I feel like rape porn is way too normalized in general. You see a LOT of it in 3d porn and especially hentai. Yaoi has had a huge problem with rape since its inception (see Kaze to ki no uta, considered the first yaoi manga), though I think the western slash fanzine movement that started in the 60s didn't have that problem.
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That's another point I see all the time about yaoi - that the whole point is self inserting. In my experience talking to other fujos, that's very rare. The appeal to most women is that there is no one to self insert as. In a fictional hetero relationsip, a woman might feel pushed into identifying with the fictional woman, which takes away the vouyer/passive observer aspect that many women find attractive in yaoi.
I'd believe it was more rare if there wasn't such a strong focus on the dinamics of relationships compared to media that men consume featuring lesbians. It feels more like an inmersive roleplay than porn. The men in yaoi are also anything but masculine, i'd be like men watching lesbian porn but the lesbians are drawn like manly dudes only missing a penis.
Is that still popular? Anything that mangaka made had so much bad in it you can't even skip past the rape for the good stuff. Sekaiichi Hatsukoi was just too much. Had so much potential but alas...
Yeah that's a point I can't disagree with: Even in yaoi/slash where the characters are masculine, 99% of the time they do NOT have sex like gay men would (see yaoi hole). Western fandom usually is better at emulating actual gay sex, but it still does away with, for example, enemas to avoid getting doo doo on the top's dick. The bottom's rectum is usually magically empty, unless there's a scat kink angle.
The answer is it's non-politicized entertainment. It's also why Asian BL fans act respectable while the gaijin western fans are obnoxious.
First person taking this seriously. Thanks!
I have seen many farmers over the years admit to going to jail/prison, this isn't that bad.
Chicks who consume rape yaoi are no different from the ones who consume any kind of rape porn; it's their brains trying to normalize something they're afraid of going through, possibly having gone through it themselves, or they're incredibly sheltered and don't grasp the gravity of it beyond it being edgy and naughty. It's the easiest thing in the world to separate rape shit for women and rape shit for men; the women's version comes with the delusion of the assault and abuse somehow being romantic. The yaoi has the added variable of there not being a girl or woman involved in the assault, making it a lot less personally terrifying.
