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Monia Ali's avatar

"That fan fiction often concerns sexual situations between two well-known characters" I guess that depends on your definition of 'often'? Destinationtoast who does fandom stats across multiple sites (AO3, Wattpad, FF.net) has covered the ratings' prevalence over many years and the majority of fic is not rated explicit or mature. But if you just mean sexual situations that are not necessarily explicit, then sure, because romance is overwhelmingly represented.

You might also be interested to know that AO3 demographic surveys show heterosexual as the third most represented sexuality--below bi/pan and asexual. I don't think the Reddit stats are wrong, but I think the discrepancy just shows the different user bases, perhaps? Always interesting to ponder.

(will post to notes so I can share the graphs!)

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Kiniaczu's avatar

I got a comment on AO3 today, good timing lol

I didn't expect romance to be so high up in the favorite genres chart when smut was also an option. I guess people are less horny than I thought...

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