After many years of enjoying homoeroticia and fiction, I have chosen to dive into and swim in the River Slash. For those unfamiliar, slash is the slang term for homoerotic fan fiction, primarily male/male relations between characters in television or movies. This world is primarily dominated by women writers and readers, although like the world at large, all flavor combinations and choice of toppings exist. You know how straight guys love lesbian action? Well, this is a good example of a female counterpart. At present, my obsession with this centers around the characters from the Lord of the Rings movie. What's a girl to do?

Why do I like this stuff? I'm not quite sure. I can tell that I first read gay male erotica in high school, specifically a pre-AIDS copy of the Joy of Gay Sex that a friend and I were going to give to a jerky kid who was driving me up a wall. Not very sensitive, but then again I was 16 years old. The book was had in Greenwich Village in New York City for $2 out on the sidewalk somewhere. I decided to take a look at it to see just what I was going to insult this kid with, read the whole thing, and it is in my possession to this day. It was one of those things that just blew the top of my head off, and I mean that in a positive way. I have preferred gay men's erotica and porn to this very day. It doesn't conflict with my heterosexuality at all, but it has freaked a variety of male partners to different degrees. At this point, they either take me as a whole package, or they may continue on their way.