WHY DON'T MORE WOMEN AND MORE QUEER WOMEN ESPECIALLY WRITE FEMSLASH???????????
I resemble that remark. I'm a lesbian who mostly writes m/m slash. I do think that femslash - and even heterosexual sex - feels a lot more personal to me to write, because it discusses a woman's experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but being quite private about my own sex life and never having written anything about sex before I took up fanfic writing, it felt more comfortable to me to have some distance from the subject. In addition, I like the challenge of writing sex from a male POV. I want it to sound as real as if I had experienced it myself, when obviously I haven't. I feel the same way about writing telepathy :-)
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I resemble that remark. I'm a lesbian who mostly writes m/m slash. I do think that femslash - and even heterosexual sex - feels a lot more personal to me to write, because it discusses a woman's experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but being quite private about my own sex life and never having written anything about sex before I took up fanfic writing, it felt more comfortable to me to have some distance from the subject. In addition, I like the challenge of writing sex from a male POV. I want it to sound as real as if I had experienced it myself, when obviously I haven't. I feel the same way about writing telepathy :-)