This is a brilliant essay and I've only just got into the fandom. The first time I saw it I was all Al/Ed because, come on the way they scream each others names is one big clue to how much they love each other (and the practice they must get).

You've gone through it fantastically, the whole incest issue is a big, big thing for people but I don't understand why such unconditional love can't be sexual...it boggles me.

I'm glad there are people that agree with me!

(and it's interesting that a lot of Ed/Al shippers are also Roy/Ed shippers. Maybe we are just all perverts, what with the incest and the slightly paedophilic relationships. I say this in jest, by the by.)