Meaning of hurt/comfort | Babel Free

Definitions

A genre of fan fiction in which a character receives comfort from another after or while suffering injury, illness, or a traumatic experience.

slang, uncountable

Examples

“Hurt/comfort stories often contain enough gore to send shivers down the back of activists concerned with the conflation of sex and violence.”

“She proposes that writing slash — specifically the hurt/comfort genre, which involves assault, abuse and recovery — provides a therapeutic outlet for genuine, deep feelings of emotional pain.”

“While genres for these stories range from drama to mystery, many stories are classified by their authors as romances or as “hurt/comfort” stories.”

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