2021-09-01 7:15:48 ¶ ●

Why are there so many explicit fics involving Jon Sims, who canonically is ace and “just…doesn’t” have sex?

I can’t tell if this is on the side of “you do you” or something worse?

Like, I know that ace people can enjoy sex (although that quote implies that Jon doesn’t want to have sex). I know that fanfiction is very much a “you do you, that’s great” type of thing. (If I don’t like it, I can just not read it. I know.)

On the other hand, Jon is implied to not want to have sex. He’s asexual and sex-neutral or sex-repulsed (tell me if I got that part wrong). I’m also ace and either of those things. It seems weird to me that there’s explicit fic with him in it. (Although of course explicit stuff is a ‘nope’ for me in general, so.) Is it kind of erasing him being ace to do that?

So I don’t know.

Edit: I did look on ao3 to see how many it was, and I suppose about 1000 out of almost 17000 isn’t really ‘so many’. But it still feels like too many? I don’t know.