[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fanfics with slash & sex...I don't get it

[heiditandy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Haggridd <jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com> 
> A slash mb or slash section in FA or some other site would allow 
> readers to know precisely what they are getting into-- so to speak-- 
> and any complaints thereafter would have little validity. 


People do complain, though. People complain in reviews - more on ffn
than on FA, from what I've seen in the past 18 months. For example, if
you see a fic which is labled <<Harry/Draco Slash!>> then it seems
disingenuous to complain in the review that the fic features two boys
kissing - or thinking about kissing - each other. 

But on the same note, why should a fic like Lori's Paradigm of
Uncertainty, which contains a few gay characters, be obligated to
plaster warnings all over the story saying things like <<Gay Characters
Who Are Never Shown Actually Having Intimate Relations Contained
Herein>> without also saying that the fic contains <<Heterosexual
Characters Who Are In Their Late 20's-Early 30's Who Are Actually Shown
Having Intimate Relations Contained Herein>>? Why should she be held to
a different standard than, say, Pay Conroy, whose Prince of Tides
features a prominent character who self-identifies as a lesbian?

Look, if we required warnings for books, so the reader didn't have to
risk seeing anything upsetting, would we have this for Goblet of Fire?



Deaths of one character in the same chapter in which he first appears,
death of an underage character at unexpected moment, described murder of
adult character by his son, many het pairings at dance and other school
activities, at least three het adult pairings, one pairing involving a
gender-unspecific character dancing with a character who has only one
leg and an eye that can see through clothing (both injuries occurred in
backstory), one naked underage character in bathtub being watched by
underage ghost, one adult character steps naked from a large cauldron
and is robed by another male character, one character engages in
self-mutilation in manner which might be similar to cutting, multiple
transformations of characters into animals, including one noncon
transformation which includes underage character being bounced from
floor to ceiling, one scene takes place in graveyard, underage character
is tied to tombstone and subjected to bloodletting, underage character
and other character battle with wands, a spider is killed, four
characters are made unconscious and tied to a rock under a lake, one
character makes possibly sexually harrassing joke about "Uranus", one
het hug and various het kisses, verbal and physical assaults via mail on
female character, imprisonment of antagonist character in beetle form,
hero and friends cause three underage characters to become unconscious,
much consumption of sweets and nonalcoholic drinks, some alcoholic
beverages mentioned and consumed (off page) by horses, consumption of
slightly alcoholic beverages by nonhuman character to the point of
drunkenness, noncon levitation of minor characters (including forcible
showing of one such character's undergarments), assault via food on
underage character, enslavement of dozens, if not hundreds, of minor
characters...



Heidi, who notes that FA will never have a specific section for slash,
because it would likely violate a few antidiscrimination statutes,
whereas requiring appropriate ratings and warnings, where necessary, for
all fics would not