musings on writing m/m slash : comments [rivers

For me part of the appeal of reading or writing m/m is that then I don't have to think about all the ways my body doesn't measure up to the standard of female body that has sex. I don't have to worry that my breasts are tiny or my hip bones stick out or my skin isn't perfect or that I don't remove every bit of hair from my body. Even with m/f or f/f fic the female bodies are always better than mine (note how much empasis there is on Vicky-T's boobs in bandom fic for example). So m/m lets me avoid that. Which is probably not the correct answer to give, but it is part of how I feel.

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I agree with this completely. I do love writing and reading both m/f and f/f fic, but with m/m there's an entire source of anxiety I can just completely avoid, rather than have to grapple with directly, and that is NICE. You're definitely not alone in that ♥

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I think especially in a hobby that is meant to be fun, taking away sources of anxiety wherever possible is useful :)

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I definitely don't think that is a wrong answer! I mean, it would be super awesome if none of us had a list of reasons why our bodies are "wrong" or not good enough in some way, but I'm pretty sure we all have one of those lists. And it's not even at all off the topic of my post, as shame about what our bodies look like is all tied up in shame about how we use them to express ourselves, or choose not to use them, or would prefer not to use them but do because we feel like we should...

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