Omgoshh, sure it's too much for your first bara, lol. Where did you gon MRM? :'D
This genre isn't meant for women anyway, though there are girls who do enjoy them apparently... There are every kind of gay stuffs, so hopefully we're not forced to like this one. Then there are these with prepubescent boys :/ Thanks now shota is forbidden in Japan.
Yaoi is usually used for works with smut and shonen ai for works without smut, both are gay fiction. So I don't know why people are complaining so much, they are deliberately reading yaoi and complaining about the smut. Make it make sense! If you don't want smut, filter for shonen ai, for fuck's sake.
Yaoi, the more explicit version of BL, is generally known to be a genre produced by women , which target is women, girls. The art style is often pretty, from shojo to semi-realistic. Shonen-ai is under the embrella of Boys Love, without smut. But of course the other gender, males, can read and like and vice-versa.
I'd say to be careful with the "gay fiction", because in BL and Yaoi even if it depicts homosexual relationships, this is hugely heteronormative with the terme Seme and Uke and that status will remain inchanged for +90% of BL stories.
While in bara and gay hentai, couples are more reversible.
Agree, IRL it's not easy to meet one. I knew a guy IRL who was bi and read BL just once, because he was already into mangas/japanim. I believe there are a lot more online.
On Mangago, Being-You, Jujucat etc are boys.
Even though a lot of BL are heteronormative, there are in (the newer) Manhwa series who have manly bottom (Shutline, Wet Sand, Under the gree Light) that can be attractive for the male audience, and this is refreshing for us who can be tired of the highly heteronormative stuff.
What I talked here was the shota meant for gay men, with prepubescent boys. Though tbh I don't know much either.
What I've seen throughout my searchs is there are few kinds of shota:
- The one derived from BL with shojo art like Yamato Nase's and CJ Michalski's: I believe these are read by the younger Fujoshis, for them to self-insert into these fantasies with a child or teen-looking Uke/protagonist. Public: hetero females.
- The shota cattered to gay men, with more explicit contents, for gay men to self-insert into these fictions(?) Authors like Hontoku Service Boy had published shotas, before switching to adult protagonists in their yaois/doujins because of the ban of cp in Japan. Public: gay males.
- shota in shojo: the contents aren't explicit and stories look innocent but the ML of these fictions for women are kids, teens, in any case much younger than the FL. Public: hetero females.
- shota in hentai: much younger male protagonist with older women, for the male audience to self-insert into these fictions with onee-san (big sister): hetero males.
So I'd say it's 50/50
Yeah. Infortunately...
But if the main source where these productions are made is banning cp then that's already a victory in itself, and better late than never.
I don't know if you know the reason for that ban. The ban of cp was following a crime, kidnapping, involving a kid and a pedophile owining cp. That matter had hurt greatly the otaku community because the pedo was also known as an otaku.
Is their word for hentai in BL yaoi term?
I think we need category for yaoi p*rn like hentai for yaoi, so people stop complaining about too much s*x with out story, people need to understand not everything have to have story, some just fap material