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Remember when I asked "does this make me famous or does this make me fandomwank?

The answer turns out to be fandomwank.

I hope the folks mining my LJ for wankability enjoyed the boring stuff about my cold and my cats.

Date: 2005-03-23 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zinelady.livejournal.com

I'm new to LJ too, and while I don't know what LJ wanking is, I'm fairly familiar with the concept in 3D land. Isn't a pleasurable but at times pathetic or lonely experience? As in wanking all over Miss April in Playboy?


Or in the case of some fans, Jim and Blair doing the horizontal tango or Kirk and Spock getting down and dirty on shoreleave. *grins*

But seriously, I don't consider masturbation a pathetic act. People have sex drives and no matter what the 'church' tries to tell us, masturbation is not a sin. It's just a way to fulfill our needs when another partner isn't available, willing or able. We're not going to go blind or grow hair on our palms. It doesn't cause STDs or babies. To me, that's a big plus.

Date: 2005-03-23 02:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fandance.livejournal.com
I agree, it's not a sin, and it does fulfill a human sexual need, and it doesn't lead to blindness. There is lots to commend it. Rather, I'm commenting on how *sometimes* when done alone, with no other human contact to share it, it can be lonely. I think that's another aspect of the human condition.

Date: 2005-03-23 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Except in this case they're not wanking in that sense so much as dramatizing. It's all about the drama. Wonder if "Fandom drama" was taken as a community title?

Date: 2005-03-23 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redstarrobot.livejournal.com
"Fanwank" as a term has a long and respectable history. :)

Date: 2005-03-23 03:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com
Also, I think it came out of the common Brit usage, which tends to imply masturbation to excess and/or to the exclusion of other activities.

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