Kirk and Mr. Spock took their powerful friendship a step or two further. Hundreds of slash sites litter the Internet, some with art, graphic and otherwise, most of them with archives full of stories. Hundreds of stories. Thousands of stories. Stories that describe cooings and couplings of the most extraordinary nature.
Nothing is sacred, everything is slashed.
There are rules, after all. And there are rules. And much introspection and dialogue between the growing legion of slash writers, who often spend six hours a day working on their hobby. Constance Penley, a professor in the department of film studies at UC Santa Barbara, has been studying slash for more than 20 years. She stumbled across it while researching themes of gender in science fiction.