Sorry, guys! During system maintenance, some functions like comment are unavailable.
Is reading BL bad? Does it fetishize gay men?
Does it really generally fetishize gay men? I thoroughly understand that a lot of BL material portray sex heavily especially on the Yaoi genre. A more typical position as to why reading BL is bad is because it fetishizes gay men. Does it really fetishize them? Is the fandom that toxic? (I have a vague idea about this, but what I find problematic is the shipping of irl people as well as the disregard on the normalization of rape and dubcon.) Hence, Is reading BL bad?
I read BL and have been invested of it since 2017. Now, I've been curious if this interest of mine in reading BL is really healthy. I acknowledge that like other stories in the market (whether it be gay or straight), it is still just a fiction. So, I am curious if reading BL is really fetishizing gay men and if people should stop reading and making them in general. thanks.
I like to seperate bl and yaoi so I’ll mainly be talking about yaoi in this:
I think yaoi by itself isn’t super fetishising besides from the fact that people use seme/uke top/bottom to refer to the characters and how more often than not the author/artist separated the two by making one hyper feminine and the other rather masculine (of course t...... 2 reply
