See, see-- that's why it happens in the beginning, see. In the very beginning, you don't skip straight to the arse-fucking, y'know... especially 'cause sex wouldn't be naturally immediately, what with them hating each other-- so it makes more sense to have them maintain that distance of not quite touching, of being tempted/taunted by the other which is what wanking/voyeurism is like-- you -watch- and you -want- but you can't touch-- that's what makes it hot, see. With wanking, it's not merely the act itself that's the kink-- it's the -want- for more that's unsatisfied, that's at the level of fantasy. It's like, when you're obsessed with someone and you think you can't have them, so you wank and wank and wank and wank and wank more, and then say you're either a) mutually obsessed or b) one of you catches the other-- and gets turned on and wanks or just watches.... mmmm.

Anyway, it's that element of the awkward inability to really approach more 'real' interaction that makes wankfic work for me. I've read one where they were in a relationship (once) and it was sorta hot, but not really hot 'cause it's like, kink for the sake of kink which usually leaves me flat. I need that emotional burn of frustration and desperation to really get into it, otherwise it's just someone's fist around their cock, which is like... so what. Y'know?