Comment on what is a word like yaoi or yuri, but for boy x girl?

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lystopad@mbin.twink.men ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this implies sexual (which yaoi and yuri usually not necesarily imply), and doesn't imply heterosexual

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yaoi and yuri at least used to denote explicit sex? Has that changed? Non-sexual was shounen ai and shoujo ai in Western fan parlance (Japanese terms are more varied).

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    • loppy@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Funnily enough, yaoi actually is an acronym, I think referring to stereotypical yaoi stories:

      Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi

      "No climax, no resolution, no meaning"

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep, basically “plot? what plot?” More evidence that it meant VERY nsfw things ;D

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    • lystopad@mbin.twink.men ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      nowodays they usually doesn't

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      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Haha, no. Those are hentai genres dude. Ecchi still counts.

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  • BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yaoi and yuri only refer to sexual, shōnen ai and shojō ai are what your looking for

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