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Essay: Jareth's Version A few days ago, I chanced to mention Labyrinth to a lady of my acquaintance, and asked why it was that most Labyrinth fanfic writers are women. She answered that it was the quintessential female coming-of-age story, of a young woman's sexual awakening.  The nuances and details were so perfectly tailored to that subject that it took someone with two X chromosomes to fully appreciate it. She was shocked when I suggested that it was also a male coming-of-age story, and was only partially mollified when I presented a few of my feminist credentials. I thought I'd use this space to expand on what I meant. A woman's life