on torturing and humiliating their characters) are still somehow romantic, if not mushy.

I tried my luck with gay erotica written by guys, but I must say, it doesn't do a thing for me. Well, except turning me off majorly. There are some exceptions, of course, like the Kindred romance stories of my friend Mogs, but the rest is just monotone description of the mechanics of coupling. If you've read one, you've read all of them.

Said friend of mine likes my stories, and there are a few other men who love same-gender romances written by female authors, even though sometimes they laugh their heads off over certain descriptions. There is this one guy called Minotaur who even runs a website to help female authors avoiding the most common and ridiculous mistakes.

No, I don't actually have a point with all this babbling. I just find the whole thing interesting.

Comments

[jilba.livejournal.com]

EEKK!!! That guy is seriously ugly. I agree with you about men writing about sex, gay or otherwise. Most of em don't have a clue how to make it read as anything but a 'how to' manual

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and what I found most disturbing was the fact that some of them seem regularly obsessed with partners who stink. In the literal sense of the word. As if being unwashed would enhance sex appeal by default.

Although, if I consider this, the appeareance of Viggogorn makes a lot more sense. Also the fact why everyone seems to fall for him in a great majority of slashfics at once. *g*

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Yike, that's scary too! I have no idea why smelling dreadful is supposed to be sexy, I mean, come on, we've all sat next to the co worker who has bad BO or the smelly kid at school, and I know all it did for me was make my nose hurt!