Around 10 years ago, when I started reading bl, there was a plethora of manga, and barely any manhwa in the genre. And yes, about 80-85% of the manga i read had some form of rape. Given how conservative japanese society was back then, a lot of this was meant to show how much the aggressor was "so passionately in love that they were compelled to act......
Gotta look at the history of it. I'm not about to drop a crash course buuuut Yaoi was a genre specifically marketed to women in Japan, in fact the actual term Yaoi was credited to two women. And I think an important aspect that needs to be discussed is the fact that majority of us live in a deeply misogynistic and sexist world. And let me be clear ......
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