Femmeslash (also known as femslash, girlslash, yuri, or shoujo-ai) is a variation on the traditional definition of slash — homosexual/homoerotic/homoromantic fanfiction. Femmeslash is, essentially, putting female characters together in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.

Femmeslash is generally considered to be rarer than male/male slash, but there have been more and more fandoms that are femmeslash-positive, including Harry Potter, ER, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and, the first primarily femmeslash fandom, Xena: Warrior Princess, as well as making headways into the older, more well-known fandoms, such as Star Trek, The X-Files, and comic books.

Femmeslash is a wide and varied genre, ranging from epic romances to hardcore pornography to lighthearted romps to darkest horror. Also varied is its audience — while it may seem that the ideal audience for femmeslash is a purely heterosexual male audience (as most female/female pornography is geared towards the male viewer), femmeslash has a very strong and outspoken female audience. (via Wikipedia)

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Slash fiction is fan fiction, describing gay pairings between media characters, often in explicit detail, and very frequently outside the canon of the source. The name arises from the use of the slash character in phrases such as “Kirk/Spock/Figwit” to describe the stories. (”Kirk/Spock” is widely thought to be the first type of slash fiction, first appearing in the 1970s in Star Trek fanzines.)

Slash fiction was actually the very first type of fan fiction known to have been created for Star Trek, with many show principals recalling letters sent in from mostly females. Slash writers were the first to call themselves “trekkies”, a reference to “groupies” and stand as marked contrast to the modern more male-dominated trekker phenomenon. At least one officially licenced Trek novel was published containing slash elements: the 1985 novel Killing Time by Della van Hise. According to the Web site The Complete Starfleet Library, an early draft of the novel was erroneously published in which the author had included homosexual subtext between Kirk and Spock before an editor requested a revised version (which was subsequently published in place of the original version).

Today slash fiction is written, or at least explored, by a wide variety of people of all backgrounds and orientations. Horror author Poppy Z. Brite’s works, along with others, could be conidered slash fiction by extension, although several of her characters are already gay and there is little need to further pair them off. (via Wikipedia)

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The term was originally coined in 1980 by Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke for his short story, “Cyberpunk,” which was first published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 57, Number 4, November 1983, although it was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of Gibson, Rucker, and others. (via Wikipedia)

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Modern science fiction frequently involves themes of sex, gender and sexuality. This was not always so. During the 1930s and 40s “golden age” of science fiction it was unusual to find males and females mentioned in the same paragraph, let alone having sex.

In spite of this, book covers for pulp science fiction often featured scantily clad women, often with guns or being menaced by aliens. In some ways, little has changed: many science fiction book covers still feature images of sexy women by artists such as Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta, although the images are perhaps somewhat less exploitative than before.

The New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s reflected its times by attempting to break earlier taboos about what could and could not be the subject of science fiction. The men’s magazine Playboy published regular serious science fiction stories throughout this period, by both male and female authors, offering them significantly more scope than some other publications.

Two different themes emerged: one trying to explore the boundaries of what “sex” could mean in a world of altered humanity and reality, and another of exploring the position of women in science fiction and feminist issues in what had been traditionally a form of fiction written primarily by and for men. (via Wikipedia)

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Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a sub-genre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology. The plot of cyberpunk literature often revolves around the conflict between hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorps. It is the result of a self-correction in the science fiction genre, which classically had ignored the importance of information technology.

Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, Japanese anime, and post-modernist prose to describe the nihilistic, underground side of the digital society which started to evolve in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Cyberpunk’s dystopian world has been called the antithesis of the mid-twentieth century’s utopian science fiction visions, as typified by Star Trek. (via Wikipedia)

I always thought the terminology cyberpunk also referred to the common appearance of subculture characters who have modified their appearance in socially potentially unacceptable ways using technology.

The first place I ever saw science fiction erotica was in Blue Blood Magazine. I got a copy at a Baltimore science fiction convention and took off full tilt and haven’t looked back. The magazine introduced me to authors like Shariann Lewitt, Poppy Z. Brite, John Shirley, Nancy A. Collins, and natch Amelia G the editor. Every issue of Blue Blood always had an entertainment section with everything from in-the-know music coverage to the new hipster roleplaying games like Vampire The Masquerade. Now there is a place on the net for my old favorite publication to have just the entertainment section without the naughty bits. Mind you, the Blue Bloods are still ahead of their time in publishing erotica which is edge culture, beautiful and real, but now there is a safe for work site for all their fascinating news articles and photo features. Not to mention the Blue Blood Community boards which I have been trying not to become addicted to. So far I’ve been posting in spurts. Blue Blood was always an inspiration to me and once again inspired me to start this site. I had been wanting to do a site like this as a hobby for a long time, but Blue Blood gave me the get up and go to actually do it.

The earliest known usage of the term “science fiction” is in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson’s A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject), in which he writes: “Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true.”

However this appears to be an isolated usage and the term appears to have been recoined in the 1920s where it appeared in Amazing Stories.

Science fiction is often abbreviated as SF or sci-fi. However, SF is not unambigous (see under Other types, below), and sci-fi is seen by some as having derogatory overtones. A short lived synonym was scientifiction. (via Wikipedia)

Welcome to SexyFandom.com. I decided to work on a web site for adults who enjoy science fiction and other areas of fandom because I truly believe it is not just a medium for children. I write for television, but I don’t watch it much. I live in a house just north of Los Angeles with a yard just big enough for my dog. She is an Old English Sheepdog, but my husband and I keep her shaved because of the warm weather here. I used to go to cons a lot, but I don’t look as good in a fur bikini as I used to. Now I mostly sit at the computer, earning my daily bread and eating it. I have CFIDS, but am fortunate enough to have a job which allows me downtime when I need it. Some of my favorite authors are William Gibson, Phillip Jose Farmer, Amelia G, Cecilia Tan, Thomas S. Roche, Francesca Lia Block, Douglas Adams, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Harlan Ellison. There is no nudity on this site, but links may very well contain naughty bits. Surf at your own risk.