You're doing it all wrong!
Sep. 27th, 2004 10:31 pmFrom http://www.livejournal.com/users/stewardess_lotr/72903.html (italics my emphasis):
LETTERS
Sunday, September 26, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
SOAP OPERAS OFFER STRAIGHT WOMEN A BETTER SHOW THAN SHOWTIME'S 'QUEER AS FOLK'
Editor -- While Neva Chonin's comments in "Live! Rude! Girl" (Sept. 12) on the television series "Queer as Folk" were wickedly funny, I must take issue -- affectionately, of course -- with a point or two on women and gay sex. Even as a staunch supporter of parity between the sexes, I find it patently absurd to put straight women's interest in gay sex on a par with the obsession of straight men for girl-on-girl "action." Clearly the majority of women are not seriously aroused by scenes of sex between men. Female sexuality just doesn't work that way. Additionally, Chonin's high praise for the comeliness of the "QaF" cast has me wondering whether we're watching the same program. Judged by the pumped-up "looks-ist" standards of Hollywood, these guys are disappointing at best. In fact, it is the soap opera that fits the straight female libido. The soaps present an almost embarrassing abundance of male pulchritude, and they dish it up in the context of an indulgent kind of storytelling, swollen with intimate character development and "hetero-erotic" plotlines. How can "QaF" compete?
Paul Alley, San Francisco
Yep, you heard it here! Stop it now, ladies, we're doing it all wrong! ;)
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm straight and find m/m action pretty damn arousing. I guess that makes me... erm... part of the minority. But we knew that. :)
E.T.A.- this was first pointed out to me over on the Our Stargate forum where, as fully expected, a newbie has now popped up to make comments about us criticising him for making such a sweeping statement. How dare we expect him to speak from knowledge and/or experience when his view is right and we're all icky perverts obsessed with anal sex? ;)
LETTERS
Sunday, September 26, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
SOAP OPERAS OFFER STRAIGHT WOMEN A BETTER SHOW THAN SHOWTIME'S 'QUEER AS FOLK'
Editor -- While Neva Chonin's comments in "Live! Rude! Girl" (Sept. 12) on the television series "Queer as Folk" were wickedly funny, I must take issue -- affectionately, of course -- with a point or two on women and gay sex. Even as a staunch supporter of parity between the sexes, I find it patently absurd to put straight women's interest in gay sex on a par with the obsession of straight men for girl-on-girl "action." Clearly the majority of women are not seriously aroused by scenes of sex between men. Female sexuality just doesn't work that way. Additionally, Chonin's high praise for the comeliness of the "QaF" cast has me wondering whether we're watching the same program. Judged by the pumped-up "looks-ist" standards of Hollywood, these guys are disappointing at best. In fact, it is the soap opera that fits the straight female libido. The soaps present an almost embarrassing abundance of male pulchritude, and they dish it up in the context of an indulgent kind of storytelling, swollen with intimate character development and "hetero-erotic" plotlines. How can "QaF" compete?
Paul Alley, San Francisco
Yep, you heard it here! Stop it now, ladies, we're doing it all wrong! ;)
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm straight and find m/m action pretty damn arousing. I guess that makes me... erm... part of the minority. But we knew that. :)
E.T.A.- this was first pointed out to me over on the Our Stargate forum where, as fully expected, a newbie has now popped up to make comments about us criticising him for making such a sweeping statement. How dare we expect him to speak from knowledge and/or experience when his view is right and we're all icky perverts obsessed with anal sex? ;)
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