I voted for "female and like both equally" despite the fact that I've read a lot more yaoi/shounen-ai than yuri/shoujo-ai.

I'm a heterosexual male and I prefer yuri.

That said, the reasons I avoid yaoi - though I won't deny that reading about male homosexuality isn't really my thing - are the same reasons I avoid a good majority of shoujo: I'm not enthusiastic about bishonen and how seme and uke relationships are portrayed. On that note I also tend to avoid female-oriented yuri, especially a one character is portrayed with excessive masculine qualities.

As for futanari... I don't like it, too. If 90% of yuri you encounter involves futa you might be searching at the wrong place. And yes, there is a good deal of girls' love stories that do not exist for the sole purpose of the graphic portrayal of sex.

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I'm straight male and like yuri romance, I have read a yaoi one shot by "mistake", hidden in a one shot collection. I liked it, it was sweet, but it helped this two guys didn't ever kiss or did it once. I have no interest in reading any more yaoi though.

I'm straight female and I like yuri more than yaoi

The wording for the choices weren't to my liking so I chose I'm female and I prefer neither. I don't wake up one day or suddenly feel like reading yaoi or yuri. l like to read mangas based on the stories and superficially, the art work. I don't see how the sexual orientation has much to do with it. However because most are more focused on being explicitly erotic and lack in development of the story, there are few in both categories that have held my interest storywise.

By the way, wasn't this poll done already? or maybe I'm thinking of another poll that also indicated if F/M and a preference in tags.

Yes, neither doesn't constitute homophobia. In fact, I find this poll isn't as worded very well but it has only done its best within the limits of a brief poll in order to ensure voting and to ensure that the distribution isn't so disbused. I chose neither because I don't read based on yaoi and yuri tags. I just read.

Also I feel like I've seen this poll before.

I like both yaoi and yuri, but I have read more yaoi because the yuri translations are far less than the yaoi translations.

It's written in the first post that this poll has already been done in a negative form (as in which one you don't like); in my opinion the sexual orientation has a lot to do with it, because as you have written most of these manga have an erotic focus, which ends up attracting more females for yaoi and more males for yuri.

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My current top 3:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Pandora Hearts
3-gatsu no Lion

I can't into the bara stuff at all. And the yaoi has to have crossdressing.

your picture and your comment have me cracking up laughing

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Fujoshis rule!

Exactly this, I'm a straight female and I've read only a few yaoi stories, mainly because the plot sounded interesting and the art looked pretty. I usually just flip through the 'sexy' bits quickly, because I don't really care for them. Hot guys are a big plus in any story though So yes, I prefer yaoi, because yuri lacks hot dudes.

If it doesn't have sex it's not yaoi though, it's shounen ai

Yaoi has not ceased to captivate me. But I found bara very disturbing and yuri just taste undesirably odd.. I suppose I am as common as any straight female who would fell for any adult hot guys.. Yaoi just multiply them.. ^^ I kept thinking of any heroine in my fave manga switched into a guy~ geez..

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Me and Manga, 'till death do us apart.. unless manga exist in the next life as well.. haha..

Male and I prefer neither.
My main point in reading mangas is finding a guy who'll be like my avatar and have a romance with a girl. I don't read something else (like yuri/yaoi or the girl not choosing this guy)

There are so many things that affect a person's preferences in reading. People's reasoning for liking certain genres differs vastly, far beyond their gender.