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Not to be confused with Slasher film.
The symbolic slash, used to separate the two names in a romantic pairing, from which slash fiction takes its name.
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Slash fiction (also known as "m/m slash" or slashfic) is a genre of fan fiction that focuses on romantic or sexual relationships between fictional characters of the same sex.[1][2][3] While the term "slash" originally referred only to stories in which male characters are involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary plot element, it is now also used to refer to any fan story containing a romantic pairing between same-sex characters. Many fans distinguish slash with female characters as a separate genre, commonly referred to as femslash (also known as "f/f slash" or "femmeslash").
These fan-written stories are not often accepted canon, and the characters are usually not engaged in such relationships in their respective fictional universes.[4]
^Bacon-Smith, Camille. "Spock Among the Women." New York Times Sunday Book Review, November 16, 1986.
^Bryson, Norman; Michael Ann Holly & Keith P. F. Moxey (1994). "Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Popular Culture". Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 304–305. ISBN 978-0-8195-6267-8.
^Döring, Nicola (2021). "Erotic Fan Fiction". In Lykins, Amy (ed.). Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender (Living ed.). Cham: Springer. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59531-3_65-1. ISBN 978-3-319-59531-3. OCLC 1109843175. S2CID 229183598.
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