And my gender matters..... why?

How so? Preferring neither doesn't mean you're homophobic.

Since most hentai/etc. is usually written for men it's not surprising to me that a larger percent of women prefer yaoi which is often written for women...women have less options

I am female at the moment and I prefer yuri, as long as it's not hentai.

Check the main topic posted by lambchopsil, then you know this poll was done a 1.5 years ago, but in the negative.

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I'm male and I prefer neither. But if you made me choose one or the other, it would be yuri. Actually, non-H yuri romance is kinda sweet. I watched an anime once, Kannazuki no Miko. Other than that, I have no experience with the genre, so I really prefer neither.

I'm a straight female and I adore yaoi. Out of my 1219 completed series, 841 are yaoi or shounen-ai. I see people claiming that they don't like yaoi/yuri because they're straight and they can't relate to the romance when it is comprised of two people of the same genre, which is a valid point.

For me, the allure of yaoi is that because I like males, I get to see two of them; twice the fun! Even though there are two males participating in a romantic act, I'm still able to project myself into the scene. I also think a big part of it is that I love reading the H scenes. There is little choice for the female demographic when it comes to straight sex. Shoujo/josei smut seems to be too vanilla for me while hentai tends to exploit the female body to the point of being a turn off to me; it's too clearly created for the male demographic. That's where yaoi comes in. I'm able enjoy the smutty scenes while appreciating the male body in the same way that people that like hentai are able to find enjoyment from that.

On the romance front, I tend to think that the tropes used in most shoujo manga are too overused and unexciting unlike yaoi for me. Add that to the excitement of a little eroticism and you've got me hooked! Just my two cents.

I'm not too big on yaoi because I can't stand the artwork and the very static seme and uke dynamic that almost never changes.

Also the fact I'm a heterosexual guy, but mostly the first reason.

To be fair I should have worded it differently but its a hard way to word anything in this topic without insulting someone else. Its more of the I don't like reading/watching boarderline (or sometimes out right) gay porn because I'm not in the target demographic. The majority of Yaoi/shonnen Ai stories are aimed at females just like most lesbian porn is aimed at males... I really dont want to go further down the rabbit hole here (no pun intended) so I'm going to leave it at that

because this poll would lose so much information otherwise. look at yaoi for example ~95% of men don't like yaoi however with gender taken out it would look like almost 40% of people like yaoi.

I really wonder if the close to half of men who said they prefer Yuri actually read much of it and I dont count hentai (although others might and this poll doesn't specify).

Straight ace female here who prefers yaoi -- though to be fair, I've never actually read any yuri/shoujo-ai series (though I have a couple on my wishlist I need to check out ). I'll be honest; I read yaoi almost solely for the smut (since they rarely have good plots/characters/romance/etc. anyway, and yaoi smut is basically the only sexual activity I'm interested in engaging in ). I read shounen-ai, het, and, once I get around to it, shoujo-ai for the story, characters, and romance. On the whole, I'm not a huge romance fan since a lot of the genre has been done to death and so, to me, comes across as boring, annoying, or a combination thereof. And unlike some others here, I never project myself onto a character or couple. I don't read romance to feel good about myself but rather to explore characters I'm interested in and their dynamic together. So if the character/s are reader stand-ins or just boring in general, I have very little interest in or patience for their romance. That being said, I have nothing against people who like what they like -- I just have very refined tastes in the genre.

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I'm male and I'm not overly fond of either. I have read a bit of both though, both non-H and H. Most just don't keep my interest; off the top of my head the only yaoi or yuri I really enjoyed was Strawberry Shake (unless something like Yuru Yuri counts for this). So I guess if I had to choose one it'd be yuri.

I think you make a really good point. The whole reason I got into yaoi was because there wasn't much shoujo smut. And what is there in that genre seems really degrading to women, e.g. lots of rape and abuse. While those topics come up in yaoi too, since there is a lot more yaoi it is easier to avoid the manga that has those things.

90 % of yuri that is funatari or hentai ? It might be true on hentai sites but most lf the series I read have very few graphic scenes... ( girl friends, honto no kanojo, sasame kikoto, citrus, himitsu no recipe,...)

I'm a male and I prefer yuri because it's soothing, sweet with likeable characters.

Some people here don't understand what there is to like about yuri but I don't understand what there ISN'T to like about it.

Neither.