I think most often when others point to some fan as having started in het (or gen) and then was 'converted' to slash, more likely what happened was that the fan in question simply *discovered* slash, and it was (as it is for many of us) something she (she as in the gender-neutral pronoun for fen, there) had been yearning for for years without having a name to put to it.
I have read "gen" (as per the author's label) TS stories in which they showered together and masturbated each other, as well as "gen" TS stories in which they had anal sex in bizarre "bonding" situations.
I... that is not gen. I'm sorry. The closest you get to that kind of m/m sexual contact without it crossing out of gen-land is... uh, Deliverance. But yeah, there really were some profoundly weird terminology quirks in TS fandom, insofar as I know from my brief lurking round the edges.
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Date: 2005-08-18 11:21 am (UTC)I have read "gen" (as per the author's label) TS stories in which they showered together and masturbated each other, as well as "gen" TS stories in which they had anal sex in bizarre "bonding" situations.
I... that is not gen. I'm sorry. The closest you get to that kind of m/m sexual contact without it crossing out of gen-land is... uh, Deliverance. But yeah, there really were some profoundly weird terminology quirks in TS fandom, insofar as I know from my brief lurking round the edges.