“Y’know, that sounds dirtybadwrong. Like, an incredibly perverse sex act that involves bodily excretions that have no business being excreted during sex.”
Talking about payment in kind was very tacky when they'd been thundering towards the kind of dirtybadwrong porno-sex that she'd remember on her deathbed.
To put it in more impressive-sounding terms, we [female members of fandom] proclaim our rebellion against constricting social norms by celebrating a subversive sexuality […] And then something magical happens—others in fandom let us know that that whatever that is, it's okay. In fact, more than a few fellow fans have harbored a secret liking of whatever-it-is themselves. They jump online to say "OMG yes, me too!" or “OMG so dirtybadwrong, gimme more!”
2017, "Hydratrashmeme", quoted in Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 215:
If you want to get judgey about the fact that some people get off on dirtybadwrong things happening to their favorite characters, this isn't the venue for that debate.
2020, Angie Fazekas, "Alpha/Beta/Omega: Racialized Narratives and Fandom's Investment in Whiteness", in Fandom, Now in Color: A Collection of Voices (ed. Rukmini Pande), page 100:
Alongside the fact that most fans appreciate the “crazy hot sex” and “'dirtybadwrong” nature of the explicit sexuality in the omegaverse, there is a repeated reference to the ability of the trope to question, consider, and subvert gender and sexual hierarchies and oppressions.
