It generally features men more to the various tastes of gays: muscle, hairy, s&m, older-younger, chubs, etc. As I said, weird.īara, on the other hand, is made by and for gay men. Yes, in Japan, women like to read manga and novels where men court and have sex with other men! It's forms are similar to "romance novels" here in America, with a stronger man pursuing and seducing a weaker. Yaoi is weirdly interesting: it is mostly created by women for women. Limiting myself to gay manga for the moment, and the two genres listed above, I find Bara to be the most congenial: it is created for gay men, by gay men, in a variety of styles for a variety of tastes. It's seems that the more sexuality is repressed, the more it flourishes in underground and not-so-underground forms. And the kinds of manga that exist are amazingly varied, from straight to lesbian, to kiddie, to furry, and beyond. Japan, though a generally sexually repressed culture which has a strong taboo against homosexuality, has a flourishing and wide-spread culture of porn, both 3-D (i.e., real men) and 2-D (graphic or drawn). Yaoi and Bararefer to genres of Manga that are homoerotic in nature. Manga is Japanese word for comics, usually adult in nature.
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