I was introduced to Spike/Xander by a gay, male friend of mine. There was a fiction that he absolutely loved and wanted me to read. I'd seen slash fanfic, but never read any. We swapped stories and I became hooked. I love the interaction between the two characters. Also, there is just something about picturing these two beautiful men together that is enticing.
The only time I've had to defend my enjoyment of slash was to a female friend of mine who just didn't understand the attraction of two men. Her reasoning is that if the two men are gay, then they would have no interest in a woman, therefore you would have no shot, so why bother?
For me, someone else being turned on is a big turn on. When it comes to slash, the arousal factor has little to do with myself and everything to do with them. They are turned are, so I am turned on. There is also a kind of voyeur aspect to it. Male slash is something I am completely outside of. There is that element of watching something I shouldn't be seeing.
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Date: 2003-11-24 04:10 pm (UTC)The only time I've had to defend my enjoyment of slash was to a female friend of mine who just didn't understand the attraction of two men. Her reasoning is that if the two men are gay, then they would have no interest in a woman, therefore you would have no shot, so why bother?
For me, someone else being turned on is a big turn on. When it comes to slash, the arousal factor has little to do with myself and everything to do with them. They are turned are, so I am turned on. There is also a kind of voyeur aspect to it. Male slash is something I am completely outside of. There is that element of watching something I shouldn't be seeing.