stuffertystuffstuff asked: Would you say that one of the reasons that m/m outnumbers femslash is because there are just no sexy or erotic terms for ladyparts?

Hmm, there’s a lot of stuff to unpack here.

First off, m/m outnumbers f/f only in certain areas. If I took a survey of mainstream porno films, I’m willing to bet that girl-on-girl scenes would vastly outnumber guy-on-guy scenes, because mainstream porn’s target audience is straight men. Or even if we look at non-porn television and film in the US — portraying or teasing at lesbian relationships is much more common than the opposite because producers are catering to straight male audiences.

On the flip side, fandom is mostly the domain of straight women, particularly the part concerned with creating fanfic and fanart, so that’s why fandom has this massive glut of yaoi and very little yuri to balance it out.

As for there being no sexy/erotic terms for ladybits, that’s debatable. I agree that there are fewer terms for ladybits in general, which is a shame, but some of them are sexy, depending on your tastes. Heck, we’re overflowing with imaginative terms for breasts. And there are plenty of awfully unsexy terms for male anatomy floating around, like dong, schlong, wang, nuts, nads, wiener, willy, family jewels, mantool, pulsing man meat, caged viper, trouser snake, pork sword, sausage, you know what, just crack open a cheap romance novel or internet badfic and you’ll find plenty of deeply unappealing and/or ridiculous words for a guy’s dangly bits.