~~ wanking informatics 101 (heh)

So I kind of randomly stumbled upon a Q&A page about boys masturbating together (all informative-like), and this reminded me of my continuous problem with the sort of uninformed way sexuality issues get treated in slash-fic. I mean, even the ones that aren't about "coming out" in any way, shape or form (certainly most of mine have nothing to do with it), aren't really realistic as far as sexual behavior of teenage males goes.

The reason I bring this up isn't because I'm feeling self-righteous or anything, but because I find "normal" teenage boy behavior to be kind of... well... sexy in its obliviousness. I mean, they wank alone and they think it's okay to wank together and to me, that's just beautiful. Because it really seems (speaking as someone who's made a small hobby of reading autobiographical sexual-history stories) that a rather large number of self-identified "heterosexual" boys ages 12-19 experiment an awful lot with each other. I don't base this on any one website or book-- I've just come across personal stories of this nature over and over and over again.

And oh, there's even a diagram involved :>

( Clearly I'm way too interested in this, but I still think it's useful to keep actual teenage boy psychology in mind... )