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  1. Why does fanfiction undo the Subversive Nature of the Buffy/Spike Relationship in the Television Series? by

    Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

    03 Jun 2022

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    It was something said offhand in a fanfic discussion - about how kinky it was to subvert the canonical Buffy/Spike relationship so that Spike was in control and Buffy was submissive. This threw me for a loop. How is this kinky, I thought? First off in about 99% of the romances and novels published in our entire history, the male is the one in control and the female is the submissive party - he's stronger than she is. We live in a patriarchial society, our presidents, leaders, rulers are men, with a few exceptions here and there. The accepted position for sex is the missionary pose - ie. the guy on top and the girl on the bottom. Also men are supposed to be the ones to initiate sex, it's considered kinky when they don't.

    In Buffy, the subversion, the kink - was Buffy was shown as the dominant partner, and Spike the sex slave or submissive, yet in a lot of fanfiction, the writers turn it around.

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