Quick Summary:
BL/Yaoi mangas like this one make me feel like healthy sexy gay love is dead and that makes me sad
AYO I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR EVER. I really, really wish that there were more healthy, loving relationships in yaois, as they all seem to have some rapey element, or if not that, someone’s super toxic and gets “reformed” by the other in the relationship. If these were real couples, they would never work out. Anyways, if you want a recommendation for a really healthy relationship that has problems that stem from outside of the relationship, I recommend Dark Heaven by Juns
Alex better stop being so goddamn charming because the Taehwan hate train is looking reaaaaal good right now.
Hear me out, what if the main character in a bl/yaoi manga didn’t have to wait patiently for the main love interest to stop being toxic and didn’t have to spend the majority of their relationship showing their “love” through constant intense subservient sexual release? What if the main character just fell in love with someone hot and kind and loving and open because they’re hot, kind, loving, and open! It hurts to watch Yeonwoo fall down to his knees the second Taehwan opens his mouth and while they have to sneak around to hook up every other day, especially when I can’t help but imagine how joyfully and openly Alex would parade Yeonwoo around as his boyfriend, and he’d do it with pride. But sure, I guess convincing your sex partner to secretly where a vibrator while he’s going throughout his school day is better than a happy and healthy relationship lmfao.
I guess I just hate how yaoi mangas feel the need to sacrifice romance, consent, loving actions, etc. for the sake of making things !!!!!SUPER ULTRA SEXY!!!!!... Like imagine if we could get the best of both worlds with super attractive characters that openly like each other and are romantic and loving and aren’t tiptoeing around as if they’re committing the awful crime of being gay, while also thriving sexually. Also while skipping over the whole “the guy I have a crush on is a closeted evil asshole who I have to wait 40 chapters for him to develop as a character in a way that may actually not make him a horrible person to attempt to have a real healthy relationship with.” Conflict doesn’t have to come from the main characters being horrible people lmao, or from r*pe, blackmail, extortion, manipulation, kidnapping, drugging, and every other horrible toxic yaoi trope.