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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.
yaoi itself was literally porn created by straight women for straight women. whether its fictional or not, yes yaoi and bl have its bad aspects. is it fetishizing gay people if you simply read it, no. but what is fetishizing is when people start comparing these characters to REAL gay men, go out and objectify them, and start actually obsessing over...... 2 reply
