Thanks for posting the zine lists, Sarah.
Sarah also wrote:
- There is roughly about four times as much gen as erotica-- and the
latter category includes not only slash but heterosexual publications like Horizon's zine =Ultra=, as well as mixed zines that include many gen stories.
This is an interesting statistic. At risk of waking the [[...]], might I ask how is your zine database organised -- would it be easy to analyse trends over time wrt the proportions of gen, slash, het and mixed ?
Tavia
One thing nobody mentioned - the Liberator crew are prepared to play games which include Orac, while the Federation probably would not.
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Tavia asked:
This is an interesting statistic. At risk of waking the [[...]], might I ask how is your zine database organised -- would it be easy to analyse trends over time wrt the proportions of gen, slash, het and mixed ?
There are many problematic areas though--such as slash stories that are not sexually explicit and instances in which the stories themselves rather than the zines are mixed. (Or the Zens are mixed--I'm not sure whether sexual activity with an AI is het or slash.)
-(Y)
"Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Tavia asked:
This is an interesting statistic. At risk of waking the [[...]], might I ask how is your zine database organised -- would it be easy to analyse trends over time wrt the proportions of gen, slash, het and mixed ?
There are many problematic areas though--such as slash stories that are not sexually explicit and instances in which the stories themselves rather than the zines are mixed. (Or the Zens are mixed--I'm not sure whether sexual activity with an AI is het or slash.)
-(Y)
What is the term for a relationship with a sentient non-human? Xenosexual?
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What is the term for a relationship with a sentient non-human? Xenosexual?
I think 'kinky' suffices well enough.
Neil
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