yaoi
Speech parts
1. yaoi - Noun
2. Yaoi - Proper noun
Meaning
(pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more males in a homosexual relationship.
(anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more men.
Yaoi
A surname from Japanese.
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According to McLelland, the earliest officially translated English-language yaoi manga was printed in 2003, and as of 2006 there were about 130 English-translated works commercially available.
As of 1998, the term yaoi was considered "common knowledge to manga fans".
A survey of yaoi readers among patrons of a United States library found about one quarter of respondents were male; citation two online surveys found approximately ten percent of the broader Anglophone yaoi readership were male.
An extensive debate ensued, with yaoi fans and artists arguing that yaoi is entertainment for women, not education for gay men, and that yaoi characters are not meant to represent "real gay men."
Both yaoi and, to a lesser extent, yuri, are generally aimed at members of the opposite sex from the persons depicted.
By the late 1980s, the popularity of professionally published shōnen-ai was declining, and dōjinshi (self-published) yaoi was becoming more popular.