Quote:I'm not entirely sure about that, really. I was under the impression that the division between sex (biology, anatomy) and gender (mental, identity, etc) was more of a contemporary 20th century sociology thingy. Starting mainly with Simone de Beauvoir and her 1949 work, "The Second Sex". She was one of the first to make an issue about it, anyway. But even she didn't use the terms - I think that's a modern thing.
See gender is a purely mental construct. Yes, the anatomical part of it, sex, can influence this heavily, but is not required. These are two separate, but related, things that got thesaurused into one word with two spellings.
I think most people grok the actual idea, though - that there's a separation between gender identity and the biological form the mind's housed in. At least, these days, we're more open to different sexualities and so on.
The notion's also sunk far enough into the mainstream that we can find, hell, pretty decent discussions of the topic in Ranma fanfic. It's not like all authors are ignorant of the implications. =)
Regardless, though...
I believe the Cosmic Pervert-Force is bigger than sex or gender.
Fanboys write horrible lemons, fangirls write horrible yaoi (lemon or otherwise), both sides have porn.
A while back, I was in a comic store with a couple of friends. One was a self-confessed fangirl, one was this normal dude completely ignorant about the whole anime subculture. So fangirl starts squeeing over this manga volume, professing her undying love for the protagonist - and describing what she wants to do to him in, ah, extremely graphic language.
Normal dude stares.
Him: "That's just...that's just wrong."
Me: "Hm?"
Him: "I'm glad guys don't go crazy like that. You don't see guys masterbating to cartoon characters."
Me: "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA---" (collapses on floor)
Him: "What? WHAT? You mean..."
Me: "You have NO IDEA."
-- Acyl