Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology

Abstract

Abstract women have been writing Star Trek pornography since at least 1976, mostly in the United States. but also in Britain, Canada, and Australia. The idea did not begin with one person who then spread it to others, but seems to have arisen spontaneously in various places beginning in the mid-seventies, as fans recognized, through seeing the episodes countless times in syndication and on their own taped copies, that there was an erotic homosexual subtext there, or at least one that could easily be we to be there. Most of the writers and readers started off in ‘regular’ Star Trek fandom. and many are still involved in it, even while they pursue their myriad activities in what is called ‘K/S’ or ‘slash’ fandom.