In Flagrante Delicto

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	In Flagrante Delicto
Author(s):	M. Fae Glasgow
Date(s):	1991
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	online here
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In Flagrante Delicto is a Bodie/Doyle story by M. Fae Glasgow.

It was printed in £3 Note Series #1.

Fan Comments

'In Flagrante Delicto'; you like to feminise Doyle, or read stories in which he's been feminised? Heh, heh, heh.

I haven't read anything that's too off the wall. Except for one story where Doyle liked to dress in women's undies. This was a bit of a shock to Bodie, but in the end he accepted the idea. In a way, the story was quite romantic, and well written. Bodie put up with it because he loved Doyle -- and what harm was he doing anyway?

No one should be asked to edit their dreams and fantasies. If they then choose to write them down it is up to them; if they want to share their fantasies with a wider audience it is their choice, whether it is a 'sick' fantasy or the best thing since sliced bread - remembering that both labels will be attached to the same fantasy by different people. It is your choice whether you read it or not, no one is forcing slash readers to read slash or variations thereof. Personally, I think that everyone has the right to publish what they want. Through the grapevine, I have heard some of your fiction described as 'sick', because some people seem to think that a story about Doyle wearing ladies underwear must be, by definition, 'sick'. (I think it's called 'IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO'? Sorry if I've got it wrong, but as I'm writing this at work I can't check.)

Here goes with another soapbox. What I REALLY HATE are the people who slag off a story because they think it is 'sick' and 'disgusting' without having read the story first. I hope you won't mind me using your story as an example but it seems to me to go beyond the 'I won't read death stories' camp. I can understand the person who says, "I won't read death stories as I want my heroes/friends to live forever", but I don't understand the labeling of a story as 'sick' purely on the basis of a choice of clothes, a liking for a particular sexual practice, or purely on hearsay. I may not like the story when I finally get the money together to read it, but that doesn't make it 'sick', it just means that I didn't like that particular version of Doyle, although another writer maybe could convince me about the frilly underwear.

If we only ever read what we know we will like, how are we ever going to find new things to like?