Poll, because I am curious.

[jmtorres]

Nominally straight people I know keep freaking out when I write or request het. Which I find baffling, as a mostly-lesbian who writes and reads about boys and girls fucking themselves and each other all the time. Therefore, I present: a poll.

You should only answer ONE of the questions--the one with the most accurate description of your sexuality. The other ones, you leave alone. Except the last one, which is for everyone. Capisce?

ETA: Esoteric option means your readings *exclude* standard het, mslash and femslash. If you read weird stuff *as well as* the standards, go one up.

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I have too much free time.

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[sorion.livejournal.com]

I have too much free time.

Obviously ;-P

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

It was mostly copy/paste.

[sorion.livejournal.com]

Lazy, lazy...

[stariceling.livejournal.com]

Do we get cheese now? *hopeful*

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

I feel I should clarify; I'm going to change my answer to "all genres" even though I mostly read mslash and femslash due to the people whose writing I read. I adore genderfuck, though I haven't found any really good stuff for my favorite het pairings, so I read most of my het that way. And gen? There isn't enough of it in the world. Mmm.

Off to change answer and pimp this poll in my journal, because, damn, now I'm curious. :)

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Cheddar, American, Swiss, or Pepperjack?

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

even though I mostly read mslash and femslash due to the people whose writing I read.

*nodding* Femslash doesn't pop up a lot on my standard reading list, but I read it with as much interest as I read anything else.

[inarticulate.livejournal.com]

I didn't start seeing a lot of good femslash until gay women started writing it more often and, well, ditto the genderfuck. ...I love my cracky anime fandoms. <3

[green-fae.livejournal.com]

That's wierd that your friends would wig on you reading het. Real life is real life and
fantasy is fantasy, people against pr0n don't seem to get that distinction.
Although there is overlap, a lot of people of various sexual preferences
will read/see/watch/think of things they would not do in real life.

As for femmeslash, I'm not against it, but have very rarely read femmeslash that did anything for me. I'm not sure if its the pairings, or the writers.
(Sam/Janet doesn't do it for me, no matter who writes it, and I've seen good pairings
ruined by bad writing. Odd since a lot of women write slash, either they have different preferences than I do,
or a greater understanding of men's equipment than their own)
Recs on decent hot femmeslash in any fandom are welcome. who knows,
you might convert me. :)
(well, come close to converting me. I love my gay boys and always have)

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

A lot of it is the fandom. WK is not a very het-friendly fandom.

Plus, there's the long-standing argument of whether the thing I'm writing is sicker for being het or for being incest ;-)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

I'm very 'ew... het' when it comes to reading. Which I suppose is weird, because around 20% of the stuff I write is het. I don't read femmeslash much either, and around 10% of my writing is f/f.

I'm full of contradictions.

And I just remembered... I read both straight and gay romance novels.

And I love hentai. The stuff with tentacles and schoolgirls.

And despite being mostly straight, I really like looking at boobies. And thinking about playing with them.

Okay, I probably filled out that thing completely wrong.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Heh. *pats* Don't worry about it.

*saves total rage for the person who clicked esoteric on every single question*

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

If I seek out a new writer, it's for slash. But I'll read anything if it's by a good writer.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I think most good writers don't stick to just one thing--they challenge themselves to try doing new thigns.

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

Dude, I wasn't one of the ones who 'freaked out', was I? I was mostly just intending to be silly, since in my RL people are all 'ewwww slash', so it's nice to be able to kinda mix it up in the fen and go over-the-top with 'ewwww het!' It does make sense to me though, that female straights who like to read boy-on-boy slash would squick a bit on het or femme slash 'cause they're supposed to be only into boys, so anything that makes them think sexually about other women isn't supposed to be appealing. I actually do enjoy well-written het fic; I just prefer the boyslash for all the usual assorted sociological reasons.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

It's entirely possibly I may have taken you more seriously than you meant on account of having *other* people hetfreak on me.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Though I haven't written het in months. XD

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

*pets* Well, you know, the first smut I ever wrote was F/partially-corporeal alien. I haven't done that in a while...

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

Heheh, 'hetfreak'. Excellent word. You should should send that in to the urban word dictionary.

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

Chevre.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Done! Hehe.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Really, Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish.

[stariceling.livejournal.com]

American! Please? *blinky*

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Hehe. *hugs*

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

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