*g* Ah, yaoi... When one thinks about how that term came to be, one cannot help but be amused. XD I'm one of those anime fans who was utterly astounded to realize that people considered slash as being so different from yaoi (or more precisely, the modern definition of 'yaoi', which seems to be anything from sweet shonen ai that's more hand holding than anything else to graphic, NC-17 full on yaoi).
"Slash" as a term first came about in the Star Trek fandom in the seventies and was used because of how people wrote the names of the characters involved. Kirk/Spock, stuff like that. I don't think it ever had the anime implications of seme and uke though, which is almost a shame. I miss knowing the seme and the uke in slash fandoms, not so much for caring who does what in sex, but because I like knowing who pursues whom. But that all goes back to what I consider to be in-character or not. ^_^
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Date: 2004-11-16 04:50 pm (UTC)"Slash" as a term first came about in the Star Trek fandom in the seventies and was used because of how people wrote the names of the characters involved. Kirk/Spock, stuff like that. I don't think it ever had the anime implications of seme and uke though, which is almost a shame. I miss knowing the seme and the uke in slash fandoms, not so much for caring who does what in sex, but because I like knowing who pursues whom. But that all goes back to what I consider to be in-character or not. ^_^