The word 'slash'

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, <eression at h...> wrote:

> for slash content (why 'slash' BTW)

It derives from the way of writing pairings (long before they were 
called "ships"), like H/Hr and R/Hr. '/' is pronounced 'slash'. K/S 
(Kirk/Spock) stories started appearingn back in the 1960s. I always 
heard them called "kay-ess" (phonetic spelling) but some part of 
the world must have called them Kay-slash-ess, because soon they were 
called simply "slash". I desperately wish I could remember what year 
it was, what con, probably later half of the 1970s and surely in Los 
Angeles, at which I browsed a table of fanzines in the dealer room, 
which turned out to be ALL slash zines from different fandoms, 
including a Cagney/Lacey one.