Hi, just got on the list so I apologize if this has already been said.
:)

It's really rather silly to quantify something _that_ much, especially
when the people writing the gay 'fics that I've seen have all had a
FEMALE Ranma with a guy!

Um...  how is that gay?

Because Ranma thinks of himself as a male, and has spent at least 16 years
of his life as a male. It's gay because Ranma's body, to him, is just
something he 'wears', and it doesn't change his personality or his psyche
or anything else - the only thing it changes is his appearance (and his
speed, etc). It's purely physical.

It's kind of like dressing up as a bull and having sex with a cow - you
are not a bull, even if your outfit is realistic down to the last detail.
You are still you. Therefore it would be beastiality. It's the inside that
counts, not the appearance.

Kun-chan...

I think the problem here is POV.

Now you say its homosexual sex because Ranma believes he is a boy even
though he is female in body.  What about it from his partners POV.  I
don't know the origanal example, but let's use Kunoh (Oh BTW my spelling
on names STINKS).  
If you walked up to them the next morning and interviewed Kunoh and said
something like "Have you ever had Homosexual relationship?" His response
would problably be some sort of insult followed by a pummeling.

Also Ranma doesn't wear a coustume he BECOMES a girl in all physical
ways.  A scary thought would be when Ranma becomes a girl for an extend
time and has to introduced to the Tampon ("You stick that WHERE?")  But
any way, Even though Ranma thinks he is a man he IS a woman.  If
Ranma-chan is having sex with a man then it is heterosexual.  But to say
it is similiar to saying that two guys having sex is actually
heterosexual, just because one guy believes he is a
woman-trapped-in-a-man's-body.  Or that a woman who  was a man (but had
the snip snip operation) is having gay sex when with a man.

Now this is from my point of view, from Ranma's he may think he has had
gay sex and would affect him as if he were a man. 

One of the few non Viz Ranma's I've been able to see was #125 (somewhere
around there) where Akane connects with a frying pan and Ranma thinks
that he was born a female.  So here's the question, if Ranma while in
this state of mind changed into boy-type and had sex Akane, would that
be a Lesbian encounter?

But of course the most important thing is how well its written. 

 Well that's more then enough for now. :)

   David


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----Butthead