I recently talked about real-person slash and how it’s not the most ethical type of writing one can do. I’ve also talked about how I will scroll Reddit for a little while before bed, looking at dogs and butts and whatever else the Reddit algorithm thinks I might be interested in. 

Every few days or so, Reddit shows me a post from (ostensibly) a couple of female pharmacists who are just looking for a guy to fuck them after work. These supposed pharmacists (the backgrounds look like actual pharmacy back-stock areas so I’m inclined to believe at least one of them is) are almost always at least partially nude. 

Last night I saw yet another picture of these two women, and I had an absurd thought — what if I wrote an erotica story where someone actually responded to them and got to fuck them? I’m sure plenty of men have fantasized about being between them; would writing down the fantasy make it less ethical? (To be fair, I haven’t actually had this fantasy, but I’m jonesing for something new to write about, erotica-wise.)

Would writing this erotica story be real-person slash? I mean, these two women are indeed real people, but how much of what they post on Reddit is fictional? Do they really want to find a guy to fuck, or are they just trying to get people to go to their OnlyFans pages? (I don’t know if they have OnlyFans pages; I haven’t checked their profile.) Or are they just showing off because it gets them off? I guess it depends upon how realistic the character is compared to the person. 

I’m going to guess it’s all some sort of plan to get people to buy their content, because I’ve seen other posters use the same post headings — they are a [profession] looking for a guy to fuck after work. In addition to the pharmacists, I’ve also seen a teacher and a secretary. A lot of posts on Reddit use the same type of heading to draw attention (ie: your Xth favorite Y) so I assume there’s some sort of marketer who comes up with this stuff. I mean, I guess it could be organic — one person does it, others see it and decide it’s a good idea so they copy it — but I’m cynical. 

I probably won’t write the story about these two purported pharmacists (unless they read this and commission me to do so). But if I did, would it be unethical? Would it be more or less unethical than writing Sherlock slash, or Star Trek slash, or Gilmore Girls slash? What about pro wrestling slash? 

I guess it all depends on how “real” the characters are. And in this case, I guess we’ll never really know.