Though gay men have specifically expressed their discontent with the creators of the comics, it’s overwhelmingly women who continue to read and enjoy the genre. Yaoi has for a long time been discouraged by gay men - the objects of the content - for being grossly unrealistic of how gay men are represented.
Over the years it developed into comics that show homoerotic relationships between men. Yaoi in the beginning was a sub-genre of the Shojo genre (girl’s comics) of Manga.
