In my experience, all three of your points are very overdone in every slash fandom I've read. And I agree that it's probably very young straight female writers going with what they know (and what they know tends to be the internet-published works of other very young straight female writers). I try to skip most of those fics. Unfortunately, even the more original (and, I assume, older and more genuinely experienced) fic writers are guilty of same.
And some of it is a YMMV sort of thing, depending on the rest of the fic that the particular trope is showing up in. Fer instance, if a fic has been painfully specific in what's going on - a 'he inserted his first finger to the second digit and twisted it two degrees to the left' sort of fic - than no mention of lube would worry me. In a fic with a more generalized or emotional description of the action, I wouldn't be bothered. I prefer the later, but sometimes there's good reason to be gritty. :P
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Date: 2008-12-08 07:15 pm (UTC)And some of it is a YMMV sort of thing, depending on the rest of the fic that the particular trope is showing up in. Fer instance, if a fic has been painfully specific in what's going on - a 'he inserted his first finger to the second digit and twisted it two degrees to the left' sort of fic - than no mention of lube would worry me. In a fic with a more generalized or emotional description of the action, I wouldn't be bothered. I prefer the later, but sometimes there's good reason to be gritty. :P