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SY: Like a self-insertion?
Red: No no no, I’m not active in these universes…meaning
I don’t talk to them and so on…I just imagine that it is real,
that it’s an AU, that you could make one step and you’d be
there.
SY: That’s the satisfaction?
Red: So, of course distraction, too…and I won’t mention
the other satisfactions, you can picture them yourself.
SY: Such as sexual?
Red: …obviously!
SY: Aestheticism of the male body?
Red: oh yes, a lot, of course!
SY: Addiction?
Red: yes!
The pleasure Red derives from slash is complex: as she mentioned throughout,
the visualization of what she reads is very realistic for her; this extends from
the simple attraction of the male body to a deeper sexual level. Moreover, the
possibilities of another world, which she had only guessed at in her stream-ofconsciousness,
have been fully realized: the distraction that she had needed
during that first period that she started to read, she explained, had a lot to do
with needing an escape from the real world, school, and people. She needed
something to associate only with herself, not to connect to other people with,
and slash offered her this mode of escapism. Both external and internal or
visceral factors played a role in this process; in her mind she can build
different worlds that are hers, but at the same time no less human than real
life.
These sentiments of aesthetics, unity and watching a different world
are echoed by Maygra in an online essay she wrote about the “Why and
Wherefore of Slash.” The following is an excerpt illustrating themes of
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