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sariagrayThis is how I feel about all of my WIPs. Yes. My WIP folder has a theme song. Don't judge me. So, to all of my unfinished stories, I dedicate this to you.
Now, I'd like to think that it hasn't stopped. The article makes it sound as though sexuality has been stuck from the 1980s onward. Maybe, in a way, it has. Conveniently, the technological revolution picked up where it seems to have left off. It started to gain steam in the 1980s and continues to this day.
But what if those two revolutions are somehow linked? That's where fan fiction comes in (as well as a whole host of other mediums, but I'm much less familiar with those and won't be focusing on them as much). The anonymity of the internet, combined with the availability of almost everything and the ability to socially network on extremely specific points of focus, are absolutely revolutionizing sexuality.
Right. So here I am, in the midst of the Torchwood fandom. My friends (people I've friended and/or those who have friended me) totals at 74. 97.3% of those people (yes. I did the math) are on that list because of Torchwood fan fiction. Now, to any of those 72 people, I could post a request for, say, Ianto/Gwen (and really, you guys, I want some, so rec or write, 'kay?). I can even go further and say that I want Ianto/Gwen voyeurism fic. I can get really specific, too, and say, "You know, I really want there to be two-way glass in some room where Gwen's getting changed. And Ianto sees her and jerks off" or something to that effect. I can even say that I want meta-voyeurism. Jack watching Ianto watch Gwen. That sort of thing. (SOMEONE WRITE THIS FOR ME NAO).
"Okay," you're saying, "fine. It sounds hot. Your point?"
My point is that I CANNOT go to one of my RL friends and say, "You know, I'd really like to read some smut about voyeurism right now." Well. I could, but it's highly unlikely that they would respond favorably. Some of them would. But they would NOT say, "Oh, okay! I will write you some right now/go to my bookmark list and find all of the voyeurism stories I've collected."
This, I suppose, is a small step in being ABLE to have kinks and be free from embarassment, to even have fluid kinks, or a wide range. Honestly, before fan fiction, I was pretty...uneducated isn't the right word, but perhaps unaware? And then to be able to find a group of people and just...I don't know, ask for words about various sexual activities is entirely liberating.
But basically? This was just to get you all to write me Jack/Ianto/Gwen meta-voyeurism fic. Please?
In other news, I have decided that fan fiction is part of the new wave of the sexual revolution.
While I know it's not a definitive source, Wikipedia offers a good, brief summary of the sexual revolution.
While I know it's not a definitive source, Wikipedia offers a good, brief summary of the sexual revolution.
The sexual revolution (also known as a time of "sexual liberation") was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s into the 1980s. Many of the changes in sexual norms from this period have since become mainstream.
Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships (primarily marriage). Contraception and the pill, public nudity, the normalization of homosexuality and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed.
Now, I'd like to think that it hasn't stopped. The article makes it sound as though sexuality has been stuck from the 1980s onward. Maybe, in a way, it has. Conveniently, the technological revolution picked up where it seems to have left off. It started to gain steam in the 1980s and continues to this day.
But what if those two revolutions are somehow linked? That's where fan fiction comes in (as well as a whole host of other mediums, but I'm much less familiar with those and won't be focusing on them as much). The anonymity of the internet, combined with the availability of almost everything and the ability to socially network on extremely specific points of focus, are absolutely revolutionizing sexuality.
Right. So here I am, in the midst of the Torchwood fandom. My friends (people I've friended and/or those who have friended me) totals at 74. 97.3% of those people (yes. I did the math) are on that list because of Torchwood fan fiction. Now, to any of those 72 people, I could post a request for, say, Ianto/Gwen (and really, you guys, I want some, so rec or write, 'kay?). I can even go further and say that I want Ianto/Gwen voyeurism fic. I can get really specific, too, and say, "You know, I really want there to be two-way glass in some room where Gwen's getting changed. And Ianto sees her and jerks off" or something to that effect. I can even say that I want meta-voyeurism. Jack watching Ianto watch Gwen. That sort of thing. (SOMEONE WRITE THIS FOR ME NAO).
"Okay," you're saying, "fine. It sounds hot. Your point?"
My point is that I CANNOT go to one of my RL friends and say, "You know, I'd really like to read some smut about voyeurism right now." Well. I could, but it's highly unlikely that they would respond favorably. Some of them would. But they would NOT say, "Oh, okay! I will write you some right now/go to my bookmark list and find all of the voyeurism stories I've collected."
This, I suppose, is a small step in being ABLE to have kinks and be free from embarassment, to even have fluid kinks, or a wide range. Honestly, before fan fiction, I was pretty...uneducated isn't the right word, but perhaps unaware? And then to be able to find a group of people and just...I don't know, ask for words about various sexual activities is entirely liberating.
But basically? This was just to get you all to write me Jack/Ianto/Gwen meta-voyeurism fic. Please?
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Date: 2011-08-29 11:49 pm (UTC)I'm not going to lie to you. This is tempting. *_*
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Date: 2011-08-30 12:06 am (UTC)ETA: By which I do not mean that I have completely convinced you yet. But I'll get there. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-30 01:12 am (UTC)And if I didn't have so much porn on my plate already, I'd attempt the Gwen/Ianto/Jack for you. In the stead of my babies and cookies. :)
I'll see.
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Date: 2011-08-30 03:30 am (UTC)That meta sounds hot, and were I any good at writing smut, I'd try it.
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Date: 2011-08-30 03:35 am (UTC)This, at least would be not depressing to write? (At least I don't think it would? :P You never know. :P)
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Date: 2011-08-30 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-08-30 11:36 am (UTC)And the thought of going up to any RL friend and confessing to the urge to read any form of porn, let alone going into the particulars of what I want to read and begging them to write it...ain't ever going to happen.
Thus completely proving my point that real friends, uh, convince each other to write porn? LOL. This needs to be on a fridge magnet or something.
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Date: 2011-08-30 09:37 pm (UTC)Overall, love your ideas on the liberation of the mind and simply being aware of the choices/ideas in the world. Now, my brain goes meta and asks, "Is this a good thing?" Rule 34 aside, is your life enriched, do you have fuller experiences with REAL PEOPLE, because your have read fic on penile sounding? ;-)
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Date: 2011-08-30 10:00 pm (UTC)In retrospect, I have a handful of RL friends that I think I could say this to, but I probably wouldn't be taken that seriously. But asking anyone to write? HAH! "What do you want for your birthday?" "Write me sex scenes involving the following people, please?" That's an awkward conversation.
I would hang it up! Just. Not at work. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-30 10:04 pm (UTC)I think it's made me more open-minded about everything, to be honest, and absolutely more open with my sexuality. Not orientation-wise (was always pretty open about that), but with the idea of being a sexual individual and my own personal acceptance of that. That it's totally okay that such-and-such turns me on. Has it helped have "fuller experiences"? Not directly (i.e. sexual openness does not equal me actually...having sex?) but I think it's definitely changed the way I handle interaction.
This was probably a bit more drawn-out than you wanted it to be! :)
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Date: 2011-08-31 01:37 am (UTC)BUT NOW I'M DIGGING THROUGH MY BOOKMARKS TO FIND A REC.
Actually, the stuff you say is fascinating. I have to say, though, that there's a certain...hmmm...distance, I think, that I think we maintain in fandom? Because the kinks are happening to these characters. One fic writer who is writing a serious D/s fic mentioned at one point that she has no personal experience with any of the stuff she was writing, but she was learning and finding the process fascination. And I can say that a lot of the things I find pretty hot to read about do NOT sound tempting to try out on my own.
Then again, I have no problem with other people doing most of these things, so I suppose that's something? (I still have Lines. Some of the things I'll read fic on (dubcon) and some things I don't really read fic with (pedophilia...)
The things you do for love
Date: 2011-08-31 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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