Nyar. Didn't mean to embarrass you :B I like your essay! I like reading essays about slash! I like it! And to be brutally honest, the air conditioner is on too high in here, so I'm shivery, and I think it's past my bedtime, so I feel a little dull. BUT I MUST COMMENT. RAR. (TURN IT OFF)

I can't really do seme-Kurama, either. Though...yeah, if I saw Hiei running around wearing nothing but an apron and blushing or participating in any of that uke nonsense...sorry, wrong guy, try again.

Yes, I think Japanese writers do tend to do doujinshi-style in text, too, since a lot of the writing is actually inspired by doujinshi, but it's a little more diluted. Some fics don't do it very much, and some fics have the uke in a frilly maid's uniform, but it does always seem to be there in some way or another. It is very established, but only within the realm of, well, porn. In the real world, it's a fantasy, and while it's repeated often enough to kind of make me wonder, it doesn't actually have very much to do with real life. (I mean, how many men are actually obsessed with girls who are barely legal or JUST TURNED 18 or some bullshit like that? So very few. Thank god. But it still seems to be all over the place in porn.) (Omigod, what was that, some kind of warning label? Oh, I give up.)