Always surprised me that so many girls are into yaoi
Why do so many guys like lesbians?
Always surprised me that so many girls are into yaoi
Always surprised me that so many girls are into yaoi
Always surprised me that so many girls are into yaoi
The impression I have always had is that yaoi fandom eclipses yuri fandom. Women just don't have as many options as men.
Wiki also says that bara is created by and for gay men, while yaoi is created by and for women. I don't know how much truth there is to that statement since I don't follow any bara manga, but I do know that most yaoi manga is created by women. Or at least the ones that I read anyway.
The impression I have always had is that yaoi fandom eclipses yuri fandom. Women just don't have as many options as men.
The impression I have always had is that yaoi fandom eclipses yuri fandom. Women just don't have as many options as men.
Male Pregnancy.
Yes.Most published Yuri is created by women too, right?
Gay porn is still largely aimed at men. (If you are talking about live action.)Lesbian porn is a lot easier to find and acquire than gay porn until recently, so maybe women had to turn more towards fiction to get a gay male fix whereas dudes had a much bigger pool of content
edit: your ninja edit was pretty much my post :V
True, that in itself is going to impact the fervor.I think that's probably partly because of a kind of ghetto-ization, people who would appreciate yuri don't generally have to know that there's a term for it or join a fandom.
I only get into slash if it's realistic.
But honestly, we like men! Most of us! Hence, men doing it with other men is kinda hot. Just like for most guys, two girls doing it kinda hot.
That way it does sorta make sense, men watching two lesbians is mostly about the sex though. Don't think too many would be interested in an actual romantic story. (then again, I don't know what the yuri demographic looks like)
I, for instance, don't really like reading anything that doesn't have a plot. It just doesn't have as much payoff for me.
Well, in general, women like romance. We like sex, but we like it to be emotional as well. I, for instance, don't really like reading anything that doesn't have a plot. It just doesn't have as much payoff for me. But throw in a good plot, a heaping of UST, and some awesome sex? Amazing.
Ive encountered some good fanfics where characters just do that (naruto and sasuke), somehow still memorable, or maybe it was cause how the writer described it or ill never forget them doing it on the fire station and tattoo table.
Ive encountered some good fanfics where characters just do that (naruto and sasuke), somehow still memorable, or maybe it was cause how the writer described it or ill never forget them doing it on the fire station and tattoo table.
And its good for manga one shots at least.
No plot? Does she ever pay for that pizza? THE SUSPENSE!
Ah ok, I can see that. Especially when it's just in written form. There wouldn't be much to go by without a plotWell, in general, women like romance. We like sex, but we like it to be emotional as well. I, for instance, don't really like reading anything that doesn't have a plot. It just doesn't have as much payoff for me. But throw in a good plot, a heaping of UST, and some awesome sex? Amazing.
Porn actors that actually stay in character during a sex scene would be something I'd like to see as well. Usually it's all the same once the clothes are off.That's why I have to resort to fanfic to find good porn. I watch porn, but it's never that great me :/ Stuff looks painful, there's that obsession with fluids, and nothing makes sense! Even 'romantic' porn is kinda lame.
It's absolutely fascinating how different Yaoi and Bara are. I can't think of any other comparison that could show more clearly the difference in taste between men and women.
It's absolutely fascinating how different Yaoi and Bara are. I can't think of any other comparison that could show more clearly the difference in taste between men and women.
It's absolutely fascinating how different Yaoi and Bara are. I can't think of any other comparison that could show more clearly the difference in taste between men and women.
Yeah, I've read them, sure. But I never enjoy them as much as I enjoy the plotty ones. And even PWPs have romance in them.
Not really. My vast bara collection says otherwise.
Can't wait for Cumberbatch selfcest art once Star Trek is out.
Gross. I never understand the attraction fangirls have for Cuminherhatch.
In my experience with PWPs they tease you in the first chapter or so, but then 5 chapters later there's still no payoff. There's always too much plot or too much sex in adult fanfics, even they're labeled as such instead of just "romance". Its especially grating when the author focuses more on their own Mary-Sue than the actual characters.
Gross. I never understand the attraction fangirls have for Cuminherhatch.
W...T...F...
Sex for just the sake of sex gets boring after awhile to me. There's only so many ways you can describe sex before you've read it all.
Uhh it's not really yaoi, but it has a TON of themes and a lot of it is done in a very female-gaze style. You must have seen some of Minekura's art depicting the group bound together. I've seen art of them handcuffed to each other on a bed. That and the fact that they're all interconnected and destined to be with each other is pretty damn homoerotic/romantic, even though they'll never have sex with each other (that would be pretty damn out of character). They have pure relationships with each other, and that makes it sexy. Same reason why people like Maria-sama ga miteiru, I think.Do not you DARE put Saiyuki under any kind of yaoi. It has nothing to do with it.
Also, Goku is 500+ years old, and also.had a kind of a girlfriend for a while, however tragic that turned out to be
I don't really like actual yaoi. I like romantic themes, teasing and fanservice in comics/shows. For example, the third Evangelion movie made my fangirl meter run off the charts, and I love Clamp's Tokyo Babylon, but I wouldn't care to read porn featuring the characters. The lead-up is more interesting than the sex. And sex in yaoi comics is boring as fuck. Maybe because I lack a penis.
IFor example, the third Evangelion movie made my fangirl meter run off the charts, and I love Clamp's Tokyo Babylon, but I wouldn't care to read porn featuring the characters. The lead-up is more interesting than the sex. And sex in yaoi comics is boring as fuck. Maybe because I lack a penis.
I wonder if they'll ever finish X. There are too many CLAMP pairings I like for me to list.But but, Evangelion 3.0 didn't even havethat manyany shounen-ai undertone. I kept waiting and waiting and NOTHING HAPPENED! It's pretty tame, IMO, especially in comparison to the TV series. I mean all of those things look like what 2 friends normally do. Yeah, I'm definitely disappointed with the shounen-ai in Eva 3.0.
CLAMP....well, I only like Fuuma/Kamui pairing from X. The rest are not really interesting IMO. I wish they'd do a decent/good ending for Fuuma/Kamui. That's the only thing I want from them.
But kaworu and shinji is always interesting
As for Eva, maybe it's weaker on its own, but the 3rd movie was one long fangirl session for me. All of the piano duets.... And that scene wherewas rage-inducingly perfect. Not as striking as his fate in the series, but it was pretty great.Kaworu takes off Shinji's collar and puts it on himself
Shinji, what did you do to Kaworu's nose?
Extollere has no romance in his soul.
I'm getting confused as to which culture and media are being talked about, but plenty of men make fanfiction comics (parody doujinshi) in Japan.I think it's because women write fanfiction. A lot of women find two men together to be hot. Not as many find two women together to be hot.
If men wrote fanfiction, there'd be a lot more of the yuri type out there. Fandom wise anyhow.
Don't get me wrong, it really wasn't a good movie. =< For everything the reboot has done well, there is a long list of problems.I wish I am as happy as you are about it but to me Eva 3.0 is so disappointing in so many ways, including the shounen-ai part. I am so angry at how long they spend the film on stupid techno-babble or some gun/ship porn shot, neither of which I understand or care much. Meanwhile the plot and character development suffer big time.
Within Eva, nothing beats Eva 2.0 when it comes to shounen-ai fanservice:
I believe that Fiction is talking about western fandom (the kind that was centered around livejournal for a while). There are large communities, mostly women, that do shipping and writing challenges and stuff like that. I think Inception had a large following for a while, to name an example. Heck, I think 50 shades of gray falls under this (it was Twilight fanfiction).I'm getting confused as to which culture and media are being talked about, but plenty of men make fanfiction comics (parody doujinshi) in Japan.
Text fanfiction is common on the Japanese internet also, but compared with doujinshi it's more frequently done in anonymous form and given away for free, so it's harder to tell the gender of the writers (some franchises that are thought of as male-targeted still have female followings, like Sword Art Online and OreImo), but we can guess that for largely male-audience properties like Queen's Blade or Strike Witches that the fanfiction authors are probably mostly male.
It's may be worth noting that Japan also has an active men's erotic novel market, both traditional (NSFW) and light-novel style (NSFW), whereas I get the impression that's virtually non-existent in English these days (?).
This is how FurryGAF started.I just wanted to say that I love how every one of those "wtf is up with ____," threads becomes a thread for proponents/fans of ____ in the end.
I'm getting confused as to which culture and media are being talked about, but plenty of men make fanfiction comics (parody doujinshi) in Japan.
Text fanfiction is common on the Japanese internet also, but compared with doujinshi it's more frequently done in anonymous form and given away for free, so it's harder to tell the gender of the writers (some franchises that are thought of as male-targeted still have female followings, like Sword Art Online and OreImo), but we can guess that for largely male-audience properties like Queen's Blade or Strike Witches that the fanfiction authors are probably mostly male.
It's may be worth noting that Japan also has an active men's erotic novel market, both traditional (NSFW) and light-novel style (NSFW), whereas I get the impression that's virtually non-existent in English these days (?).
But kaworu and shinji is always interesting