I feel like women usually read yaoi to put themselves in the perspective of the bottom or go "omg gay sex is sooo hot". But I read it because I have a thing for submissive men and you can't really find that in straight media. (straight media is also dry as hell but that's beside the point) Am I the only one? bc I'm trying to find my people
I won't feel good being in the perspective of the uke. I don't know why but I don't like being the main character of something, that's why I don't play y/n and mc: type of games. I came by yaoi by accident and after getting into it I don't know why but I don't really like reading hetero romance anymore
No you're not! Hentai is pretty much the male equivalent of explicit Yaoi with the amount of female on female stuff that happens in almost every title regardless if it's tagged as Yuri or not. Most girls in Hentai are trope characters but you'll get a range from submissive to dominants (and a range of outright illegal stuff) but men's taste vary in that regard. I believe the same is true for women with Yaoi and there are loads pining for the "submissive uke".
I pretty much started off as completely gay but eventually came to terms (sorta) that I may be bisexual... I've always found feminine men attractive (I guess you'd call them "b*ta m*les" or "tw*nks" if you're an offensive a-hole) and I've even found a lot of men in drag very attractive (it's not a fetish, it's just some guys I find attractive are drag queens) but I never found the conventionally attractive male lead appealing at all... their scrawny small friend on the other hand :)
From the little amount of BL I've consumed, I'm almost always attracted to the bottom on the basis above. I know every bottom isn't smaller or submissive but most are and since I'm the dominant intimate type and anime men are very pretty... it just works out!
One of the reason that straight or bi females like yaoi genre is cause in most of the hetro romances in media men are shown to be dick, emotionally closed, sexist and not really nice to women. While in yaoi genre you can see that seme are most of the time nice, open about feeling, not a jerk dick face asshole to uke. As females would indentify themselves with uke the yaoi genre. It could also be interpreted as men can never treat women as equals but men but only men that is shown in yaoi genre. This is the reality girls, can't escape it. ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍
I think most if not all people who focus their attention on the bottoms are, like you and me, into the bottom and not wanting to be them. There's not THAT many readers who tunnel vision onto the tops. Guess straight media played itself with the overabundance of fearless macho knights and delicate damsels in distress because now im into jacked women who could strangle me with one arm and kind pretty guys who tend to flowers or some shit lmao
Can anyone recommend me some cute and fluffy bl manhwa? I've been reading a lot of serious yaoi and I need a bit of a break.
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/sign_language/?hx6M
http://www.mangago.zone/home/mangalist/706697/
you can try this list
CUTE AND FLUFFY / HEART-WARMING
list is a collection of:
• funny
• fluffy
• fluffy x funny
• healthy fluff
• healthy fluff x beautiful art
http://www.mangago.zone/home/mangalist/592711/
Follow the list to be updated. And if you liked the mangas/manhwas I included, please do recommend. Enjoy~ (人 •ᴗ•)