Idk, I do read a lot of yaoi but I'm actually more interested in this because it's not yaoi...
As for why I like yaoi, there are lots of reasons including the ability to experience the concept of sex without having to relate it to my own body, (and yes, my selfish fetishization of submissive, feminine guys which can be frequently found in yaoi. Keep in mind that most yaoi isn't written by gays and is pretty unrealistic.) Mostly, I just enjoy the ability to explore more different, and sometimes deeper and darker concepts involving sex, romance, and life in general that I might find triggering to read if they had women in them. (Again, it's a matter of relating, but it's also the fact that the women get the short end of the stick in a lot of tragedies and that's not something I wanna project on my own life).
Anywho, your comment led me to this interesting-looking manga and I thank you for it. I also apologize for the fujos who made you this frustrated. X'D
i’m not a straight girl
and for me it’s just more interesting. i like reading love between men cuz it’s not so boring. but i don’t fetishize gay men irl. as long as it is fiction i ship it but irl i can’t do that if you’re not even together with the other person. even if you’re together and i don’t like you as a person i don’t suddenly like you just cuz you’re gay
for me a bi girl i honestly just find it more interesting i read yuri and yaoi however when it comes to gay men in real life i do not ask them if they are a “uwu omg bottom boy.” or a top u know?
my gay friends are honestly perfectly fine with me reading yaoi because they know i don’t fetishise them. i do not fetishise gay men and i do not want to be a man just to experience the “omg yaoi life.” :)) i hope that explains
but yes there are a lot of yaoi readers that do fetishise and it honestly makes a lot of us yaoi readers look really bad :(
Well for me I like bl cuz as u know many people are still not so open minded about this but seeing people of same sex genuinely fall for each other without caring about the consequences, I really like it. It's like in this fake world there are such people who love each other whole heartedly. Also I don't have a fetish for gay peaple. And that bottom/top thing doesn't even bother me. Like does that even matter ? All that matters is whether u love each other or not.

question why r yall disappointed its not a yaoi like genuinely as a gay person why do straight girls fetishize us