What are you thinking asking a question like that at mangago, mother of all yaois, fudanshi, and fujoshi!? Obviously, yaoi has a rating of 1 billion while shoujo is at 1 or rarely 2.
Actually, it totally depends on mood. Yes, I am addicted to Yaoi but there are times when I miss the shoujo magic. Thanks to a handful shoujo mangaka who dare to break the shoujo stereotypes I still go back to shoujo, time to time. And I still keep in touch with josei regularly. Unlike shoujo, josei never gets boring, for me.
Yaoi is more sexually explicit & thus of course very appealing to a girl like me. But that is not the only reason why I like it. I also have my times when I crave for a pure fluffy shounen ai without sex. Just like that sometimes even explicit yaoi isn't enough for me & I find myself picking up something hardcore, pwp & porny to read OR even hentai sometimes.
Right now I do prefer yaoi. But If you ask me the same question while I am on my shoujo binge, the answer might be different.
Agreed (๑•ㅂ•)و✧. I don't really have a preference for one over the other. As long as the art, plot, & characters have interesting features, it doesn't matter whether it's shoujo or yaoi.
Though I will admit ~ as a female reader, it's easier to be judgmental of the heroines in shoujo manga because I project my own ideals unto their characters. As a result, I usually go for strong/strong-minded heroines. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
In the end, I'm more picky about which shoujo manga I take up, but I like yaoi & shoujo equally, & I prefer seinen overall.
Regardless of yaoi being more sexually explicit (and is therefore more awesome), which do you prefer reading? Yaoi or Shoujo?