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Unlike sadomasochistic fantasy material, hurt-comfort places the source of the injury outside of the dyad of sufferer and comforter….
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I’ve been reading hurt-comfort since the 1970’s - it predates slash although not by much and I would guess that half of it still is non-slash.
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To quote Camille Bacon-Smith, who did a study of fanfic in the 1980s’, Unlike sadomasochistic fantasy material, hurt-comfort places the source of the injury outside of the dyad of sufferer and comforter….
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