fiction search/rantlet
Nov. 30th, 2005 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ella_mennoSince y’all know I’m crazy already, I’m going to put out there what’s been bugging me lately. Don’t know if this counts as a rant, technically. A rantlet, perhaps?
There has got to be a story - at least one – somewhere, in some fandom, which has two people who:
1. are romantically interested in one another;
2. are not involved with other people (in other words, each person is available);
3. have feelings of sexual desire towards one another;
4. decide, voluntarily, to wait to engage in sexual behavior with one another;
5. and talk about that decision in the course of the story.
Seriously. I can dink around for less than fifteen minutes, I’d bet, and be able to come up with half a dozen stories with bizarre pairings, unusual kinks – I mean, come on, there are entire communities for stuff like that! – but I’ve been actively looking for a story with the above components, and I can’t seem to find any.
Because I feel like, when I was a teenager, I seem to remember being boyfriend/girlfriend (or hearing stories form my friends who were in that kind of relationship) didn’t automatically mean you were doing it. It was a huge deal if you were going to “go all the way” with your boyfriend, a step that you only took when you felt ready (ideally, I guess). I honestly don’t remember anyone going from “hey, let’s be boyfriend/girlfriend” to “we’re doing some mattress dancing” in the same step.
I suppose this makes me hopelessly behind the times, or naïve, or out of touch with reality.
I’m not kidding, though. If anyone knows of a story that sounds anywhere near what I’m talking about, let me know. At this point, I’d read in just about any fandom, just to prove to myself that such fiction exists.
There has got to be a story - at least one – somewhere, in some fandom, which has two people who:
1. are romantically interested in one another;
2. are not involved with other people (in other words, each person is available);
3. have feelings of sexual desire towards one another;
4. decide, voluntarily, to wait to engage in sexual behavior with one another;
5. and talk about that decision in the course of the story.
Seriously. I can dink around for less than fifteen minutes, I’d bet, and be able to come up with half a dozen stories with bizarre pairings, unusual kinks – I mean, come on, there are entire communities for stuff like that! – but I’ve been actively looking for a story with the above components, and I can’t seem to find any.
Because I feel like, when I was a teenager, I seem to remember being boyfriend/girlfriend (or hearing stories form my friends who were in that kind of relationship) didn’t automatically mean you were doing it. It was a huge deal if you were going to “go all the way” with your boyfriend, a step that you only took when you felt ready (ideally, I guess). I honestly don’t remember anyone going from “hey, let’s be boyfriend/girlfriend” to “we’re doing some mattress dancing” in the same step.
I suppose this makes me hopelessly behind the times, or naïve, or out of touch with reality.
I’m not kidding, though. If anyone knows of a story that sounds anywhere near what I’m talking about, let me know. At this point, I’d read in just about any fandom, just to prove to myself that such fiction exists.
