we as a society constantly strip women from the story
Concur. If "it's not about the gender," then why are women so absent? If stories are written with no regard to biological sex, then why are all the stories still about men?
I'm curious about your yoking that thought to your defense of sex in fiction, however. (Unless you mean to create a backhanded point about how particular flavors of slash also make women absent the same way that plot stories can.) If the only way women can get into a story is via her body as a sex object, I say no thank you.
And anyway, I can only assume we read for different reasons, or with totally different protocols. Because I usually find sex stories (het or slash) boring, the moreso the more of them I read in a row. I could tolerate it more, when it was more commonly pairing + action in a single story; but pairing by itself, even pairings I endorse, is thunderingly predictable and dull to me.
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Concur. If "it's not about the gender," then why are women so absent? If stories are written with no regard to biological sex, then why are all the stories still about men?
I'm curious about your yoking that thought to your defense of sex in fiction, however. (Unless you mean to create a backhanded point about how particular flavors of slash also make women absent the same way that plot stories can.) If the only way women can get into a story is via her body as a sex object, I say no thank you.
And anyway, I can only assume we read for different reasons, or with totally different protocols. Because I usually find sex stories (het or slash) boring, the moreso the more of them I read in a row. I could tolerate it more, when it was more commonly pairing + action in a single story; but pairing by itself, even pairings I endorse, is thunderingly predictable and dull to me.