That's why fan fiction is all about exploring the emotions and character of the hero. In romance novels, the heroine learns about the secret inner life of the hero. That's especially true in slash: that's doubling up. There are two men -- two masculine, strong alpha males who reveal their tender side. The emotional process of revealing true character is what's so appealing to women.
Why would straight men want to watch lesbians, and why would women write stories about gay men?
[Straight] guys are turned on by lesbians because it's a doubling of visual cues. And one psychological cue for arousal in men is female sexual pleasure. Seeing lesbians kissing doubles that too.
For women in slash fiction, it's the psychological cues of a man's character, stature, passion and emotional communication -- slash doubles those.
What's up with men's interest in mothers?
It's not so much that they're moms, but that they're older women. They are usually portrayed as aggressive and seductive. They are not timid. They're quite confident and bold. Men who like that, like the idea of an innocent younger man being seduced or taught by an older woman.
Did you find evidence that porn is addictive?
We looked at individual search histories for half a million people using an AOL data set [which does not identify the users]. It seems to be less than 2% of people,among the people who search for porn, who have a significantly elevated number of searches.
And there's a [shared] characteristic among these searchers: they search for a really wide variety of porn, which is atypical. Usually, people search for the same things over and over. But these people who search for notably more porn tend to search for [many different things].
Two things tend to show up in these searches, oddly: bestiality and granny porn. There's clearly something different about that group. Having said that, there isn't overwhelming evidence that porn addiction exists. Probably the best way to define whether it's a problem is if you want to stop and you can't.
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