"This study sought to ask women in fan communities who read fanfiction containing nonconsensual sex, sex with dubious consent or rape fantasy, why they read this taboo kink and what they get from it. I interviewed three women who have participated in fan communities and read this kink. I hope to demonstrate the ways in which these women are taking discourses of oppressive control and flipping them, making stories vehicles for enacted subversive control. Ultimately I argue that in doing so, these women and these topics carry the potential to help us reorient and rethink human relations, to create safer and more understanding discourses surrounding women and desire." -- Abstract.
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