Question for girls that read bl

Are you asking specifically straight girls or all girls? I'll give you my response anyway as a Lesbian. I read BL because I like reading. I like stories. I don’t have a deep reason as to why I read it.   3 reply

lol I read through the other answers, and its clear that everyone has different reasons... So, first of all, I'd like to make it clear that the majority of us DO NOT fetishize gay men. It's ridiculous to think this way, because if anything we are fetishizing 2D characters or drawings??? (and honestly that harms no one) Most of us are probably too ......   2 reply

i just dont like seeing how women are portrayed in manga, whether it be straight or not. it comes off too girly or sexual or helpless both storywise and visually. not to say bl doesnt have any of those tropes (often times its very obvious that the uke is written like a female character and just drawn with a male body). i just have a weird repulsion......   4 reply

I'm straight and it's definitely easier to read a romance without comparing myself to the main characters. Don't get me wrong I read all romance but in bl I can enjoy a story and not involve myself in it at all.   1 reply

Straight romances suck most of the times, and straight smut is worse so I kinda crawled into Gl & BL and kinda stayed because it's friendlier to women, less childish while being wholesome, and the dudes actually express emotions in BL... I kinda read BL for the spicyness of the smut sometimes, but mostly I find the sex scenes too long so I skip th......   1 reply

The stories are good. BLs have floofy stories, dark stories, morally complex stories where characters hurt each other and there's no clear antagonist. The stories generally aren't really long which has turned me off of some shoujo (looking at you Skip Beat) and when they are long they're often well executed and the romantic tension remains taut (10......   1 reply

Well i'm bi, but i don't read yuri. Kinda strange because i like girls way more than guys, but there isn't any good yuri out there, in my opinion. I honestly dont know why i read yaoi, but i do know if it has a shit plot i wont read it or if it only has 20 some chapters i wont because im in it for the long run and the story line. The sex is just ki......   3 reply