(Fan)tasizing: BDSM and fantasy in Wattpad's erotic fanfiction

The objective of this research is to analyze the representations of BDSM practices as sexual fantasies in fanfictions posted on the website Wattpad. To do so, I dwell into Queer studies for my methodology, relying on names such as Robin Bauer, Gayle Rubin and Juana Maria Rodríguez. I trace a line from fan studies to BDSM to understand how the concept of fantasy connects both topics discussed in the research. My selection of four objects of analysis, being them two fanfictions about celebrities and two about fictional characters, made it possible for me to answer my main research question on whether fictional character's stories would provide wilder sexual fantasies while celebrity's stories offered ethical fantasies, especially regarding the approach to BDSM, its rules and limitations. I have discovered that such worry regarding ethicality in sexual fantasy comes from readers, but not authors. Furthermore, as fanfiction tends to be a genre of exaggerated fiction, I didn't find it incongruent that authors did not decide to introduce BDSM in a didactic manner or ethically. The limitations of this dissertation regarding the lack of representativity in the characters portrayed in the stories are acknowledged.