Thank you for making these points: (1) in many discussions of what women mean and do when they write about men having sex, there has been a very odd/troubling/significant erasure of the majority of slashers identifying as queer; (2) there may be historically specific explanations for this erasure; and (3) it's past time for academic work on slash to upgrade its research methods in order to generate better data on which to base its analyses, and it's past time for academics and the rest of us to keep sharing and recycling citations to early 'studies' that have disappeared into the mists of internet history and cannot now be consulted.

Oh, and thanks for queering the conversation because, yes, it would indeed seem that the majority of slashers identify as queer.