Editing Slash fiction (section)

===Original slash===
Original slash stories are those that contain male/male content, based on perceived homoerotic subtext between fictitious characters.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays|author1=Hellekson, Karen |author2=Busse, Kristina |publisher=McFarland|year=2006|location=Jefferson}}</ref> This can be sourced from a variety of media content, such as manga, TV shows, movies and books amongst others. These works are now generally published online<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=A|year=2006|title=Fan fiction online: engagement, critical response and affective play through writing|journal=Australian Journal of Language & Literacy|volume=29|pages=226–239}}</ref> and use the same forms of rating, warnings and terminology that is commonly used by slash writers.

Slash has a different sensibility to gay fiction, probably because most slash readers are female and in a closed community that shares their tastes, which makes most stories in the genre centered into emotional relationships, even as sex is very prominent.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

A different variety of homoerotic amateur fiction is original yaoi, from the [[manga]]/[[anime]] genre [[yaoi]] (boy-love), popularized in the West by subbers and [[scanlation]]s.

Both (original slash and original yaoi) are terms that are considered somewhat controversial by some slash fans since they feel that the term 'slash' can only refer to works of fan fiction and not original works.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}