Naughty Girls and Gay Male Romance/Porn: Slash Fiction, Boys' Love Manga, and Other Works by Female "Cross-Voyeurs" in the U.S. Academic Discourses

The presented research analyses a phenomenon which is considered ‘curious’ in contemporary American culture: women who write or read about male homosexual relations. Despite the phenomenon’s since the 1970s somewhat common character - popular genres such as Boys Love Manga or Slash Fan Fiction belong to the category - female cross-voyeurs are considered ‘strange’ and ‘unnatural’; much to the contrary of their counterpart, i.e., men who consider female homosexual intercourse as stimulating. From the perspective of Queer Theory, whi ...