You really really tempt me into typing the phrase that must not be typed, that i seriously regret wondering about the viability of. Although... suddenly thought... i bet the novel "little women" is pretty safe... can't bring myself to check given the slew of horrendous not about the novel stuff that would come up. In fact is it one you've read? I have very mixed views about classical womens literature, i enjoy it, it's well written, but yeah, as much as i love pride and prejudice, not sure the female characters have the views we should be striving for lol. I did read little women as a child, and am slowly making my way through the audio book now, but it does seem to generally be an exception to some degree.

Characters are real, you break your heart, laugh and smile with them, they are real to you, so agree with you on that for sure. In a way, they almost become like friends, so to see that, yeah. Although equally if a character is as such they would do that, its gets a tiny bit more grey. That said, i dunno how i actually feel but, i can relate to the camp of "better they make the art/write about it and get their perverted fix that way than actually doing it" although i suspect it just makes thing worse but eh, i really don't know.