Are Female Paraphilias Hiding in Plain Sight? Risqué Male–Male Erotica for Women in Sinophone and Anglophone Regions

A Madill, Y Zhao - Archives of sexual behavior, 2022 - Springer
Female-oriented male–male erotica is a genre of popular culture often know as Boys' Love
(BL), yaoi, and danmei. It is one of the largest by-and-for women sexual subcultures and a …

Nonnormative masculinity in danmei literature:'Maiden seme'and sajiao

A Wang - Moment Dergi, 2021 - dergipark.org.tr
Masculinity in contemporary China can be embodied by myriads of works featuring male-
male same-sex intimacy and eroticism, which fall into a genre dubbed as danmei 'addicted …

Engagement with female-oriented male-male erotica in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Fandom intensity, social outlook, and region

A Madill, Y Zhao - … journal of audience and reception studies, 2021 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Our aim is to provide robust information on the demographic in Mainland China and Hong
Kong who engage with female-oriented male-male erotica (aka, danmei or Boys' Love [BL]) …

A relational equality bias: Women's narrative engagement in reading Chinese BL

Y Zhou, T Liu, HY Yan, B Paul, Y Wang - international Journal of …, 2021 - ijoc.org
Boys' Love stories (BL) are a genre of male-male homosexual romance in China. The
readers of BL typically are heterosexual young women. BL readers usually argue that they …

Yaoi media consumption and travel motivation: Evidence from Filipino viewers of Thai boys' love series

JP Lacap - Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2023 - aseas.univie.ac.at
The Thai yaoi culture is getting a lot of attention in several parts of the world. Numerous Thai
boy's love (BL) series are a huge hit in Thailand and other countries. Despite the notable …

Contemporary danmei fiction and its similitudes with classical and yanqing literature

A Wang - Jentera: Jurnal Kajian Sastra, 2021 - ojs.badanbahasa.kemdikbud.go.id
Abstract Danmei, aka Boys Love, is a salient transgressive genre of Chinese Internet
literature. Since entering China's niche market in 1990s, the danmei subculture …

“I Can See Myself in Them, but They Are Not Me”: Asian Boys' Love (BL) Drama and Gay Male Viewers

C Jerome, AJ Ahmad Hadzmy, T Su Hie - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent years have witnessed significant growth in research on the phenomenon of Asian
Boys' Love (BL) dramas, a new entertainment genre that features male characters who …

Media Representation of Male Protagonists in Thai Boy Love Commercials: A Visual Discourse Analysis

Y Chen - Journal of Creative Communications, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The media portrayal of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)
community may impact public understanding and attitudes towards this community, which …

Socio-demographics, lifestyles, and consumption frequency of Thai 'Boys Love'series content: Initial evidence from Thailand

P Bunyavejchewin, K Tungkeunkunt… - Cogent Social …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Thai Boys Love (BL) television series, or Y-series (abbreviation of the
Japanese yaoi), have become increasingly popular domestically and internationally …

The shackles of gender still exist: Chinese women authors' consciousness in boys' love fiction

W Ma, Z Chen, Y Li, G Ju… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Boys' love (BL) fiction has flourished in China since the beginning of the twenty-first century.
It primarily focuses on the romance between men, while most authors and readers of BL …