Yaoi is weirdly interesting: it is mostly created by women for women. Limiting myself to gay manga for the moment, and the two genres listed above, I find Bara to be the most congenial: it is created for gay men, by gay men, in a variety of styles for a variety of tastes. It's seems that the more sexuality is repressed, the more it flourishes in underground and not-so-underground forms. And the kinds of manga that exist are amazingly varied, from straight to lesbian, to kiddie, to furry, and beyond. Japan, though a generally sexually repressed culture which has a strong taboo against homosexuality, has a flourishing and wide-spread culture of porn, both 3-D (i.e., real men) and 2-D (graphic or drawn). Yaoi and Bararefer to genres of Manga that are homoerotic in nature. Manga is Japanese word for comics, usually adult in nature.
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