Lust or Love

Lust...or Love? is a Harry Potter fanfic by Sarinileni, often considered to be a James/Lily fandom classic. Its two-time deletion from FanFiction.Net for sexual content was the catalyst for the creation of the Unknowable Room archive in 2005.
It was nominated in both the categories "Love" and "Lust" for the first round of the Multifaceted Awards, beginning in December 2004, and won for "Lust" ("The PWP Award").Multifaceted Awards, Round One Nominees and Round One Winners, archived 07 August 2008 by the Wayback Machine. Lust or Love also won first place in the category "Best NC-17 Fic" at the 2007 Hourglass Awards.Hourglass Awards at Unknowable Room. Hga2007-winners, archived 09 December 2011 by the Wayback Machine.
Author's summary: "Lily accidentally tells her boyfriend she's experienced, and that she learned everything from James Potter. Now she has two weeks to learn how to be good in bed, and she's taking lessons from Potter. But can their explosive enmity take the strain?"
==History==
Lust or Love? was first posted to FanFiction.Net as a work in progress starting on June 1, 2004.FanFiction.Net Profile : Sarinileni at FanFiction.Net, archived 17 September 2004 by the Wayback Machine. In mid-March 2005, when 26 chapters had been posted and the story had around 6,000 reviews,sarinileni at LiveJournal. Decision, posted 15 April 2005. the story was deleted by FanFiction.Net for violating its policy on explicit content. A re-edited, R-rated version of the story was re-uploaded to FanFiction.Net starting on March 21, 2005.FanFiction.Net : Profile : Sarinileni at FanFiction.Net, archived 31 March 2005 by the Wayback Machine. This new version of Lust or Love was again deleted by FanFiction.Net in April 2005, prompting outrage among Sarinileni's fans and friends.sarinileni at LiveJournal. ..., posted 14 April 2005.Solarism (deconstructlj) at LiveJournal. RANT, posted 14 April 2005.
These events directly led to the creation of the LiveJournal community The Great Break and to a new fanfiction archive, Unknowable Room.
Following the second deletion of the fic, Sarinileni began posting the story at her LiveJournal and ultimately Portkey.org.sarinileni at LiveJournal. (no subject), posted 20 April 2005.sarinileni at LiveJournal. Portkey, posted 22 April 2005. The story was completed at Portkey on July 15, 2005.PORTKEY.ORG >> profile - Sarinileni at Portkey.org, archived 04 August 2007 by the Wayback Machine. It was posted to Unknowable Room in October 2006.ur.org; sarinileni's Fanfics at Unknowable Room, archived 31 August 2009 by the Wayback Machine. It was imported to Archive of Our Own along with the rest of Unknowable Room in 2017 to 2018 as part of the Open Doors project.
==Spin-Offs==
* James: Lust...or Love? — Planned as a five-part retelling of Lust or Love from James's POV, "arranged as a slighty-warped Aristotelian Tragedy".sarinileni at LiveJournal. Story Information, dated 16 December 2006. Only the first part is available.
* Sabia and Clark: Before Lust...or Love? — Background on James's parents set before Lust or Love. Unfinished with 3/4 chapters posted.
==Fan Translations==
* French: Lust or Love ? by Ky0ko (2004–2005); first 5 chapters only
* German: Lust or Love? by kissgirl; now offline
==Fan Comments==
==See Also==
* Lust or Love at UnknowableWiki (archive link)
==References==
Category:Het Fanfiction
Category:2004 Fanfiction‎
Category:2005 Fanfiction‎
Category:Marauders Fanfiction