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LiveJournal. She posited the question of the definitions of non-con (or nonconsensual)
versus rape, both commonly used in fics’ headers and warning
categories to indicate that the story below would contain elements or
narratives of non-consensual intercourse. The ensuing discussion
demonstrated the lack of a common exact definition: Some fans commented
that “non-con” indicated situations between the two protagonists, in which
one of the protagonists is unsure of his wishes, and is persuaded to have
sexual intercourse, as opposed to being “raped.” Other fans maintained that
they used “non-con” in the same way they use “rape.” Still others discussed
“non-con” in light of the problematic of a psychological wish to read rape-fic
and the cultural connotations the term “rape” carries. According to Kielle’s
Fanfiction Glossary, in regards to non-con, “the jury is still out on the shades
of meaning here -- some say non-con is just another word for rape, while
others see the two terms as subtly different.”
Shocked? Don’t be. Everything is not light and happiness in fandom.
But likewise the Internet is not a den for the depraved. The truth is that there
exist many stories in even more genres, and one will come upon a wide
spectrum of happy or scarring fics while working one’s way through a library
that is spatially, and in terms of portability, so very different from what we are
used to in real life offline. Rapefic and non-con fics can come to mean a
spectrum of things, and the focus of the story cannot be derived from the
categories of warnings. Whether a non-con fic is focused on the act of sexual
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