Talk:Boys' love
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:38, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
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Artwork of a seme and uke
- ... that yaoi is a portmanteau of a phrase that translates to "no climax, no point, no meaning," referencing how early works in the genre focused on sex to the exclusion of plot and character development? Source: "Pornography or Therapy? Japanese Girls Creating the Yaoi Phenomenon"
- ALT1:... that yaoi, a literary genre focused on male-male romance, originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of girls' comics? Source: "Loving the love of boys: Motives for consuming yaoi media"
- ALT2:... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship (pictured) are referred to as seme ("top") and uke ("bottom"), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang? Source: "Underage Sex and Romance in Japanese Homoerotic Manga and Anime"
- ALT3:... that any man can be the subject of a yaoi manga, including characters from literature, video games, and even real people? Source: "Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in Post-Millennial Japan"
- ALT4:... that in China, fans of BL – a male-male romance genre also known as yaoi – use the hashtag "socialist brotherhood" to avoid detection from state censors when discussing the genre? Source: SCMP
- Reviewed: Studio 2054
- Comment: Plenty of material to mine for hooks on this one, as one can imagine.
Improved to Good Article status by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:35, 5 January 2021 (UTC).
passed appropriately as a GA. The third hook has the wrong source, I assume you meant to use "Underage Sex and Romance in Japanese Homoerotic Manga and Anime" instead of "Boy's Love and Yaoi Revisited", which is used to cite something later in the paragraph. All the other hooks are fine. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 20:38, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Photograph in “send and uke” section
Hello,
I removed the photograph in the “Seme and Uke” subsection as it seemed inappropriate for Wikipedia, can anyone advise on this if possible? Uiscebearla (talk) 08:44, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
- @User:Uiscebearla I've reverted your edit. Wikipedia is WP:NOTCENSORED, which means that we don't remove images just because they seem "inappropriate". Thanks, Nil🥝 (talk) 10:03, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hello, Nil thanks for your reply. I should have clarified that my concerns were beyond it being merely “inappropriate” but about the age of the characters portrayed in the image.
- Thanks Uiscebearla (talk) 13:35, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
- Appreciate the clarification :)
- There's nothing to suggest their age is a concern, and the file has been used without issue since July 2011, including being promoted as a Featured picture on Commons. – Nil🥝 (talk) 00:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
