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III. Exploration
A. Psychology and addiction – slash in the
first instance
Many fans cannot remember the first slash fic they ever read; but if
one does not know about the existence of slash, and stumbles upon it
accidentally, what kind of emotion must that very first piece of writing evoke?
Undeniably the effect is very visceral and intense. To come upon slash is not
as difficult as it seems, especially as at this moment in time it is impossible to
do a search in google for the name of a specific series or certain books without
a site containing slash/yaoi appearing among the first five links: the Japanese
anime Gundam Wing (USA 2000), the American TV shows Buffy the Vampire
Slayer (1997), and Xena the Warrior Princess or the Harry Potter books
(1998) are only a few examples of this. It has not always been like that. Only a
few years ago, slash and yaoi sites were less frequent in number, and
slash/yaoi was a lesser visible subpart of fandom rather than the
overwhelmingly visible part that it is now.
I cannot recall the first fanfic I ever read, nor how exactly I found my
first yaoi fanfic four years ago. I remember liking a specific anime series very
much (Weiss Kreuz USA 1998), and I remember that the first yaoi fics I ever
read were Weiss Kreuz fics. I suppose that I must have come across these yaoi
fics while researching the series, as I do not recall reading general fanfiction
before I ever read yaoi fic. Soon, I found a link to a page called “AnimeRose’s
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