what does yaoi mean
Yaoi (properly [ja.o.i] , informally /jaÊi/), also known as Boys' Love (BL), is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically aimed at a female audience and usually created by female authors.he genre currently known as Boy's Love, BL, or yaoi derives from two sources. Female authors writing for shÅjo (girl's) manga magazines in the early 1970s published stories featuring platonic relationships between young boys, which were known as tanbi (aesthetic) or shÅnen ai (boy love).