Boys love / Yaoi is a genre about male on male romance that typically focuses on the more dramatized, intimate, and smut driven aspects of gay romance. However, this genre was created by women and had women in mind being its target audience. These relationships reinforce heteronormativity and often times misogyny with its dark romantic tropes as they display traditional gender roles on two men: the pretty like a girl uke (bottom) and the masculine manly seme (top).
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Bara is mlm (men loving men) for gay men, by gay men. Often times more vulgar, straight to the point, and fluid. It depicts more masculine and hairier men as it focuses on the issues that goes around the lgbt community as it defines what its like to be a man and still be openly sexual with other men without caring about the roles of being a top or bottom. The nature of gay men, how they define their sexuality, and the art of love making is found within bara. The best part is that it is all uncensored.
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Bara is mlm (men loving men) for gay men, by gay men. Often times more vulgar, straight to the point, and fluid. It depicts more masculine and hairier men as it focuses on the issues that goes around the lgbt community as it defines what its like to be a man and still be openly sexual with other men without caring about the roles of being a top or bottom. The nature of gay men, how they define their sexuality, and the art of love making is found within bara. The best part is that it is all uncensored.