So I am a straight guy and I think yaoi is pretty alright. Yeah the intimate scenes make me uncomfortable sometimes, but it's alright considering this is only fiction and there are many Yaoi Manga/Manhwa/Manhuas that's all about drama. But I do majorly read it for the non-cliche storyline unlike many Shoujo's. (And yes I do read Shoujo. I ready eve...... 11 reply
I dont really remember lol
But i like to explore using advanced search, and when I filter something like romance and smut, many yaois would get filtered in and at some point I don't differentiate between yaoi or non yaoi anymore reply
you can read yaoi and whatever bl doujinshi you want. most yaoi is written by straight women anyways.
it’s perfectly fine as long as you don’t fetishize/objectify gay people in real life. like, speculating whether real people are gay or fitting gay couples into heteronormative/fetishized roles. for example: don’t ask couples who’s the man...... reply
I used to hate yaoi because I thought it's all about sex. But then when I try reading it, it actually have a pretty good plot (well, some) which makes me hooked. I actually learn a lot too, like the prejudices towards them, how the society perceived them, their struggles, things we can do to make them feel accepted and etc.
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i think it's important to differentiate between fiction and real life, and yaoi is definitely not real. I mean, those yaoi plots can mostly only happen in the fictional world, it would not do to compare it to real world.
I read yaoi since for me, it's just like shoujo but with same-sex couple.
Imo, as long as you're not doing any harm to anybody a...... reply
Honestly, I see this as nothing more than censorship, I just like stories plain and simple.So, Some of these stories have gay characters but not all stories are about lesbian or gay love. By saying that I shouldn't read gay stories just because *supposedly * I fetishize gay couple is fucking stupid beyond belief and I refuse to listen to these pe...... 1 reply
I am straight and I do read yaoi. I don’t find it odd. In the beginning, weren’t the target readers of yaoi straight females? I could be mistaken but that’s what I’ve heard. Also as long as you don’t think that real life works exactly the same way yaoi does and as long as you don’t fetishize gay couples I don’t think it’s bad. 2 reply
