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Why do lesbians write slash? I mean I'm not complaining but ~~isn't it better to write femmslash~~

Well if you put it that way, it's why there are straight girls that write femmslash. It's something different from what they experience and that is arousing and interesting to think about.

I'm a straight girl who loves to write femmeslash. Idk, there's something awesome about something outside my own experience.

I dunno, I'm a lesbian and has no interest in femmslash whatsoever. It's fun?

for many of the same reasons we'd write femslash (which i have done too), i.e. wanting to write queer storylines. why there's more slash than femslash, probably has a lot to do with the fact that there are more male characters in general, more male characters who have any kind of interaction with each other, etc.

and for me personally, it's hard to explain, but even tho i identify with m/m slash in the sense that they're queer stories and such, writing femslash feels much more PERSONAL. and it's silly but i've also felt like, there'd be a stricter expectation to write it all PERFECTLY since it's what we KNOW. i know that's not true but i can't help feeling it!

that said, i wish there WAS more femslash. not having as many female characters/relationships isn't an excuse for it to be so rare.

I have always wondered this, too.

My main two reasons are 1) my OTP is m/m slash, it's a character thing, and 2) femmeslash feels more personal and is thus harder to write, m/m makes for better escapism.

Also, buttsex is hot and there's hardly any of it in f/f.

ahh i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels it's way more personal!

and ia with your also. there should be more in femslash.

Because I only find penises hot when there's two?

IDK. What people like and don't like isn't always exactly logical, OP. This anon reads/writes pretty much anything that has chemistry, no matter what they've got in their trouser department, but it doesn't really have any bearing on what I like in RL.

I wonder this too. I mean, if I was attracted to guys in a sexy way, I'd be bi. Two guys together is so not sexy for me at all, so I don't get the appeal.

um, you're kinda assuming sex tho. that's not true for all slash.

When I first got involved in fandom, I was in the process of figuring myself out and coming out to family/friends. There wasn't a lot of femmeslash around, but there was plenty of slash. I identified with the writing a bit... It made me feel understood when there weren't many gay people around me IRL. That's changed quite a lot (it was 11 years ago). There are more gay people where I live now and there's more femmeslash in my fandoms. But the slash is what got me through a difficult time and it's what I'm into now because of that.

This was pretty much my experience. I knew I wasn't straight, but I didn't really know what I was, or even how to describe what I was feeling. Reading stories about two men being able to love one another in a way that most media showed heterosexual couples was the thing that made me realise I wasn't weird, I just wanted that</> with a woman. It holds a special place in my heart as a result.

That's exactly how I feel. :D

I'm just not interested in femmslash, not even a little. Odd, I know, but it doesn't even turn me on, which you would think it would since I'm a lesbian and all. Maybe I just like writing about penises?

For the same reason people find some kinks appealing in fic but not IRL. You can find something arousing without necessarily being interested in experiencing it yourself. For instance, sorry for the slight TMI but, I find S&M really hot in fiction (even in RPing), but it's definitely not something I'd like to experience IRL, be it as a dom or as a sub. I doubt anyone who is into tentacle porn would like to have it happen to them, either.

I don't really see why fiction, especially romance and smut, should necessarily have to do with what you already have IRL. That's boring. Something that you don't experience in life is much more interesting -- that's why there's a shitload of accountants but not so many novels describing the thrilling turmoils of accounting...

Because we're gay, so we know better than anyone that love is love? I'm a lesbian, and I happen to often like male characters - and sometimes that means male characters who are shippable with other male characters. I write them having sex because it's part of how I handle relationships, and I want them to have a fun dynamic.

On the days where I feel too gay to write guy on guy porn, I genderswitch one or both of them and write them as females.

The possibility of identifying as lesbian because your experience and preference is for women but a couple guys hit a narrow margin of interest?

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