Everyone's a baby! I'm in my 40's, F, Taiwanese-born, got into yaoi at 16 in Taiwan, was obsessed for a few years, no good translations, went to one yaoi con, drifted away, work, family, and then Wham, friend told me to watch The Untamed. Realized BL / yaoi had kept going during this whole time and even expanded to other Asian countries. Typed in "...... 2 reply
16. Walking down a street in Asia and there was a book with cool art on the cover of a beautiful man. Picked it up, starting flipping through it, HOOKED. Zetsuai (technically shonen ai, but really, gateway yaoi). reply