As long as I'm being witty and abrasive toward practices of which I disapprove, let me turn my gaze on slash fanfiction. It's a subject that hits close to home, as some of these pairings end in guys getting pregnant, which is of course my domain.
Let me start with a hypothetical pair of main characters. One is the squeaky-clean protagonist - let's call him, say ... Larry. And the other is the vile, cheating, nasty antagonist - named, uh ... Halfoy. (Naturally, these are just names off the top of my head; they could just as easily be, say, Mack Darrow and Commander Borington.) Here's the situation:
Larry and Halfoy have spent years attending