Around 16. I was in a school activity and peeked on my friend's phone and she was reading boyxboy fanfic. I wasn't interested at first, i was still reading shoujo romance at that time. Then I started to get curious and decided to read yaoi manga. I didn't remember exactly how I reacted at that time but one thing is clear, I didn't hate it bc I woul...... 2 reply
24-year-old Black American male. Writer in Philly.
I've been reading yaoi since I was in my early teens. While I'm recently become turned off by how rapey the genre is getting (it was always bad but seems to be getting worse to me), yaoi is in my blood and I expect to read it for many years to come (just maybe at smaller increments). 1 reply
I'm 18 y/o girl, will complete my high school in a few days. I don't know how i started reading yaoi it was just cus of the art I guess, but i find my self enjoying it nowadays and can't stop reading. lololol 1 reply
hello, I am 41 years old, female, caucasian, webdevelopper, Bordeaux.
my first yaoi was Junjo Romantica and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi (read them at the same time) and I thought it was very funny, the anime too. More than shojo or other. Now i read chinese bl novel as Grand Demonic and Beloved Enemy. And of course, i am fan of Addicted 1-2. Voilà 2 reply
Hi! I'm 25years old pansexual Latvian female ^^ I'm still studying software engineering. Oh, where to start. My first interaction with yaoi was when I was like 8-9years old, I was searching some stuff about yugioh and BAM!! saw my first smut guy&guy fanart (￣∇￣") So.... from there started my fujoshi era - first manga Junjou Romantica, first a...... reply
I actually started off around the age of a teenager, around 15 or 16 years old. A friend of mine, who is a hardcore fujoshi had actually been nagging me to come to her side of the world and read yaoi, but I kept denying it, until I somehow found this cute fluffy thing called shounen ai. It's been 2 years since then, and I took things slowly. As in,...... 1 reply
First anime was Naruto (in Fillipino dub) and Gakuen no Alice for the manga (when I finished the anime and wasn't satisfied and found the world of manga while going through the wikia) 2 reply
