Maybe I wasn't clear.
I'm not talking about going on a public bus with hardcore yaoi book on hand when i said that yaoi should be hided.
I mean about talking to your friends/close people about your yaoi tendency. and there are many level of friends, starting from the lifetime best friend to instant convenient friendship.

I think it's fine to love yaoi as much as you like. as long as nobody find out!



woow lucky.....
but I don't think that's normal.

Long story is long

Hmm let see.... I hide my Interests on yuri because don't want any one think i'm gay which i'm not. A other thing is that i'm very tomboyish and I was talk about how I hate girlish stuff. Long time ago when I was 13 to 18 I was big fan of Yuri, and I had old computer that is window 98 dial-up aol that used be in living room until I moved it to my room. When the computer was living room I all was look up yuri stuff and even read kannazuki no miko manga at night. One time my brother's friend was living room were I shutting down the computer he saw my wallpaper of Kannazuki no miko, he told my brother this " Your sister seem to like yuri" I think he said that not sure but he did said Yuri. He also told me he own Kannazuki no miko dvds and I want to see the dvd and watch it. Through I never get to watch it.
I remember I watched Strawberry Panic and Kannazuki no miko in my mom's room at night because my old computer was bitch and will not let me watched it. I think she saw me watching those anime but never said any thing, good thing is she never saw any yuri scene, so thanks god.
Now today I have new computer that I can watch or read any thing with worried who behine my back.

So over years I got over with yuri after I watched Kyou kara maou in summer 2008. Its used aired on Iatv around 7pm I think she saw me couple time watching the show but never said any thing to me. When the manga come out to American I ask her if can buy some book on amazon ( I said book because she doesn't know what manga mean). She ok with it and buys all it. I have all the vols up to vol 7. This year on my b-day ask her about other book that's not KKM, she give me her card and I ask my sister to order it (I'm not good at buy things on the internet). Its was Off*beat, my mom never saw the manga. But if she'd saw it she won't care much. Honestly I care less if she saw it, since its not even yaoi but more hints of BL. I'm bit open to BL than Yuri in my family- I have 2 sister and mom in the house, my brother move out. Through I never told them about me liking BL but I give of vibes or hints that I like it. lol i'm giving them clues XD
I watched stuff on tv that sound very bromance yet my family doesn't know what going on in the show lol.
I'd like tell my mom one day that I i'm sucker for BL. Yet I get dreams that my mom find out I like BL and she was very mad at me.
One thing I know is that My sister's friend's parent are very anti-gay. I only have 2 RL friends and told 1 that I like BL and Yuri, he ok with it, and other one planning to tell her but she and I are long talking to each other.

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Omg I'm sorry if this long + bad english. In short ways is that I never got caught in bad way.

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wah! i got caught 2 times by my parents! not good at all! the first one was my mom.
so i was reading okane ga nai and then my mom came in and saw me reading it. i was really scared and she just looked at me as if i was weird and that she couldn't believe her child was doing that. i tried to passed it off by telling her that "the page just popped up. i don't read these things. it always does that."

then the 2nd time was with my dad. so i was looking up some yaoi manga to read then all of the sudden the power shut down. you know how when the computer turns back on the page you were on is there. so my dad turned on the computer and signed in on my account. he clicked the internet and there was a picture of two naked boys. he called me into the room and i was like "i got busted! omg what do i do?" i was really scared cuz he is really strict. he asked me what is this and i quickly said "i don't know. i don't read those stuff. i really don't." but i think he knows that i'm lying. i'm really scared what if they take the computer away from me? nooooo that would be so cruel.
i usually hide these stuff from them and read it in private but now they find out. now its become awkward to talk around them.

I told my family that I like yaoi except my Dad. My mom was okay with that. She just asked why do I like yaoi. But I don't know how my Dad would react if I told him about yaoi.Most of my friends know about my love for yaoi. Yeah I'm pretty open about this.

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Some of the people I know are hardcore Christians who're absolutely fanatic. So no, I'll never tell these people.

I also discovered a friend of mine actually reads yaoi. So, we do chat about it a bit.

I've NEVER been caught reading BL or yuri or ero-guro and so on, btw. Some people did see me reading manga on the pc but well... that's about it.

I remember my first experience with shounen ai/yaoi was loveless which I bought from a shop not knowing it was guy on guy. I can't remember my initial impression - think I put it down in shock, back then I didn't think there was such a thing as yaoi - but I definitely got into it after that.

Anyways, I did randomly bring up the topic myself with my mum once. I was casually explaining the different genres of manga you could get and got onto yaoi and mentioned that I'd 'tried' it not wanting her to know I was super into it like I am.
Her response was to ask me if I was a lesbian.
Well, I spose if you say you read a gay manga, what's a person to think? Lol.
It was amusing, and slightly awkward, I jolly well hope she's forgotten about it though. It was a mistake to say anything at all

However, if I ever am caught reading it at some point I believe I will attempt to pass it off as a straight manga. It's pretty simple, just say that the other one is a woman who is particularly masculine or is gender bending or something.

I've never been caught reading yaoi before. However, more embarrassingly, I was caught looking at porn before. I was pretty young at the time, like probably 12 or 13. Luckily it was my older sister who caught me. She was just like, oh I understand that you're just curious about what sex is. She was pretty cool about it and didn't tell our parents.

Anyways, its funny that this subject about getting caught reading yaoi was started because someone got caught reading After School Nightmare. It's not even BL because the main character is intersexual. Just like MaZzAx said, you probably could explain it away as being a gender bender.

I've never been caught...or been aware of being caught. I've come close...like just a minute ago when my aunt knocked on the door and I scrambled to click out of the site I was on . "Oh hey...I'm just uh...looking at my desktop and all..." I honestly can't figure out the best excuse. I mean, do I go with:

"Hey, we all do it..."
"I'm studying for art. We're working on anatomy..."
Perhaps, just stare and slowly click out of the website.
Gah! I've come too close to being caught many of times. I think I should just say to them at dinner one night. "There's something I need to tell you. I read gay porn! There I said it!"

Well...I'm going to proceed to find a decent manga to read. I'll be back if/when I get caught

back then in high school I tried to tell my best friend about yaoi but I couldn't. It looked like the words stuck on my throat so I gave up telling her. But then she knew yaoi from her other friend which I dunno who since we study in different colleges. Now we became best friends in yaoi world and life We share mangas, animes and infos and importantly we are fangirling together. I regret it's not me who introduce yaoi to her.

I only open about yaoi to my best friend. But one of my normal straight college friend caught me loving yaoi, my heart jumped from the ribs at that time. I tried to slip away explaining this obsession of mine with every ways possible. After that, she never mention about that again

Now the awkward moment when my old friend which I knew never had interest in yaoi, ask me about yaoi anime and manga yesterday

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My friends know I read yaoi, but they know I'm not that crazy about it, drawing fanart, imagining two real life boys kissing, talking about it all the time etc. Well, when they ask me why I like it, it's very simple... "Why I shouldn't like it?", not every yaoi is bad, has rape, horrible characters and so on, over the years I found beautiful stories involving a homosexual relationship. Same goes for yuri, they know I like it and everytime they ask me if I like girls, I say: "I never dated one, but if one day I fall in love with a girl, I'm okay with it". Then, since I'm very open about it, all of them respect me for what I am.

My parents are another story. They don't know I read it and I don't plan to tell them, because they aren't so open about it... Sigh. But they come to my room everytime I'm reading it and now I'm too lazy to change tabs, to erase the pages I visit, hide yaoi inside of other documents, close all of it when I go to some other place in the house and left the computer on, anyway, too lazy to care about it... So if one day they found out (if they don't know already), I would sit down and talk with them. They know I approve any kind of love, so explain why I read won't be so hard. Also, my best friend is gay and they respect him too, so I think they try to be against it (because of religion), but they know deep down that everything is very simple if you accept it (because in the end, is two humans in love and that's it). Annnnnnnnndd they know this never interfered in my whole life, so it's kinda pointless to fight about it.

tl;dr I'm very open with my friends, not open with my parents and sometimes I try to hide it if I met another fujoshi who is extremely crazy about it/only talks about it/is really crazy in love with 2d characters/tries to make boys who hate it read it...

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Nobody knows I read yaoi, yuri or even ecchi. I did pass on After Chool Nightmare to my sister, but I wouldn't consider it shounen-ai, as the character is not entirely male.
Anyway, if someone finds out, they'll probably think I'm gay. Best they don't realise...

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well, I only read yaoi (not yuri) and NO ONE knows, but I dont think the world would end if my family found out (I'm 18 already, I just hope no one finds out that I started reading this like 4 years ago^^).

with my friends/school it's different. we have one girl (though admittedly one of the loser/weirdo crowd) who reads (mostly yuri, but some yaoi) veeeery openly. and I mean VERY openly. she reads it in class and just puts the books down on her table for everyone to see. (I'm kinda amazed at her nonchalence and confidence, a lot of ppl semi openly make fun of her and she still does what she likes. gotta admire her for that. but that also puts that weirdo/uncool stamp on manga and now my friends look at me weird when I tell them about it or anime.....too bad :/ so I pretty much keep quiet about it.

although it's a real shame, because when I'm not horny I also read real epic stuff like fullmetal alchemist, hunter x hunter, tripeace, d.gray-man, dengeki daisy..... I just KNOW that they would like it, but it's got that bad reputation so they would never try it.....

I was caught by my husband lol. The yaoi that I was reading had a long haired Uke in it so I tried to brush it off as just a sex scene in a regular smut manga. He says "then why does the girl have balls." After that I couldn't really say anything. He just laughed and now he knows and is okay with the fact that I read it.

The only ones in my family that knows I read it is my mom and my little brother. If my dad or grandparents knew, it would be horrible. They would most likely try to perform an exorcism lol.

ahahaha oh god, i know exactly how you feel about not wanting your family or friends to know about your odd obsession with yaoi xD i mean my innocence is gone if they find out so luckily no one knows (¬‿¬) but if i see that one of my friends is interested in yaoi/yuri i open up to them about it~ fangirls unite >//<

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lol, guess he got more than a glimpse huh? If I had a significant other right now, I don't think I'd be afraid to let him know that I read yaoi/slash. Men watch porn all the time and they're pretty open about it, I don't see why we should have to be ashamed about it. Well, okay, the homosexual factor might make it a little strange for others, but I think it's okay to let significant others know

As for me, no one I know personally knows I read yaoi, but then again I've only started reading the genre fairly recently (a couple of months ago). I don't think I'd be afraid to let family members know if they asked, but it's not something I'd flaunt either. Yaoi is very sexually oriented, so it's not something I'd read or leave out in public anyway. It's the same with any other material that is heavy on sexual content like porn or trashy romance novels.

I think it'd be easier to admit that I read yaoi if most of the people I knew were familiar with manga. If I had family and friends that read manga, then I'd be 100 percent okay letting them know I love yaoi. It just seems that it's more socially acceptable in Japan to be a fujoshi than it would be in other places. In Japan, you're probably just another fujoshi, in the states, the reaction would be - you're into what?!?

So much about yaoi specifically is tied in with Japanese culture (obviously). If you read it and you're not familiar with the popular tropes, trends and brand of humor in manga, then it can come off more than strange. Couple that with the added sexual content of gay love and you have a combination that most people [outside of Japan and the manga/anime reading/watching community] just wouldn't understand or accept easily.