>>19490438>yuri contains women, so it's for straight men'Verena Maser conducted a study of Japanese yuri fandom demographics between September and October 2011. This study, mainly oriented towards the Yuri Komyu! community and the social network Mixi, received a total of 1,352 valid responses. The study found that 52.4% of respondents were women, 46.1% were men and 1.6% did not identify with either gender'.
>yaoi contains men, so it's for gay menSuzuki notes that "demographic analyses of BL media are underdeveloped and thus much needed in yaoi/BL studies,"[188] but acknowledges that "the overwhelming majority of BL readers are women."[188] 80% of the yaoi audience in Thailand is female,[177] while the membership of Yaoi-Con, a now-defunct American yaoi convention, was 85% female.[189]
