Aug. 1st, 2007

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[livejournal.com profile] seperis wrote about the HP community Daily_Deviant's admin post (you can check the whole thing from Fandom Wank) and about interracial relationships as a kink.

As a heterosexual female that gets the best kicks reading fictional homosexual male porn... I see that kinks are usually handling different social taboos. (though in fandom, people can have kinks like "happy marriage"..) Kinks are based on the fascination towards unknown, the reaction of "Whoa!/different/unknown/a bit scary". So this way, seeing interracial relations as a kink makes the status of interracial relationships as different/unknown even stronger. As an example, let me put two kinks side by side:

Feces kink = obsessive or abundant interest towards normal bodily functions.
Interracial kink = obsessive or abundant interest towards normal interracial relationships.

That interracial doesn't look that squeaky clean and innocent anymore?

On the other hand, slash really is a kink. It's the same kink as the lesbian porn for hetero men, although wrapped more nicely with a cherry on the top. So fangils' slash enthusiasm could be seen as the same kind of fascination towards the different/unknown as like with the interracial kink.

In my opinion, it would be contradicting to have a "right" to feel uncomfortable and see the kind-of-racist fear of the unknown in interracial kink and *not* see slash kink as putting homosexuals on pedestal, differencing them to "unfamiliar them" and away from "familiar us". So, slashers might love gays, but thinking that some group is special means also thinking them as different, thus segregating them from what is considered "normal". Yes, I know that many slasher is bisexual or gay and that slash as a whole is supposed to promote tolerance, but this is my theory.

As having personally a slash kink, which many outside fandom would see as a really bad and disgusting one as the kinks go, I don't think that I, personally, have the right to feel uncorfotable about "mild" e.a. common porn kinks like interracial, bisexual groups, or bondage. I can feel that "I don't know this" or that "this is not my kink", but feeling uncomfortable, or judging that kink? I don't think so.

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