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

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • lystopad@mbin.twink.men ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    nowodays they usually doesn't

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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