>>21999654>>21999690Actually you both right, and wrong. Yaoi is indeed a genre aimed at women, it's written by women, for women, whereas Bara is usually written by gay men, for gay men, though some of my Japanese female friends like Bara artwork and stories.
Fujoshi, in Japan and the West, do like to see men having sex, but they are usually skinny, elegant pretty-boy types. There's usually some strange inner conflict of the main character ("I shouldn't feel this...!" "how could I love... a man...?" type things), and the dominate males in the yaoi-series tend to be over possessive and/or obsessive.
Yaoi = gay-men-comics written by women, for women.
Bara = gay-men-comics written by gay men, for gay men.
The term Bara actually comes from a gay mens magazine from decades ago called barazoku (Rose Group) which featured mostly masculine/muscular, gay men.
