Larry Stylinson, as the steamy fictional relationship is hashtagged, is one of the most popular "ships" online, generating an estimated 600,000 stories on Wattpad. Instead of just following Harry Styles on Twitter, girls are reading gay erotica that imagines Styles' One Direction bandmate, Louis Tomlinson, going down on him.
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On another major fan-fic hub, Archive of Our Own, data from more than 10,000 respondents found that up to 36 percent of M/M fans surveyed were both heterosexual and female. Remember the rabid Matt Bomer fan base that created a petition when he was passed over for the Christian Grey role in Fifty Shades? And erotic male/male (M/M) fan fiction-or slash, as it's commonly called, inspired by the slash between male/male-is exploding at Wattpad, one of the largest fan fiction communities online, where two-thirds of users are women. Last year, researchers at the University of Montreal asked 1,516 people about their sexual fantasies and found that approximately 1 in 5 women is attracted to the idea of two men having sex. Like Kelly, some are down to make out or hook up with gay men in real life, a community that reluctantly calls itself girlfags or "girls who like boys who like boys." But more common is to fantasize about two hot guys having hot sex. It's been more hush-hush-and can feel more taboo-but some straight women feel the same way about gay men. Pretty much every threesome in pop culture is between a lucky man sandwiched between two sultry women (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Savages, Wild Things), whether lesbians or just conveniently gorgeous, sexually fluid women. Straight guys have long salivated over same-sex lady action: "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" is the rallying cry of the basic bro six beers deep at the bar, urging his girl friends to go at it for his enjoyment. A recent summer fling was a bisexual guy who was usually with men. In fact, she says, "Queer guys are my type." There have been other makeout sessions and hookups (but not intercourse) with "effeminate" guys who were either gay or seemed like they "swung both ways," she says. Her friends make fun of her for it, but she doesn't care.
It wasn't the first time Kelly has made out with a gay man…and it probably won't be the last. Like, Oh, hey, this feels right," she remembers. "We started dancing, and it just happened. But he was also, in Kelly's eyes, super hot. He made her laugh when he showed her that he'd packed an extra suitcase filled only with shoes. They met the previous day at a social-media marketing conference and became buddies, sitting side by side while Kelly trolled Tinder and he swiped through Grindr. It's after-hours at a bar in San Francisco, and Kelly, a straight 19-year-old college student, is making out with a gay guy.