Lucy Neville. “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys.” Chapter 9.

  • The book deals with women's fascination for m/m sexually explicit media (SEM).
  • For this, Neville talks with women in interviews, not just about them.
criticism of the text:
  • SEM is depicted as revolutionary, liberating, and feminist.
  • The fetishisation of gay men is not problematised.
  • Problems of fetishisation etc. are happening within the prevalent patriarchal structures. So how liberating can this consumption of porn really be?
  • The chapter is missing critical reading and discussion of actual texts: there is so much more than just 50 Shades of Grey.

Drarry fanfic

  • popular fanfic trope: they hate each other because they can't admit that they like each other
  • Sex acts as a catalyst for their contradictory feelings.
  • There is always a power imbalance between the two, though the person in power changes.

Porn in fanfiction

  • might be used for character development or character study in contrast to mainstream porn
  • The depiction of violence and its romanticising are especially prevalent in m/m dynamics (see also masculinity & violence in our session on rape culture).




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