I dunno, depends on the person ig? Is the plot good or not? Are you just reading it cause hot, sexy, man? I don't fucking know just be respectful, I literally don't care as long as it doesn't effect your moral system to the point you cannot distinguish fiction from reality, and right from wrong. Eyes on your own book. reply
Why is everyone bashing on hetero girls when there are plenty of bi girl and lesbian fujoshis out there?
Also, the genre was created for a female audience reply
I need no scientific reason. Haha. I guess it just really depends on the preferences of the person as well. Reading or watching yaoi just feels so satisfying for me. And I didn’t bother to ask myself why. Like, I just got hooked. reply
I'm sending this once again.
I was also interested so I looked it up. I started from the definition on Wikipedia and spiraled from there. Yaoi stands for "yama nashi ochi nashi imi nashi,” or “no climax, no ending, no meaning" [1]. It was made to be like that at first: just smutty and no plot. However, it really appealed to heterosexual girls ...... 1 reply
1) Yaoi (which is called Boy's Love or BL for short in Japan, and which I will refer to as BL for the rest of this answer) is a safe space for women.
If a woman is on a train seen reading explicit manga with heterosexual sex, she will be identified as easy or available by the men around her. (In the same way that men will interpret some kinds of c...... reply
Lmao, fujos WISH they had a "scientific reason" to hide behind.
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Bruh of course this shit's coming back... some of y'all really need to google "Scientific" 'cause clearly it doesn't mean what you think it does. 1 reply
Idk for me i just don't like the hetero mangas, cause majority of the time the girls are just so shittily written, always being the maiden in distress, and when in a romance... the fucking tropes. Ya know, the "I'm just an ordinary girl, but I have a crush on 2 guys! Kya! Who should I choose!?" I fucking hate it. I'd rather just take the girl outt...... reply
I think girls usually read yaoi/bl is because they don’t feel like apart of that story and it will make them more interesting and keep reading. I’m not a heterosexual but I think this work with everyone girls/ them. reply