I am not interested in BL and read Paramour because I promised the Authors Brothers Without A Tomorrow I would. I did not know they only wrote BL before I said that but because I said I would I did. reply
Agree, in the wrong hands, yaoi can cause harm. But, young people are going to find it no matter what we do. And, of course, some kids are going to take what they see too the extreme. Yaoi is aiming for a mature audience that is mature enough to know better than to see every gay relationship the way they are depicted here. Most people I've seen, gr...... reply
Does nobody else thing that for every like shoujo/fantasy story the ALWAYS put strong female lead, like sometimes the mc is literally like a fragile timid person but they always always put strong female lead. 1 reply
I think you're mostly addressing appropriateness and taking issue with the Seme/Uke tropes.
Minors reading BL: No, it is totally normal to be interested in sex and human bodies from a young age. Reading erotica is the safest way to indulge in and express an interest in sex. The problems occur when it's a child's ONLY sex education. BL is a bad wa...... reply
Most yaoi has seriously shitty writing so I dunno what you were expecting.
To be honest, if authors can't be bothered to write a half-decent story then they really shouldn't be given the platform that comes with an audience, ESPECIALLY if they're going to write about marginalized groups of people. 1 reply
Read and support better stories. Everyone's tastes are different and so most of a genre often caters to the bare minimum of most people's tastes. And most people can do without fleshed out characters. I think knowing someone's favorite color doesn't denote an actual connection/deep knowledge of someone as a person. There are many stories where the ...... 1 reply
