I just wanted to talk about something I saw a tiktok about some bl recommendations and I went through the comments and someone commenting that if you read bls you should be ashamed of yourself that its disgusting for girls to read it and it got me thinking I don't read bls because I like seeing two guys fucking like seriously some bls are so interesting and so fun to read it's like reading a book I'm not going to be ashamed of liking something or stop liking it because I'll get cancelled I dont give a f tbh people should really learn to mind their own business if you dont like reading it that's fine but dont tell me what to do
I don't understand how it's a fetish. I've started reading bls because it's fucking interesting and I actually really love the lead couples in most cases. Like it's my dream to have a good ass love story, so how does that become a fetish??? And I literally hate shoujo manga. Without bl, idk what to read. Maybe I'll just re-read shounen mangas or manhwas with strong female/male leads. Most anime romance is literally shit too. Like that one anime where the girl is treated like shit and somehow they still end up together. And Ao Hard rude is literally shit too. Without bl, I don't have much to read. Maybe the only shoujo mangas I like is Kaichou wa maid-sama(though the girl is sometimes annoying but the dude is loyal af), and last game. If y'all have not read last game, I totally recommend it.
I agree! People need to mind their own business and let people enjoy what they enjoy as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.
Although, I can see what the commenter meant if they were referring to fujoshis fetizhing other (real) gay people/couples and ‘harassing’ them with uncomfortable comments due to being a big fan of BL/Yaoi.
I don’t really agree with that. They (fujoshis) should keep fiction and reality apart but it was uncalled from that tiktok commenter for shaming others interests.
I read yaoi/bl only for the plots. Seeing smuts and nsfw scenes in yaoi/bl is the same thing as reading nsfw scenes from a heterosexual-romance-orientated manga
Hi! You mentioned how it is a fetish.
There’s a difference between kinks and fetish. (In my opinion) it’s totally fine to have kinks such as choking, thighs, feets, yaoi/bl/gay pornography and etc. Whatever floats your boat! (as long you don’t hurt anyone)
According to Urban Dictionary, kink is about someone’s sexual taste/preference. If someone reads bl smuts to “get off” that’s fine! If someone prefer watching lesbian or gay pornography over straight, that’s okay too!
Fetish on the other hand, is a term to describe someone’s sexual obsession (in a way). For example, someone being really obsessed over yaoi sees a gay couple at their school so they literally stalk them and fantasies about them sexually. If they really are extreme, they might sexually harass them irl or online. However, if they were to just fantasize about them and keeping it only to themselves. I suppose that’s fine even if it (my opinion) wrong to fetishize the real couple.
There’s a line between fiction and reality. Only having a preference for gay pornography is fine but don’t fetishize real lgbt people and their relationships. What if people were discussing about how they were getting off on how hot Justin Bieber and Hailey’s sexual life is. To the point of photoshopping them naked or something. Imagine if I used a normal couple (that isn’t celebrities) as an example. That would have been weird, right?
Hope this helped! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
this shit called me lonely in 20 different languages