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I am a woman who read a lot of BL. I am also a lesbian. Yes, there is a lot of smutty yaoi; there is also a lot of yaois without a single-sex scene. The conclusion that yaoi is gay porn misses a lot of great stories. I have met people in the LGBT community (both men and women) who have used BL stories to cope with coming out and searching for a c......   2 reply

I live in Texas. North Texas alone is expected to see 1000-3000 deaths by Coronavirus in the next two weeks. Not only does it look like they're going to shut everything down again, but it doesn't look like the governments are going to pay for anybody's lost jobs/wages. In the US, there are two political parties. One political party wants everythin......   reply

I told my family after I had dated someone for a year. My mom knew I was dating her but waited for me to tell her. It was not immediately accepting, though I think my family was more worried about me marrying at a young age (which I was not considering at all) than being gay. To this day, my father believes that gay marriages are more likely to......   reply

My mother reads yaoi every now and then. She read a lot of the old mainstream ones like Love Mode and JunJou Romantica, and I tell her if I have read a good one recently. We both keep the existence of yaoi from my dad.   16 reply

As weird as this is, I am a lesbian who reads yaoi because the characters have no interest in me, yaoi is most of the time written by women for women, and yaoi depending on what you read often does have highly emotional and interesting plots. I have found if I want to read a fictional story with a nuanced discussion about abuse or prostitution, I b......   reply