I appreciate that you took the time to post this because I think what you're saying is important. I'm a very h/c-oriented person--it's a pretty hard-wired part of my brain, and I don't think that's going to change--but I try to be very conscious of RL issues on the occasions when I write about serious things like disabilities. Posts like yours remind me to keep grounded in that regard.
Hurt/comfort stories seem to rely on a trope that love and/or sex can "fix" or greatly resolve the problems created by the disability or traumatic event.
Not to take away from what you've said, but that's not really my experience of h/c, especially h/c from recent years. I'm fond of a lot of gen h/c or established-relationship h/c that shows how dealing with an issue (often relatively minor things like the flu or a toothache or a minor injury) reveals the closeness already between two characters. Certainly there is "healing cock" h/c, but it's by no means the majority of what I see.
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Date: 2010-06-13 02:28 am (UTC)Hurt/comfort stories seem to rely on a trope that love and/or sex can "fix" or greatly resolve the problems created by the disability or traumatic event.
Not to take away from what you've said, but that's not really my experience of h/c, especially h/c from recent years. I'm fond of a lot of gen h/c or established-relationship h/c that shows how dealing with an issue (often relatively minor things like the flu or a toothache or a minor injury) reveals the closeness already between two characters. Certainly there is "healing cock" h/c, but it's by no means the majority of what I see.