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Date Posted: 21:52:41 03/29/03 Sat
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's message, "Sex TV Slash segment" on 21:01:29 03/29/03 Sat
Constance Penley, Author, Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and SEx in America:
Dialogue is intersperced with shots of Kirk/Spock fan art.
Pornography, from the middle ages on, has been used to challenge all sorts of institution authority and status quo, sexual mores. The slash fans, in trying to rewrite heterosexual masculinity, write a different and better world - a utopia where there would, in fact, be equality of the sexes.
Title: SLASH FICTION
Katharine Gates: Author Deviant Desires.
Dialogue intersperced with fan art, including LOTR (the hobbits)
Slash fiction is fan fiction, fiction written by the fans of a particular TV show or movie series, that is romantic and/or erotic in nature - but specifically it involves two characters of hte same sex, who don't have a relationship on the screen in that way.
Dialogue intersperced with Kirk/Spock fan art.
The first slash fiction that was written was Kirk/Spock slash fiction for Star Trek the Original Series and so that's known as K/S, and the slash between the letters K and S, gave the genre it's name.
Text on screen: Slash fandom is made up of predominantly women who create writing, artwork and video collage.
Constance Penley:
Slash writing can really be with any two men - from Starsky and Hutch to characters from Wise Guy. I think that the best slash writing is done in a science fiction universe. Because you do have this extreme difference between the two men, which is part of what gives it its erotic thrust.
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Barbara: Slash writer and fan:
I saw one episode of a show, and I said to myself, "There's backstory here that needs to be told." And I originally set out to find the story because to me it seemed so obvious that I figured somebody had already written it. But no one had. So I finally talked myself into writing it myself.
Dialogue intersperced with LOTR fan art (Frodo/Sam)
Jane: Slash writer and fan
We're working with stuff that's already been created. We're working with TV shows, with movies, and in most TV shows and movies the characters you are meant to identify with, the character whose motivations drive the plot is going to be, for the most part, a man. And if the sidekick, for example, is physically attractive, and you identify with the hero, the hero is going to find the sidekick physically attractive. And also, in large part, it's what's called the one dollar principle - if I have one dollar, and someone gives me another dollar, that's twice good. So one hot, naked guy is good, two hot naked guys are even better.
Excerpt from "Call me Bother" (Beyond Dreams Press), dialogue intersperced with Kirk/Spock fan art:
Electricity shot through Kirk at the simple gesture. He leaned forward, his other hand going around Spock's head, drawing him closer. Their lips met, tentitively, but the force that hit them both as their mouths touched, drew them together like two oppositely charged particles.
Katharine Gates:
I think it's partically this desire to have two men to play with and sort of pose and move around on your own. I mean, when you write pornography, or you write erotica, you are in total control of the scene. And here they are taking these copyrighted characters and doing very, very naughty things with them. The naughtiness has a supererotic factor to it as well.
Jennifer, slash writer and fan:
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What I like about slash is that it allows you to explore things like desire and identity in a way that is not limited to gender.
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Katharine Gates:
The possibility of having an entirely other body than your own is - I mean, that is the greatest escape from the sort of deadening exigencies of your ordinary life. I mean, here you are, you can be a man. So, then you can have the kind of sexual aggression, appetite, stamina, all these sorts of things that, you know, you might think men have. That gives you permission to do that, and feel that way.
Jane:
Slash is also really difficult to categorize in terms of its sexuality. Essentially it's mostly written by women - so you're talking about images of hot, sweaty, naked men for female delectation, which is very straight - it's "het". But you're talking about two guys getting it on in the story, which means it's "gay", and you're talking about women writing stories so other women will get off on them which is pretty "dyke-y" when you think about it.
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Constance Penley:
I've argued that the fans are really not trying to write a gay relationship, they're really trying to write two straight men, and what their relationship might be to one another. Because I think finally, one of the things they're trying to reform, if you will, is heterosexual masculinity. There's a strong homosexual element in all of our subjectivities and if we know that, and recognise it its going to make us much more tolerant and empathetic people.
Leonard Nimoy:
The first work of that kind that I saw - that I had any connection to was a piece which showed an image of Spock, standing, dressed only from the waist down in a robe, naked down to the waist, chained to a post that looked very much like a phallic symbol. And the title was Spock Enslaved. I'm missing a lot of it, but what I've seen is quite good.
Jennifer:
I think people think we're all really big geeks and nerds. For me, the part that's in the closet - for most part people I think its the fact that it's gay porn - I work in the sex industry, for me, the fact that puts it in the closet is that it's Star Trek or whatever...
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