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Open Discussion of RPS Stories in Light of Heath's Death
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on January 30, 2008, 11:18:58 pm ---There are two terms in current common use: RPF and RPS. RPF is Real Person Fiction, and RPS is Real Person Slash. And RPS is a story about a sex relationship, and in this fandom, it involves a sex relationship between Jack and Heath. So I would argue that in this context, the objections being raised are specifically about postulating a homosexual relationship between two admittedly heterosexual men, Jake and Heath.
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Thanks for that, Louise. Indeed, I'm not objecting to RPF. I'm not sure I even have an opinion about RPF. My concerns are about RPS.
blacktears:
So the issue here is sex and not the fact that its about real people? Oh okay because I thought the 'distasteful' part of RPS was that they people were real, but I now see we are discussing something else entirely.
So sex is perverse? Is it more acceptable if its a man and a woman having sexual relations in RPF?
louisev:
I think Jeff was stating his own opinion, blacktears.
I have stated my own reservations and objections in many posts throughout this thread, and summarized them here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,16622.msg326853.html#msg326853
RPF - stories with no sexual content - were never under discussion, because that is not what I wrote, and that is not what RPS in this fandom is about. However, the reservations I stated are not obviated by there being no sex content in the story - they would be obviated by the subjects giving their PERMISSION for the stories. Which of course, is unlikely if not impossible. Certainly impossible in the case of Heath, and aggravated, in my opinion, by the circumstance of his death.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: blacktears on January 31, 2008, 12:10:34 am ---So the issue here is sex and not the fact that its about real people? Oh okay because I thought the 'distasteful' part of RPS was that they people were real, but I now see we are discussing something else entirely.
So sex is perverse? Is it more acceptable if its a man and a woman having sexual relations in RPF?
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Excuse you. Nobody said anything about sex being "perverse." That isn't what this discussion is about.
souxi:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 25, 2008, 05:23:53 pm ---Indeed. If nothing else, I think it would be in poor taste.
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Yes it would Jeff. I,ve read RPS before about Jake and Heath but now, in light of Heaths tragic death, I feel that for authors to write RPS about them, whether or not they are having sex, is extreemly disrepectful to Heaths family, hie friends and his memory. It,s not the legalities of it that bothers me because I don,t write. It,s the principal of the matter. It,s WRONG....end of.
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