*thoughtful* I've seen fic that focuses on consequences, but I don't believe that has ever been the same fic that focuses on sex. I mean, on sex as a major event and action, as opposed to a weighty plot point. When there are consequences... well, fic-time is used to focus on /those/, on the days and weeks and months of action that comprise them, not on the twenty minutes of awkward action that may have prompted part of them. I especially recall Moon Momma's collection of Sailor Moon fic focusing on Nephrite and Naru (http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/nephandnaru/library.html). Her own work, in particular, dealt a lot with cross-gen and cross-class issues, and romance all over, but very little time on the actual sexual athletics.
When a fic focuses on sex acts themselves, it's usually erotic, and erotic equals idealized for whatever the value of sex is in that story.
Actually, what I've always had more of an issue with in slash writing is the way that Real Gay Issues (tm) tend to get deployed in a shallow and casual way by writers with no experience of them; kind of the way drug abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, and abuse of all kinds are. Shallow angst is more of a story turn-off for me than shallow fluff. *shrugs* Milage will vary.
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Date: 2010-03-22 10:55 pm (UTC)When a fic focuses on sex acts themselves, it's usually erotic, and erotic equals idealized for whatever the value of sex is in that story.
Actually, what I've always had more of an issue with in slash writing is the way that Real Gay Issues (tm) tend to get deployed in a shallow and casual way by writers with no experience of them; kind of the way drug abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, and abuse of all kinds are. Shallow angst is more of a story turn-off for me than shallow fluff. *shrugs* Milage will vary.