Sexuality in K/S Fiction: Genital Size
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| Title: | Sexuality in K/S Fiction: Genital Size |
| Creator: | Linda Frankel |
| Date(s): | May 1985 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Topic: | Fanfiction, Kirk/Spock |
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Sexuality in K/S Fiction: Genital Size was a installment of Linda Frankel's regular column, "Sexuality in K/S Fanfiction," which appeared in Not Tonight Spock! #9.
"I looked through all my notes on K/S stories and didn't see one reference to cock size. So let me speculate about why I think it isn't there."
The Series
For the seven other essays in this series, see Sexuality in K/S Fiction.
Excerpts
Cocks are central to male sexuality. It has been said that many men worship their cocks, but heterosexual men are afraid of doing it be thought "queer." Gay men have no use for such hypocrisy. In fact, there is a name for gay men particularly concerned with cock size — "size queen." The underlying belief is that larger is better.
For K/S writers to show either Kirk or Spock so openly craving masculinity by voicing interest in cock size may be too uncompromising a statement of gayness for them. So many K/S fans refuse to believe that the K/S relationship, by definition a relationship between two men, can possibly be homosexual in nature. Yet if they do desire one another, enjoyment of each other's masculinity and the cock as symbol of masculinity must be at the foundation of that desire.
Using Spock's reticence as a shield to prevent gay issues from surfacing has impoverished K/S fiction, in my view. Cock size is only one of the matters that have been shoved into the closet. It is a purpose of these articles to bring them out, so we can look at them and analyze their possible role in K/S fiction.