The pen[is] mightier: textual sex

Found a passage when researching The Monk that I thought was rather applicable to the current OTW imbroglio: on the sexualized imagery of plagiarism and conventionality in Gothic Lit. (I've enjoyed working on the Gothic due to that very conventionality - in some way it functions very similarly to fannish tropes.) Deals with homosexuality, "penetration" and muse sex.

( from Fitzgerald, The Sexuality of Authorship in The Monk )