[ SECRET POST #3888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3888 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

Of course fandom sexualizes teenagers. Fandom is full of teenagers who're curious about sex.

[(Anonymous)]

This is true. When I was 14, 15, 16 - I was reading the dirtiest Gundam Wing fic possible. But the characters were my age! I would NOT be comfortable reading that now, but fandom is how a lot of teens explore sexual interest and ideas.

[otakugal15]

Honestly? With how the GW boys acted (along with the girls/women on that show as well), I'd be fine with it. That show? Their ages WERE really only numbers.

Hell, most of the time these days? I FORGET that Heero was only 15. Quatre is the only one I can sorta even SEE as 15...and even then...he acts like he's 18 or older.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I have zero interest in shipping teenagers and haven't for years, not just due to any squick factor but because I'm just not interested in the lives of teenagers - too far removed from my current life. However, for all I know, a fic shipping two teen characters was written by a teen, and that's not at all weird or objectionable to me that a teen would do that.

[erinptah]

Very true.

Or adults who are looking back and reflecting on their own teenage experiences, where it might have nothing to do with how they relate to teens in the present as an adult.

And there are other relevant differences -- say, the casting that often happens with teenage characters. If some of the students in Glee are supposed to be 15 in a certain episode, but they're all played by people who are 20 or older, are adult viewers not supposed to be attracted to these actors in their 20s?

That's never (as far as I know) an issue with characters who are supposed to be 7.

[nightscale]

When I was a teen I shipped many teens with adults and each other because it was the same age-range as me.

As an adult I don't tend to ship teen characters as much and when I do it's more of a 'this idea is cute but that's about it' kind of way. But generally teen characters don't interest me as much anymore.

But even then I don't care if adults are shipping teen/teen ships or teen/adult ships, it isn't real and fiction allows you to give way more control to both parties than they might have in real life.

[dani_phantasma]

I started really exploring my sexuality at like 18 or 19 because of how aggressive sheltered my upbringing was. We were banned from playing Sims for years because you could make women kiss.

So not everyone in fandom grew up in situation where they could explore their sexualities when they were younger. I projected myself onto a younger person because that's how I felt and the maturity level I was at.

[(Anonymous)]

Basically this.

Not only was I unreasonably sheltered as a kid, but I was raised in such a way that anything involving masturbation, sex, and even romance was bad, which caused me to feel supremely uncomfortable about all three for years. I was in my late thirties when I broke away from my family and started figuring all that shit out.

I feel like I missed out on so, so much. And that's why I love writing from the perspectives of teenagers/young adults sometimes. I never got to experience any of the stuff other people take for granted. So when I write from the perspective of a YA, I can put myself in their shoes for a bit and experience what I'd never been allowed to - the good, the bad, and everything in between.

I can't even tell you how much this (and not just writing, but reading, too) has helped me not only come to terms with my abusive upbringing, but also SAFELY figure out my sexuality, desires, kinks, fetishes, squicks, triggers, etc.

But I guess I'm just some big old pervert - oh, I mean pedophile - to fandom these days.