No, not at all! I’ve just been over at the new name-your-favorite-slash-pairings thread in Cafe Society, and was thinking that it’s seeing two characters I’m interested in getting together–and how you can make an “impossible” pairing work*–that holds my attention, not the thought of any two random guys together. I mean, if it’s nobody I care about, why should I care if they fuck or not?
I’d rather watch something with a hot homoerotic undercurrent and no overt sex–like “Brideshead Revisited” or “Lawrence of Arabia”–rather than graphic porn with anonymous bodies. (Although, of course, an actual sex scene with nudity ‘n’ all between two people I’m interested in–like Maurice and Alec Scudder in Maurice–is very nice. )
*In the other thread, for example, I mentioned that I wrote DS9 fanfic, mostly Garak/Bashir; what made that pairing endlessly fascinating to me was how the heck do a cynical, galaxy-weary, former assassin and spy and a hopelessly naive young doctor manage to work things out between them? Can they? I must’ve written about 50 stories on that.
Sounding off - not a huge fanfic/shash/yaoi fan but homoerotic anything will get me going.
Male and male is enough to get me off right there. Girl and girl is very moisture-inducing. Hell, male, female, male female or any combination thereof will do it.
Real life OR porn.
As long as there is no boom-chicka-boom-chicka soundtrack. Although sometimes the cheap thing does it too…hmm.
Hi, My name Is Ink a dink a dink and I am a voyeur.
Yes, but *ordinary * erotic writing - like Literotica - the people can be no one I know at all. Homoerotic, however has to be famous people. And I’ve been thinking about it, and I think I know why, at least for me…I’ve had plenty of experience with hetero sex, and have watched enough movies with lesbian sex, but I am VERY naive about homo sex. Really. Never seen a movie, have only rarely seen two guys even kissing IRL. So I suppose I find it much harder to imagine with two guys, since I don’t have much of a frame of reference.
Lawrence of Arabia? Damn! And I almost rented that…think I’ll have to rent it this weekend, then.
Good God, I wonder what the mods think of *this * thread?
That’s pretty funny in that that’s exactly the opposite from how I (a hetero guy) feel about girl on girl action. Anything with any kind of emotional connection is boring in the extreme. Dirty nasty raw sex, however, yum.
Whoever it was said Lawrence of Arabia had lots of male-male sexual tension.
So I said I need to see it.
Then you said something about exploding trains or something.
I just didn’t get it.
T.E. Lawrence organized Arabs to fight the Germans in W.W.I.
There are rumors that he was sodomized in some sort of thing or other.
Anyway, most of his time seemed to be spent in blowing up trains the Germans were using and stuff.
He died at home in heretosexual Britain in a motorcycle accident.
It comes up in French because the term’s not shenen ai, it’s “shounen ai” or “shonen ai” or “yaoi”. Generally, in English-speaking fandoms, shounen ai refers to romance and yaoi to porn.
You can find yaoi for pretty much everything. Ah, the internet.
I wasn’t thinking of the rape scene when I mentioned Lawrence of Arabia, or even of trains blowing up (although I suppose that could be seen as Freudian symbolism for- uh- something…) I was thinking of the flashing, dark eyes of Omar Shariff, and the relationship between his character, Shariff Ali, and Lawrence. Lots of lovely UST there.
I understand that straight guys don’t see this. This is one my favorite movies. It is also one of my father’s favorite movies. I am perfectly aware that he and I are watching two very different movies, even when we watch it together. Anaamika, there is also a British made-for-tv movie called “A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia” made in the early '90’s with Ralph Fiennes and Alexander Siddig (the guy who played Dr. Bashir on DS9). If you do get to see and like Lawrence of Arabia, you might also enjoy that. The sex is all subtext, but much closer to the surface.
Yeah, that was a typo, thanks for the correction. There’s a huge debate over the proper terminology for this genre, and it’s kinda of nebulous since we’re trying to make Japanese words fit English. The Japanese themsleves use “boys love” (in English) as the general term for original male-male love stories and “yaoi” for the more hard-core plotless stories. This Aestheticism article goes into greater detail. If you’re interested in this subject, Aestheticism is a great resource. The site’s not as active as it once was but it does have some interesting archived articles and reviews.
The main character of Gravitation is very childlike. I liked the anime better, where he’s immature but in an amusing way. The anime is more humor, the comic has more sex, and the author’s done doujinshi (non-official comics for the series) with explicit sex. (Lots of explicit sex, with every random pairing you can think of.) So, depends what you’re looking for.
Gomiboy, of course we’re going to tell you you’re normal. Slasher gals tend to think slasher guys are hot.
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