To those who stopped reading BL, why?

although i DO like reading bl, i havent read it in a couple months. the sheer amount of problematic shit that is normalized in these stories are abnormal and lowkey toxic.. ive started to become more aware of how harmful it is as a younger reader and has decided to take a break for awhile. i do love my fellow fujoshis, HOWEVER, most of the communit......   3 reply

I didn’t really stop reading BL but I did cut off yaoi cause I got pretty uncomfortable with the whole fetishisation thing. I still like sounen ai tho.   reply

When I was younger I usually just read everything without really caring, it was more about the experience, but I started seeing a regular thing in almost every BL, r*pe, they treat the subject way too romantically, the top could do whatever he wanted and then apologized and everything was ok, it made me just so uncomfortable and disgusted I stopped......   reply

I slowly stopped reading yaoi. The only reason I started was because I was sick of shojo but honestly yaoi isn't much better. First of all we've got the fetishizing fan base and toxic shit such as the cloudy consent. The second reason is mostly because it feels disrespectful to the lgbtq community. Its disturbing to see the fetishization/romantic......   reply

i stopped reading yaoi 7 months ago and well, there's a lot of reasons. first of all, i wasn't even reading the sex scenes because it was kinda disturbing me even at the first, i was reading them because i was wondering about how will they end up. but the more i read yaoi, the more disgusted i get. i'm not saying that i hate lgbt or smth like that,......   reply

I am not interested in BL and read Paramour because I promised the Authors Brothers Without A Tomorrow I would. I did not know they only wrote BL before I said that but because I said I would I did.   reply

I recently started using my account again after not touching it for a couple years so this question is perfect for me. I initially stopped reading it because the few stories I was reading took forever to get updated or just dipped in quality all together and I got fed up. When I tried to find actually decent bl mangas with a good plot, it was near......   1 reply

I stopped reading for like a few months because I was exploring other genres and was really into seinen and action,now I'm into isekai manhwas but Im starting to read yaoi again. It just gets boring reading the same genre everytime. So I switch often.   reply