To Anna (comment #22)

Answer from William Maltese

You know, Anna, I’ve been surprised by just how many women read and write m/m, these days.

Back when I first started writing m/m and m/f erotica, they were only two distinct readership groups recognized — gays and straights. There was the anomaly of f/f which was assumed aimed not at lesbians, strangely enough, but at straight men. Although, I have been told by lesbians that those early f/f books were obviously written by men for men, and had absolutely nothing to do with “real” lesbian relationships. Today, there is an entirely separate and large lesbian readership group with books written by lesbians and aimed toward that particular audience.

Quite aside from the fact that, especially since I’ve written from just about every gender’s and every sexual orientation’s perspective, I agree that just because someone doesn’t personally advocate a certain type of writing (or life-style) that doesn’t give them the right to keep others from participating. Surprisingly, though, there are still a lot of people who don’t hold to that way of thinking.

You might find it an interesting aside (although maybe not), that a lot of women who figure themselves not “into” m/m sex are still taking the plunge, at least as far as reading one or two of the genre, if only because so many men for so long have found f/f sex fascinating (and nonthreatening); today’s woman figuring turnabout is fair play.

Personally, I’m up (no sexual innuendo to be inferred) to trying just about anything once. Twice, though, especially if I didn’t like it the first time, is something else again.

That said, you know what you like. And why try escargot when you prefer veal?