On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, White Wolf wrote:

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Jang Choe wrote:

I always thought either David M. Bateson, Thomas Cardwell, or WWolf was the
one of the ones who coined the term. Or maybe James Stone coined it. Or
Megazone, the former Moderator of the RAAC, Or it could have been Seawright
who coined it; no wait, she writes Lemons . . . hmmmm. So, you old timers
know who was it the first coined this term to fanfics?

!!!!  

It wasn't me.  Exactly how long do think I've been around, huh??

Maybe Megazone did.

The term "LEMON" comes from several JAPANESE sources, most notably such 
H-Anime as "Cream Lemon", "Lemon Angel" and "Lemon People" as well as a 
variety of Manga titles.

For reasons unknown to me, LEMON has connotations of "Sexiness" and
"Freshness" in japanese and is apparently commonly used by SOFT-porn 
companies in Japan.

The term entered general use in the Fanfic community some time before I 
was entrapped as a way of referring to a Fanfic with any serious sexual 
content.

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