It just seems like an odd thing. I mean, I can understand why a child protection group might not know the difference between fannish and not fannish groups, but shouldn't livejournal know by now? Since I assume that fannish content makes up a sizable part of their traffic?
To me the approach in fandom is just different to me. Mostly because fandom deals with very specific attractions. We love *Shephard* and *Teyla* and *Dean* and *Sam* or *Harry* or *Snape*. If somebody wrote the very same story about different set of people the fans wouldn't be interested. Which to me says that it's not the act that turns them on but these particular fictional people. Remove the people and there's no interest in the act. And since you can't harm the fictional people on account of them, well, being fictional, the whole point of real people being hurt is moot to me. The fictional people in question can't be affected and no others will be affected because it's the fictional people that make the specific interest.
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To me the approach in fandom is just different to me. Mostly because fandom deals with very specific attractions. We love *Shephard* and *Teyla* and *Dean* and *Sam* or *Harry* or *Snape*. If somebody wrote the very same story about different set of people the fans wouldn't be interested. Which to me says that it's not the act that turns them on but these particular fictional people. Remove the people and there's no interest in the act. And since you can't harm the fictional people on account of them, well, being fictional, the whole point of real people being hurt is moot to me. The fictional people in question can't be affected and no others will be affected because it's the fictional people that make the specific interest.