Poll: Sexual orientation

[taker]

Me? Taker writes alot of heterosexual fics. I don't write yuri majorly because my ex girlfriends are lesbians. THANK GOD NOT WITH EACH OTHER. That would PROBABLY make me feel worst and probably hurt myself for that. I'm going to expeirment with Shonen Ai and Shonen Au with my DBZ Fiction "Remnants of Earth" since it's going to be an epic fiction (over 80 chapters intended) seeing right now my two male characters (Tull 28, Appla 13 he grows into adulthood throughout the story) are already close and they'll have eventually have a situation. Now normally I'm kind of like "no fuck that faggot shit!" But that's really biggot but then I remembered one thing that as a breeder I should have stappled in my mind, since its true with alot of my 'ships...

NOT ALL HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE SEXUAL.

I have male friends whom I love like brothers. Most of the same male friends, I'll give up organs, take bullets, give blood to so that they'd live. I know I get alot of heat for being prodomently m/f person, however love is a strange thing. There's different levels of love people have for one another. I love my last ex with all my heart still (not because she took my virginity or I'm the only male who has never abused or mistreated her, but really love her for who she is) but I also love several of my best friends.

Okay I went of topic a bit, for which I do appologize. Just trying to defend my actions/words. Now just give a brief example of why you write what you write. Does any of your personal expieriences (Movies and/or intercourse) have any part in your writings? What do you consider your prime example work (URL is nice, but not manditory).

I write heterosexual stories because I'm heterosexual. Sure I like watching lesbians once in a while, but I'm not some Macho Man asshole who's like "I LOVE LESBIANS! FUCK THEM FAGS! I AIN'T WITH THAT GAY SHIT!" Which is easily countered with "You know lesbians are gay right?" I think my BEST writing thus far is

Closer Than Friends

I'm slowly revealing how some of heterosexual friends are as they are, but with several differences, somtimes they're from my friends, sometimes from me. I'm trying to capture for this that there's there's more to love than just lust. I know all the chapters thus far have sex in them, however I'm working on 4 right now and I'll be trying to capture a close loving friendship between Kite and Blackrose.

Please folks, feel free to drop a line and respond accordingly please. I tink I should have this post broken into two different topics. I might do that later.

P.S.: Recently a male friend whom I love has come out (not attracted to me ) and I've been getting the proper exposure to the homosexual community that I'll need later. I've also picked up on mannerisms (SEVERAL OF WHICH I ADDOPTED! >_<) and terminology. Now if I can only get some breeder jokes!

[Guest ChibiShiva]

I write mostly yaoi/shounen-ai, a bit of yuri, a bit of het. I have a harder time getting into het romance fics because they all seem the same to me... VERY hard time, bad experiences in the past and I have a hard time letting go of it.

Most of my writing is... social I'd say. I don't know how to explain it, maybe it's just my relieving of the things I'm tired in this society flavored with my own imagination.I'm tired of stereotypes, I've had my share of those.

Even though my main characters are usually male, and where females are "more or less" important for the main story, if people look carefuly about my background characters, I try to break with stereotypes there.

In Take Me Away, which is set in a medieval setting, I have female knights, male knights, females mages, male mages, that kind of stuff. My ruler happens to be female because she lost her husband - but the other ruler is male. I try to balance between. Because of what? Because I'm tired of females being shown as weaker and men as stronger, like they do in some RPGs.

It's about the same with homosexuality, which is a recurring theme in my fics, given that I write yaoi. And this is where my location gets in. I come from a small community of islanders (Magdalen Islands, in Canada) where religion is still important and homosexuality is somewhat outcasted. For years I was a complete reject because I was considered lesbian, while I'm heterosexual (my best friend was a girl and we were very, very close, plus I was a tomboy while she was a girly girl). It got on my nerves, made me wonder why the hell gays and lesbians were so downgraded, what was SO abnormal with them.

And I came to the conclusion to it was that nothing is abnormal with homosexuality. It appears as different, mostly because of the world we live in and where most people are heterosexual. But at the same time, if love goes further than sex for heteros, why can't it be the same for gays? It's not just about sex. It plays a part, but I believe it can always go deeper. Of course in some of my characters it doesn't go very deeper than sex, but for some straight people it doesn't go as deeper than sex anyways.

I could do the same for het fics, but I'm personally tired of those romances. If at the same time I see homosexuality as another normality, I see it different than heterosexual romances, maybe because of the exposure the latter gets. Most movies, video games, TV shows, whatever is usually axed on heterosexuality. I can't ignore the fact that there are more heterosexual people, but at the same time, it gets on my nerves.

However, for a long time, I wondered if I was normal myself for liking gay romance fiction, seeing that my environment still thinks video games are for kids and the population is somewhat homophobe. It took me a computer with internet access to realize I wasn't the only one who liked yaoi and shounen-ai. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that if guys liked to see two girls going at it, why couldn't women enjoy two guys doing at it? I'm one of those that find it hot, and I won't deny that it plays on my writing.

[WotanAnubis]

I mostly write yuri. However, I do not really write shonen-ai, which shares the yuri vote for some reason. Shoujo-ai, yeah, sure, but not shonen.

[Guest Agaib]

Whatever the hell tickles my fancy at the time.

*celebrates first post in a long time*

My computer crashing, mixed with the incredible slowness of the site has made me reluctant to post. But I guess it's running fast enough now.

[Guest Nympho]

Love reading sex fics, can't write 'em worth a damn except for the occasional ABH fic. Almost all of my stories rely solely on my odd blend of sarcasm and insanity.

[Guest TricksterKitsune]

taker: I fixed the poll for you.

I write mostly shounen-ai and am slowly working my way into yaoi. I just can't write any good hetero stories. I tend to dislike many female characters too...

But my stories tend to deal with things that, as one reviewer put it, would "confuse the hell out of an ethics student".

[quamp]

I do mostly hetero stories, mainly because I'm not gay. I've tried writing Yuri and Yaoi. The Yuri was not great but not bad, and the Yaoi sucked big time. Being from a conservative area, I think I might have been indoctrinated too much about being straight.

[Guest Rani]

All my sex fics are hetero. Probably because first and foremost, I'm straight as an arrow. Then there's the Author's Axaem(sp?) "I write what I know". I've never been in a gay relationship, hell I've never fantasized about it! So, in essense I can't write gay sex/relationship/whathaveyou stories to save my life .

And in my hetero fics, I will only write oral, penetration or both. With a little HJ/fingering thrown into the mix. No anal, or *shudders* rimming. Sorry, anal is just, I dunno, whenever I even think about the idea of getting taken up my ass, it makes me squeamish. Sorry. that's just the way I am. C'mon, if I want to give my future man oral, I don't want his member near my ass. I'm scared of germs and getting sick. Yeah, TMI I know, but I'm just sayin'. As for rimming, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO TOUCH THAT ONE!

Aaaaaanyhoo, yeah, that's pretty much it. That I'm more familiar with the turn-on areas when it comes to hetero sex.

[Crazed Flow]

I am a straight guy, and I write hetero fics. But, I have written one shounen-ai fic. Not a great one, unfortunately. You know what, I want to write more shounen-ai. I don't know if I could do Yaoi, but after a few shounen-ai fics, you never know. But, I will always mainly do hetero fics.

I kind of like shounen-ai. Sometimes, in some anime or games, I can't stand certain female characters that always get paired up with males that I actually like (mainly the bitchy ones). I end up imagining the male character with another male that I like, instead. Yes, I am straight, but women kind of frustrate me sometimes, and that's when I'd rather see two guys in love with each other without a woman in the way.

Two guys fighting over one woman? No, no, forget the woman. The two guys should just go for each other instead.

As you can see, I am in no way homophobic. I like to read some shounen-ai once in a while to break me out of the norm.

[redsliver]

I write heterosexual fics and I try to avoid angst or sappiness whenever possible. Its not always possible because I try and write cracked pairings as often as I write canon ones.

[Nanaea]

I write whatever I'm in the mood for. Like Rani, I tend to write what I know, which, being a straight chick, means I mostly write het. I've done only a little bit of slash because I really, really, really enjoy reading it but I'm not too confident with writing it yet. I can also see myself branching out in the future to write some femslash because I really enjoy that too.

[Guest Big Samurai]

Disclaimer: I am a bisexual male with a strong (90%) preference for females. I have nothing against any other orientation. This planet exists for all of us. Thank you.

I am the Big Samurai, but you may call me Captain Vanilla. I write very ordinary (for the most part) het pieces that focus on putting the female in positions of control and authority. This is not to be confused with BDSM; I just like to have the females calling the shots when it comes to sex, since many, if not most, het 'fics do the standard porn thing and put the males in charge.

(Hey, I grew up being taught to respect women above all others, so I have no problem giving them their due in my work, both X-rated and not.)

I did try to write a yuri piece a while back, but, well, you can very easily tell that I was out of my element when I put it together, so I think that I will stick to what I know and just keep it rolling.

[JewelMaiden]

Majorly Yaoi/Shonen Ai

[Guest atsuita_no_renkinjutsushi]

Majorly Yaoi/Shounen-Ai. I have het as background content but m/m is my focus.

What I find odd is this: I'm female, and the only sexual experience I've had thus far was with another female. *shrug* You never can tell.

[Guest Jackie_Boi]

I usually write slash, usually with famous celebs because I love to believe that someday Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger can be together sexually . But, I do think about writing yuri, but I don't think I'd do a good job, so I'm not confident enough to show anyone. But then again, I usually don't like my own slash fics as much as other peoples so...maybe I will try it one day.

[Guest Helluin]

RL: bisexual in theory, lesbian as far as longterm, meaningful relationships are concerned.

Strangely, so far, i have only written het on AFF. I think i avoid writing yuri partly because I'd have to draw on personal intimate moments, and those belong between me and someone I love.

For me the important thing even in lemons and "casual fling" stories is that the characters must be having fun and care about the other character having fun. So I throw in light bondage or other play, but I usually shy away from N/C (there will be one exception in the next story I'm writing, but it's for plot purposes). Also no anal, which probably explains why I don't read or write yaoi.

I like give-and-take lemons where one person's steering for a while, then the other person steers. So it's usual for me to write multi-chapter PWPs.

[taker]

Hellium: Yeah I can relate. I have to sometimes draw from my own experienes to write. It makes me feel very uncofrtable. I'm not into anal but I do watch a hellova lot of porn prior to 2004 since I've to more or less extent gave up on finding a mate. I doubt she's out there. Crap, aesamistic again! >_< Anywho, that's also as to why I don't write yaoi (not intention of being gay) or yuri (WAY to much history with lesbians to myself) nor do I write orgies. Give and take is always good to read/watch, it shows there's no real dominance in the relationship.

[Guest Acita]

I have only written gay, I think. I just am strangely obsessed. I could probably write a descent lesbian sex scene given that I've had those encounters, but I just can't get inspired. I guess it's because women are not natureally endowed to pleasure one another like men are that makes me itchy to write lesbian fics.

I also prefer writing about relationships rather than sex, period. I think that there's got to be a reason why these two characters are actually hooking up before they get dirty, I suppose. I just fill in the blanks.

[StoryJunkie]

I put down "Whatever the Hell I want" because I'm just that way. However, that doesn't mean good taste has gone out the window.

I obsess mostly with m/f, heavily on the m/dom side, but I've written things with f/f, m/m, m/boy (because it happens), but not necessarily because I get off on it.

I teased Falcon once with a nasty peice where an old man got it on with a young guy (I knew it would twist her mind) while flying on a horny dragon who also became "aroused" I laughed my head off at her reaction. (so, was that m/m/m?)

I really think that the world is a varied and wondrous place where all kinds of things happen. I don't have to promote it, but I don't turn a blind eye, either.

And I don't write for myself. I discovered that here. And yeah, same as Agaib, I'm glad the site has speeded up (whew! what a wait.) But I'm disappointed as to where the heck "Original" went to. I hate it, in fact. (I would swear now, but I like this site too much)

[Guest ChibiShiva]

My first attempt at yuri hasn't been posted on many places, actually... but it sucked. I guess it'd depend of the pairing as well. If I usually pair up random male characters together just for the heck of it, I have a hard time doing this for females. In some fandoms, I'll actually prefer yuri, like Card Captor Sakura or Final Fantasy 6.

Well that's for the pairings. Because I forgot about other topics I brought, or I'm going to bring in other stories.

Since everything I write is fiction, I feel like I can go pretty far. Nothing of this ever happened, and shouldn't happen unless I make it myself (depending of the story, if only I had some 3D animation programs... heheh). I did rape/non-con, shota-con, "beastiality" (tentacle sex, adding some more in the chapter of Take me Away I'm writing to), incest (although this one was M/F, for once a het pairing I'm happy with), bondage...

I'll add a lot of fetishes in my next original fic (infantilism, sado-masochism, more bondage, possible necrophilia, weird insertions). Makes me want to start rght now, in fact.

[Guest ChibiShiva]

ChibiShiva: My attempt at Yuri os at the point, I've delted it off my computer and delted out of my mind. infantilism? Please don't tell me that's what I think it is. That's fucking gross and wrong on so many levels if it is what I think it is. I'm sorry if that's offensive. I'm a hard man to know and live with sometimes.

*laughs* No offence taken. It's not everyone's thing, just like yaoi, yuri or het isn't. I like to try out stuff, explore everything possible, even if it grosses other people out usually. And as I was saying, as long as it remains fiction, everything's possible. (If I don't like something, I simply won't read it ^_~).

I must be pretty hard to live with too sometimes, so don't worry XD.

[Guest Helluin]

No worries. It wasn't your comment anyway, it was taker's "find me a gay couple who's been togher for 20 or more years. You cannot" which I had trouble letting go without an answer. However, that's not the point of this thread, and I apologize for getting sidetracked.

As for fingers vs. penises... that's another case of individual preference, I suppose. I have had heterosexual sex. It's... okay. Sometimes. Assuming the guy can last. But so far, the women I have known are much more creative, stimulating, enduring, and physically satisfying, hands down. You're right, though, hands are not substitutes for male genitalia, any more than male genitalia are substitutes for hands. They're different. Probably it depends on where one's own body is most sensitive, which one feels more intense.

I find myself reticent to write things which are too directly autobiographical. Nevertheless, my het lemons seem to have the man doing a heck of a lot which has nothing to do with his own equipment, and the physical intercourse is usually a very small portion of the smut.

[Guest DarkVampWriter]

For some odd reason I can never write F/F or M/M it's very challenging and when I did write a fic like that I couldn't even get through half the page of the first chapter! I don't know I just think it's too hard. But since I love being challenged maybe one day I will get to write a same sex pairing fic

[Guest Zimarah]

Mostly yaoi/shounen ai, but I do have some het planned. Once I figure out where I should put it on this site...

[taker]

"And in this corner, backing off and cowering away, we have Taker. And in the opposite corner, weighing in sopping wet at a spunky 90 pounds, Helliun"

"The crowd is on its feet as both fighters come out swinging with all they've got. Taker is coming at her with a feinting jab to the left, while Helliun has decided, obviously, to pull out all the stops. She's swinging with all she's got, man she's got a lot of passion!"

"Taker's going into defense mode, his gloves are up, folks! What else can you do? Anyone caught in a similar situation would be doing the same thing. That Helliun sure has a lot of hell in her!"

(Random scenario from a mind twisted by too many similies)

I'm sorry, this is too much fun not to say...

"KISS MY ASS!" :-D

With all do respect. Sides, I REGRET NOTHING! I stand ideally by my words in real life and have yet to both apollogize and look both ways before I cross a street. I'll be damned if look both ways, and I'm damned if I don't! :-D I love when people blow things out or porportion.

DarkVampWriter: Don't blame you. That's why I have the real deal write it for me. Much link the link in my sig suggestions. I could write Yaoi, I'm a decent actor (so my friends say) and I stumble my way through hetro acts, so appereantly I can botch good enough for yaoi with a real life yaoi boy. I think if I should choose to do yuri, I'll call my girlfriend, she's a lesbian. I know what you're thinking "If she's gay, she's most likely not your girlfriend." We have this odd relationshiop between, we're both friends and lovers yet we're not togher officially, she dates other girls. I just strike out! I'm 0-4 so far! YES! HORRAH FOR ME!

Zimarah: Wh'ats the problem you're having?