Compare and contrast.

[randomness]

Thought for the late night, partly inspired by a face-to-face comment by rmd about gay regency romances mostly being written by and read by women, and partly from a post by digitalemur called Fun with YAOI, or things I come across at work:

Is there any similarity in this kind of man-to-man fiction mostly created and read by women to the girl-on-girl photosets mostly being photographed by and viewed by men?

Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi has a useful overview of the yaoi phenomenon.

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

stolen_tea pointed me here... I think in part because I occasionally write bits and pieces of a regency lesbian romance. Never really gotten into slash fic. Didn't know their were gay (male, I assume) regency romances... (Not entirely sure I wanted to, but... information is always good, I guess.)

I'm bi. I like lesbian smut... well, actually, mostly I don't, but I wish there were more lesbian smut that I liked*. The conventions of the regency novel are kind of entertaining (mind you, I've read Georgette Heyer... and Austin, mostly). The capacity for taboo is interesting, but also the capacity for misdirection and characters getting in over their heads without realizing it.

* er... though come to think of it I haven't spent a lot of time looking, either. Okay, lameness, all around.