A great part of slash fanfiction (especially those stories set in the present/future/alternate reality) doesn't deal with the secrecy and percesution aspects of homosexual relationships at all, in my experience, therefore I don't think it is the whole reason for the genre's popularity. You are so very right on the subject of 'real romance' to be found in the anguish-strewn historic settings, though.
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Date: 2009-08-13 08:28 pm (UTC)