Cyberporn

For those who have discovered the pleasure of mangas and animations, some must have heard of doushinji and familiar with this genre, but for those who not having a clue what is this the doushinji could be consider to be fan-fiction or a little more a spin-off of popular manga but carries a different theme of the reader’s opinions and view of the work. Doushinji are usually love stories of characters in the original manga where they could be rivals or comrades or just friends. One of the most popular forms of doushinji is shonenai (boy-love) or a stronger theme of yaoi with characters has full intercourse. Based on this and going back to Uebel’s point on Cyberporn “As the Web becomes increasingly constructed as the imaginary reference point of the public, we begin to recognize our own desires as they are re-presented to us in the media senssuround.” So doushinji is just away for crazy-fan to have a little adventure and broaden their imagination to satisfy their own personal fantasy. So is this genre, could it be consider to be porn? Also, doushinji have a larger female fan-base with works ranging from vanilla love to bloody “battle” but is this a way that what Uebel called “It originates in cultural fantasies of hostility and defiance, rage and boredom, fantasies which change their tack in response to social anxiety, guilt, and identification with the victim.” Is this boy-boy relationship of doushinji characters and doushinji fandom creating a breeding ground for queer in the cyber-culture? Shonenai doushinji are mainly read by female fans, so female fantasizes about boy-on-boy situations than what do will make of this? Or it like Wakeford said “In reviewing the vast array of resources available, it is evident that the larger-scale socio-economic questions of the demographics of produc­tion and consumption of cyberqueer spaces remain largely unanswered.”