Escapist books aimed at women have more sex than escapist books aimed at men which I think is interesting. Like the typical male fantasy lit is like Punchy McSquarejaw who Fights or Shoots and maybe he has a girlfriend but she’s generally a bit superfluous. And then you have girl wish fulfillment books about falling in love with a vampire or dark fairy. And maybe she is also like an assassin or wizard or has a sword or something, but the war and fighting is secondary to the fantasy of being dicked down by a broody sadboy. And sex is part of this fantasy, often explicitly. But guy books spend more time describing spaceships or shootouts or fistfights than sex scenes, even tho the stereotype is that men’s fantasies are mostly sexual
I bet @autisticandroids will have thoughts on this.
This is a very valid and interesting point. Gonna reblog it to see if anyone following or visiting has some insight and in case I think of something.
Reading fanfiction these past few years I definitely think female sexuality seems to be more thematic, where it pervades the whole thing, including the non-fuck scenes, things like “the dynamic between these two characters and how one invoked the other’s use-value in ways that shifts their self-value”, where male sexuality seems to be more purely sensory, confined to scenes, actions, and descriptions that can be included or omitted to various degrees to serve the fiction product requirements without affecting the arc of the story