Eye Sex
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| Synonyms: | eye!sex, eye!fuck, eye fucking, eyesmex, held gaze, longing look |
| See also: | Slash Goggles, UST, Pining |
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Eye sex refers to a heated gaze between two characters. Sometimes the gaze is seen as eye sex through slash goggles, though other times (especially in canonical relationships), the gaze is canon. Some fandoms appear to use the term more often than others.
Fandoms
- Professional Wrestling is rather reknowned for its eye-sexing potential. Often fans will use slash goggles to read intense gazes as being something more than hatred/anger/tension in feuds, and many a fanwork has been inspired by them.[1]
- DCU, being a comics-based fandom, relies on artist vision to create tension in scenes. Fans often read the dialog in transformative ways.[2]
- Oz (HBO)
- Heroes was known for fans commenting on the eye sex between Claire Bennett and Peter Petrelli. The characters are niece and uncle. The actors were a couple.
- The Television Without Pity Smallville forum included a thread for the Gayest Look Of The Episode (shortened to GAYLE) to critique whether Omar G had awarded this to the correct scene in his episode recap. When a semi-official site gives out an award for slashy eyesex each episode and the fans get to argue whether another scene was slashier, you know you've hit paydirt.
- This trope is hugely popular in the Supernatural fandom, especially in the Dean/Castiel community. Fans have claimed that it's transcended "eye sex" and become "eye making-love".
- Bleach fandom's Ichigo/Rukia shippers referred to certain exchanged looks between the characters as "eye smex" and "eye fucking".
- Mulder/Scully from the X-Files are famous for this trope, notably and canon in Mulder's I do not gaze at Scully line from the season six Episode Rain King
They can try to hide it and they may think they’re safe as long as they don’t say anything, but the eyes are the windows to the soul, my friends. Although not an actual form of sex, eye sex still counts, especially because it fuels my second point.
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. Other fandoms? Merlin? White Collar? Sherlock? |
Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
- Forever Knight - Unnamed Faction wallpaper (on faction site) and icon design
Meta and other
Vids
- The Look of Love by Ash is a Supernatural vid that is all about the way Sam and Dean look at each other. With a little bit of Dean/Impala thrown in too.[4]
- I Swear by dualbunny, greensilver, pipsqueak, and sweetestdrain. A Smallville vid that made a strong case for the many long(ing) gazes between Clark and Lex meaning more than canon showed.
References
- ^ slashburd, (2010). Epic Eye-Sex is Epic. Retrieved 7 December 2010. Webcite.
- ^ thefourthvine, (2004). Tell Me How to Celebrate, Part 1: the Slashiest Fandom Retrieved 3 December, 2010. Webcite, and LJ version of comment thread at the post. (Accessed 7 Feb 2012)
- ^ The X-Files Guide to Relationships, Archived version
- ^ Livejournal vid post and YouTube version, accessed December 3, 2010