I'm just saying my thoughts. Girls tend to read and write romance more than guys you know. Yaoi is acceptable cause there is no girl involved so girls can keep their safe distance. Major yaoi readers are those who are tired oof reading shoujo. On the other hand, as girls are involved, girls often cannot accept yuri cause they often find it disturbing. I think guys should enjoy yuri more ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
There are 42 Yuri anime and 40 Yaoi anime - check it out on myanimelist. I think both are popular, it's just that Fujoshies and Fudanshies are more active and all pumped up iykwim compared to yuri fans who are mostly guys who watch my little pony (no offence to ya bronies out there) I'm a Yuri fan too but I don't go about proclaiming to the whole wide world how much I love it, whereas Yaoi fans actually do ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭ maybe they're really filled with gusto. Yaoi fans are like the protagonist of a shounen manga you know, bright bubbly personalities filled with energy and the 'akiraminaide' vibe. Whereas Yuri fans can also be like that if they want to but I guess they're more yin, so they're quite introverted. That's my 2 cents on the topic (=・ω・=)
as a striaght girl ...i prefer yaoi cause many hot guys in yaoi..
I agree with the fact that yaoi is just more popular than yuri because both are usually in the romance category (even with smut) which is popular to mostly straight girls rather than guys, but i also wish there was more yuri on the site that wasnt just weird smut. I have read good ones like "Hen" (which actually made me cry lol) and Tamen de Gushi (its so adorable and has no smut) But if you cant tell from my homepage I have read A LOT more BL than yuri. I wish i could find a yuri i love as much as 19 days (which Tamen de gushi is basically the yuri version of), let dai, or blue sky complex, which are all amazing and sweet as well as slow-paced and not too cheesy while still being pretty serious and cool (and not reliant on smut either). All the popular manhwas coming out that i know of are all BL or regular romance!
Another reason is that when girls are mushy and romantic its kinda normal, but with guys its more adorable and touching because guys usually arent like that to each other. So rather than one normally romantic girl and another hot yet sensitive and sincere guy its TWO hot and sensitive sincere guys longing for each other. Like girls are normally touchy whether friends or lovers so its not as "awwww". Idk thats kinda my own theory...
Anyways... i think that if you read yaoi and find yuri disgusting not in a "Im just not into that but whatever" way but in a "disgusting, why would anyone make anything like that that" I dont think that you should be reading yaoi (^-^ ;) and idt i have to say why...
Sorry for the preachy essay, its a bad habit, I hope you read it! Idk im just bored in class and wanted to contribute to a conversation. Have a nice day ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
Yaoi is hotter :)
Why on this site is more Yaoi manga than Yuri? Make story or draw people is easier or what? I didnt read any yaoi manga yet but i'm just curious if i'm not wrong even anime has more BL series than Yuri. Gay are more popular than lesbians in art. I hope i didnt offend any of you.