Actually I have a straight male best friend who has a girlfriend and he enjoys reading shouen ai, he doesn't read yaoi though but he enjoys reading shouen ai since he thinks that most shouen ai are more romantic in his opinion, and he's a big romance person. That's actually how we became friends, I was walking past him and saw him scrolling on his ...... 1 reply
I can't speak for men so i didn't want to comment but since it's not straight men commenting here anyway I wanna drop my opinion.
Of course????
I don't think it's common, very few (straight) men feel comfortable enough in their masculinity and sexuality to enjoy love stories regardless of the character's gender. And men read romance way less anyway...... 2 reply
I've met cishet men that do but my toxic trait is thinking they're a little gay for doing so. They're at least comfortable enough with themselves to read BL so a win is a win reply
I'm straight(I at least think so) and I read a few shounen ai cause either I think it's cute or I'm curious.. I haven't committed in reading long yaoi stories so far cause I always ended up dropping it if I got too uncomfortable. reply
I don’t know….cause I’m not a dude, but if I was a dude and I was straight and I read some of these BLs……..I probably wouldn’t be straight anymore….some of this shit is fucking HOTTTT ASS FUCK and the romance it’s freaking amazing… that’s just my view on it 2 reply