and… seriously? There are girls that go around reading and writing male homo-erotic stories? Here I was thinking only guys did that (or the analogous) sort of thing to a significant degree. How narrow minded of me.
Text-based erotic stories in general are mostly the province of girls. Yaoi stories are a subset of that, still largely by and for women. (Of course there’s also manga and whatnot; I have less explanation for that.)
The link Khafra gave me the impression that Yaoi was often graphical too (compared to anime or manga). Does the same trend apply to those works? (Or, perhaps, are the wikipedia authors just biassed towards graphical media?)
Not going to happen. I can be confident in this because the very nature of “kino escalation” is that it involves implied consent and implicit or explicit participation by the other party. Without this it is called ‘molestation’ or ‘sexual assault’. I don’t especially mind people writing fiction about me being sexually assaulted. For that matter I don’t particularly care if people write fiction in which wedrifid is participating in homo-erotic kino escalation. I just don’t identify the latter fictional character as ‘me’.
But the former (the one being sexually assaulted) you do? and still don’t mind it? Interesting …
I should be clear that I consider it a fictional me, as distinct from a fictional some other guy. I can certainly understand why some people will be hurt or even traumatised by such things. I just don’t see any reason why I must be. I could instead just be flattered that some girl is including me in her erotic fantasies. So it is a crazy girl and homo-erotic fantasies but there is still no harm that is done to me.
Everything that we choose to be care deeply about gives another vulnerability that can be exploited. Choosing to care about fiction that other people write about you seems silly to me—it is completely and utterly out of your control and is essentially a property of them and not you. Not having that vulnerability means that you are immune to torture simulators without even relying on any acausal decision theory.
I should be clear that I consider it a fictional me, as distinct from a fictional some other guy.
OK, I undestand (I think). As long as the fictional person has the same character as you, then you can identify yourself with them, but if they have a different character (as they must have to engage in homo-erotic kino escalation) then you don’t identify yourself with them. But either way, you don’t mind that people write stories about them, since they’re fictional.
Unfortunately for you, this sounds like the sort of fiction where Yowie Potter would make certain such things happened.
and… seriously? There are girls that go around reading and writing male homo-erotic stories? Here I was thinking only guys did that (or the analogous) sort of thing to a significant degree. How narrow minded of me.
Text-based erotic stories in general are mostly the province of girls. Yaoi stories are a subset of that, still largely by and for women. (Of course there’s also manga and whatnot; I have less explanation for that.)
The link Khafra gave me the impression that Yaoi was often graphical too (compared to anime or manga). Does the same trend apply to those works? (Or, perhaps, are the wikipedia authors just biassed towards graphical media?)
The word “yaoi” is extracted from Japanese; I don’t find it surprising that it would retain a connection to the Japanese story form.
Yes they do.
Not going to happen. I can be confident in this because the very nature of “kino escalation” is that it involves implied consent and implicit or explicit participation by the other party. Without this it is called ‘molestation’ or ‘sexual assault’. I don’t especially mind people writing fiction about me being sexually assaulted. For that matter I don’t particularly care if people write fiction in which wedrifid is participating in homo-erotic kino escalation. I just don’t identify the latter fictional character as ‘me’.
But the former (the one being sexually assaulted) you do? and still don’t mind it? Interesting …
I should be clear that I consider it a fictional me, as distinct from a fictional some other guy. I can certainly understand why some people will be hurt or even traumatised by such things. I just don’t see any reason why I must be. I could instead just be flattered that some girl is including me in her erotic fantasies. So it is a crazy girl and homo-erotic fantasies but there is still no harm that is done to me.
Everything that we choose to be care deeply about gives another vulnerability that can be exploited. Choosing to care about fiction that other people write about you seems silly to me—it is completely and utterly out of your control and is essentially a property of them and not you. Not having that vulnerability means that you are immune to torture simulators without even relying on any acausal decision theory.
OK, I undestand (I think). As long as the fictional person has the same character as you, then you can identify yourself with them, but if they have a different character (as they must have to engage in homo-erotic kino escalation) then you don’t identify yourself with them. But either way, you don’t mind that people write stories about them, since they’re fictional.
Got it!