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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.
I think the danger lies in people not recognizing or acknowledging the fact that yaoi is ultimately porn. I've had people on this very site tell me that it is art or a story when I argued that yaoi is porn and that all porn fetishizes sex, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Other people acknowledged that it is porn but they wished the stor...... 1 reply
