Enjoyed reading your list of reasons and pretty much agree with your 'but, wait...' ripostes as well.

I don't know what I like about slash, or why I, almost exclusively, write it these days. I began as a het writer (Buffy/Spike) and then stumbled over a Spike/Xander fic and once I'd cooled off enough to think coherently realized I was in a whole new world.

It turns me on. It interests me. I've tried to work out why, but I can't.

I don't know why it's so important to us that we work out why, but it must be because it comes up so often :-)