http://www.romancenovel.tv/2009/02/21/jamie-craig/ Musings about romance novels, authors and anything romance Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:12:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.romancenovel.tv/2009/02/21/jamie-craig/comment-page-1/#comment-20813 romance novel blogs Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:00:21 +0000 http://www.romancenovel.tv/wordpress/2009/02/21/jamie-craig/#comment-20813 [...] Jamie Craig: Standard lore is that the first fandom slash was written in the 1970s. It was Kirk/Spock–the slash between the two names gives this subgenre its name. And there was a LOT of it–mainly published in fanzines and exchanged through mail or at conventions. I’m not sure if there was a general female audience for gay erotica (or porn) prior to that, but I bring up Kirk/Spock because I think the answer might be there, somehow. I mean, Kirk was the sex-machine who could get all the chicks, so it’d be easy to write him with a woman. And Spock does not have romantic relationships at all! In fact, he only gets to have sex once every seven years, and that’s more animalistic than meaningful. So why on earth were so many women drawn to this pairing–and why is it STILL a thriving fandom? They’re both emotionally unavailable alpha males, they both take their jobs very seriously, and they both have myriad issues. But, despite the difference in rank, they were equals. Kirk could count on Spock no matter what, and Spock had an equal amount of faith in his captain. They could go on adventures together. They could have really rough sex and push sexual boundaries. They were intellectual equals, though they had different types of intelligence. But it wouldn’t be out of character to be tender with each other, either. [...] [...] Jamie Craig: Standard lore is that the first fandom slash was written in the 1970s. It was Kirk/Spock–the slash between the two names gives this subgenre its name. And there was a LOT of it–mainly published in fanzines and exchanged through mail or at conventions. I’m not sure if there was a general female audience for gay erotica (or porn) prior to that, but I bring up Kirk/Spock because I think the answer might be there, somehow. I mean, Kirk was the sex-machine who could get all the chicks, so it’d be easy to write him with a woman. And Spock does not have romantic relationships at all! In fact, he only gets to have sex once every seven years, and that’s more animalistic than meaningful. So why on earth were so many women drawn to this pairing–and why is it STILL a thriving fandom? They’re both emotionally unavailable alpha males, they both take their jobs very seriously, and they both have myriad issues. But, despite the difference in rank, they were equals. Kirk could count on Spock no matter what, and Spock had an equal amount of faith in his captain. They could go on adventures together. They could have really rough sex and push sexual boundaries. They were intellectual equals, though they had different types of intelligence. But it wouldn’t be out of character to be tender with each other, either. [...]

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