So, um, you guys know me well enough that you saw the length and amount of detail coming, right? ;)
INDEED. And I did wonder why the response to my query seemed deceptively muted, until I realized mildred had replied to selenak and had all had migrated over here XD
Now THIS is the extensive, academic, rife-with-citations, and demonstrably peer-reviewed, discussion on sexual dynamics that I would have expected from this fandom ♥
Fritz/pages/low sex drive/haemorrhoids: you know, it may be that the gossipy contemporaries of the day thought the haemorrhoids were [er, CONTENT WARNING for possible grossness] due to rampant and unsafe bottoming practices? As detailed in this rather interesting but also possibly TMI article on the history of haemorrhoids (the summary of the article warns for descriptions of spanking and leeches around the anus, JSYK).
Fritz/Katte: I'm up for the different Katte lives AU headcanons of their bedroom practices! Obviously their tragedy is that they didn't get to experience nearly enough domesticity and happiness together to conclude as to their romantic emotional dynamic, let alone their sexual dynamic, but I'd imagine at the early point in their lives Katte was the physical as well as emotional top (I would agree that they might not have gotten down to penetrative sex at this point, though surely the piles don't start to plague our king this early his life?), and if they got a happy (happier) ending, Katte would help Fritz deal with his sexual issues and they'd manage a fairly egalitarian physical and emotional switching consensus.
Fritz/Algarotti: clearly Fritz tops! And Algarotti blows him. In the carriage travelling many many miles west ♥
Fritz/Suhm and Fredersdorf: I definitely don't see the king bottoming for Fredersdorf (though he might ask his loyal valet-with-benefits to pet him or service him, maybe?), but in an AU where they'd actually go there I could actually see him letting Suhm top physically as well as emotionally? I mean, one doesn't casually Pylades oneself in writing without going there in one's head, at least for a moment?
Fritz/Voltaire: again in our alternate universe and in circumstances wherein they'd get so worked up that they'd actually go for it, I can totally see the mutual bratty handjobs complete with snarky banter and nobody-tops, battling-for-dominance. King Fritz suddenly displays way more snark than Crown Prince Fritz did, turns out to be wily on a level Voltaire clearly hadn't anticipated and thus is a constant challenge of wits really works for me; I am hoping this conversation might have encouraged some other members of the salon to write it...!
[And, ftr, this is where fic/fannish discussion transcends the petty gossip: we're (1) p. sure they never went there IRL, but possibly wanted to, and (2) all this topping discourse isn't a matter of mere prurient voyeurism but a genuine interest in their characters and their personal dynamics. Via speculation about their sex lives, admittedly, but still -- ours is a higher calling ;)
PS: even opera bloggers do it! In commentary on the Thomas Hampson Hadrian opera, which notes that, in the choreography for the opera's sex scene, the emperor uncharacteristically bottoms.]
Re: Toppings of all types, continued
INDEED. And I did wonder why the response to my query seemed deceptively muted, until I realized mildred had replied to selenak and had all had migrated over here XD
Now THIS is the extensive, academic, rife-with-citations, and demonstrably peer-reviewed, discussion on sexual dynamics that I would have expected from this fandom ♥
Fritz/pages/low sex drive/haemorrhoids: you know, it may be that the gossipy contemporaries of the day thought the haemorrhoids were [er, CONTENT WARNING for possible grossness] due to rampant and unsafe bottoming practices? As detailed in this rather interesting but also possibly TMI article on the history of haemorrhoids (the summary of the article warns for descriptions of spanking and leeches around the anus, JSYK).
Fritz/Katte: I'm up for the different Katte lives AU headcanons of their bedroom practices! Obviously their tragedy is that they didn't get to experience nearly enough domesticity and happiness together to conclude as to their romantic emotional dynamic, let alone their sexual dynamic, but I'd imagine at the early point in their lives Katte was the physical as well as emotional top (I would agree that they might not have gotten down to penetrative sex at this point, though surely the piles don't start to plague our king this early his life?), and if they got a happy (happier) ending, Katte would help Fritz deal with his sexual issues and they'd manage a fairly egalitarian physical and emotional switching consensus.
Fritz/Algarotti: clearly Fritz tops! And Algarotti blows him. In the carriage travelling many many miles west ♥
Fritz/Suhm and Fredersdorf: I definitely don't see the king bottoming for Fredersdorf (though he might ask his loyal valet-with-benefits to pet him or service him, maybe?), but in an AU where they'd actually go there I could actually see him letting Suhm top physically as well as emotionally? I mean, one doesn't casually Pylades oneself in writing without going there in one's head, at least for a moment?
Fritz/Voltaire: again in our alternate universe and in circumstances wherein they'd get so worked up that they'd actually go for it, I can totally see the mutual bratty handjobs complete with snarky banter and nobody-tops, battling-for-dominance. King Fritz suddenly displays way more snark than Crown Prince Fritz did, turns out to be wily on a level Voltaire clearly hadn't anticipated and thus is a constant challenge of wits really works for me; I am hoping this conversation might have encouraged some other members of the salon to write it...!
[And, ftr, this is where fic/fannish discussion transcends the petty gossip: we're (1) p. sure they never went there IRL, but possibly wanted to, and (2) all this topping discourse isn't a matter of mere prurient voyeurism but a genuine interest in their characters and their personal dynamics. Via speculation about their sex lives, admittedly, but still -- ours is a higher calling ;)
PS: even opera bloggers do it! In commentary on the Thomas Hampson Hadrian opera, which notes that, in the choreography for the opera's sex scene, the emperor uncharacteristically bottoms.]
Heinrich/Lehndorff (and /Marwitz): my heart feels the whole height of this pleasure as I haven't been able to enjoy it for such a long time seems to suggest Lehndorff bottoms for his prince, actually? esp since there wasn't a lot of height to Heinrich? Though you might be right, they switch that night (and the later banged all night event); Heinrich seems switchy, and a total emotional top. The whole tiny mouthy guy, many well-built favourites, must top from the bottom is a bit of a fandom cliché as well as the natural speculation of gossipy contemporaries; I would second the call for this tiny mouthy guy to get to top, sexually, and in particular to top Big Brother's sort-of-ex...