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reenkai'm starting to be bothered by this whole "issue" within the fandom itself (and by this i mean people who write/read hp fanfic), with underage sex. it seems hypocritical. i mean, once you get into slash/yaoi, you're going to have to go out of your way to completely avoid underage sex-- you're going to have to stick with those gun-toting drama shows.
so why do people keep bringing it up? "oh hp is all about underage sex and incest" *laughs* yeah. so? so are 80% of the other fandoms. clark isn't of age either, and no one's going on about -that-. and these characters are most often slashed with people exactly of age with them, too. it's not just snape/harry people have a problem with. it's almost like-- there are some things that are "ok" and some things that aren't, but considering we read lucius/draco and fred/george without even burping, i don't see what's so scandalous about them all being 16. it's like we need that last remaining bit of propriety to seem like we're really not perverts, we're just "enlightened in the ways of boy-on-boy lurve, which is natural and beautiful", blah blah. it's like-- are we (slash fans, hp fans, whatever) all so old, now, that we get to speak of people several years younger as "underage" and "icky" in relation to sex? what the hell?
*sigh* doesn't really matter. just kinda silly though.
so why do people keep bringing it up? "oh hp is all about underage sex and incest" *laughs* yeah. so? so are 80% of the other fandoms. clark isn't of age either, and no one's going on about -that-. and these characters are most often slashed with people exactly of age with them, too. it's not just snape/harry people have a problem with. it's almost like-- there are some things that are "ok" and some things that aren't, but considering we read lucius/draco and fred/george without even burping, i don't see what's so scandalous about them all being 16. it's like we need that last remaining bit of propriety to seem like we're really not perverts, we're just "enlightened in the ways of boy-on-boy lurve, which is natural and beautiful", blah blah. it's like-- are we (slash fans, hp fans, whatever) all so old, now, that we get to speak of people several years younger as "underage" and "icky" in relation to sex? what the hell?
*sigh* doesn't really matter. just kinda silly though.
