Why yaoi is great

Well guess what Now I'm not saying they don't occasionally kiss and touch each other because they do and I would be lying if I said they didn't. But Yaoi is NOT gay porn so they are not sucking each others sticks if you know what mean. Not even in most manga do they do that. So now you can stop asking why girls are NOT disturbed by Yaoi. Yaoi couples are not much different from normal couples. They are people just like everybody else and the girls who watch Yaoi are mature enough to understand this.

Which is why they watch it without any problems such as thinking its gross. For those Yaoi girls you probably started to like it after watching sekai ichi hatsuki or junjou romantica they are just alike if thats how you spell it. That anime is the best Yaoi and is probably the reason why most girls became total Yaoi fans. I mean you don't just wake up in the morning and love Yaoi but thats just my opinion.

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Likes Comments However, the model is complemented with exogenous variables i. All participants were informed about the aim of the study and provided written consent before completing the questionnaire. The majority of participants In the present sample, the vast majority of participants The average age of participants at their first exposure to yaoi was The effect size was medium.

Factor loadings and descriptive statistics are presented in Table 2. Some reasons are listed below. Please indicate to what extent each of the following statements is characteristic of you by clicking on the appropriate response: 1 —very uncharacteristic of me, 2 —slightly characteristic of me, 3 —moderately characteristic of me, 4 —characteristic of me, 5 —very characteristic of me.

The column of CFA 1 represents factor loadings yielded in the preliminary CFA conducted on the original ten motive factors, whereas the column of CFA 2 represents factor loadings yielded in the investigation of the final, nine-factor structure of the YMCQ. In the bifactor model correlations among specific factors as well as between general and specific factors were fixed to zero.

ECV indicates the proportion of common variance explained by the target construct. H represents the proportion of variability in the construct explained by its own indicator variables. Therefore, nine motive factors were analyzed in the subsequent test of second-order and bi-factor models. In order to seek explanation for the high correlations among all motive factors, two higher-order factor models were also estimated: a second-order model with one second-order factor and a bi-factor model that specifies both a single common factor and nine specific factors.

In the second-order factor model, all primary factors loaded on one second-order factor. The factor loadings of primary factors ranged between 0. In addition to the second-order model, the impact of general attitude factor was estimated on each item. More specifically, the bi-factor measurement model allowed the indicators of motives to load on an overall primary factor i. As the general specification of a bi-factor model requires that the specific factors correlate neither with each other nor with the general factor [ 30 ], test of the bi-factor model was performed without allowing the covariance among specific factors.

Standardized factor loadings of this bi-factor model are presented in Table 2. On the specific factors, loadings were much more varied between 0. The bi-factor model is presented in Fig 1. Psychometric properties of the bi-factor model are presented in Table 2. Relevant reliability indices including explained common variance, omega, omega hierarchical, and H index of the general and specific factors were also estimated. Omega values ranging from 0. However, the omega hierarchical values were much smaller in specific factors ranging from 0.

Therefore, much of the variance of each specific score is explained largely by the general factor, and only moderately or slightly by the specific factors. Results of the measurement invariance analysis based on the bi-factor model are presented in Table 3. Baseline models for male and female participants indicated a good fit to the data. When parameters were constrained, changes in fit indices were observed.

Measurement invariance was also tested with regard to sexual orientation. The psychometric properties of this model are presented in Table 4. Age was a continuous variable. The present study investigated the motives behind yaoi media consumption. Although confirmatory factor analysis supported the proposed ten-factor model, two latent motives were merged into one single factor due to their extremely high correlation above 0.

Due to several highly correlated factors, two higher-order models were also tested: a second-order model with one second-order factor and a bi-factor model that specified both a general factor and nine specific factors. The second-order factor in the background of the original factors may indicate a general preference for the yaoi genre. More specifically, fans of this genre may tend to indicate high levels of motivation in general as a result of their dedication to the genre.

Both higher-order models had acceptable fit with the bi-factor model yielding the closest fit to the data. Therefore, the bi-factor structure was retained and used in subsequent analyses. The Yaoi Consumption Motives Questionnaire YCMQ with its nine motivational dimensions allows for the identification, description, and operationalization of a considerably comprehensive motivational profile of the yaoi genre consumer. Furthermore, the YCMQ demonstrated strong psychometric properties in terms of factor structure, reliability, and measurement invariance.

Furthermore, the application of a bi-factor model allowed for the estimation of the role of a general factor alongside with relevant specific factors that represent each motive dimension. The variance in scores of each motive factor is explained largely by a general motive factor, with the exception of some factors in which specific factors also had relevant contribution.

The general score of all items could be a reliable reflection of a general positive attitude towards this genre. Future research should pay attention to the implication of these findings when applying this scale for the assessment of a general positive attitude towards yaoi as well as each specific motive dimension related to this genre. This result is in line with previous studies that found men having higher motivation to seek sexual content on the Internet than women [ 38 , 39 ].

A cross-cultural study involving 25 European countries revealed that the highest perceived lesbian, gay and bisexual LGB acceptance was observed in Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden, whereas the lowest level of acceptance was reported in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Hungary was the 19 th most accepting country of the 25 European countries [ 40 ], reflecting a relatively low level of acceptance. It is possible that non-heterosexual viewers identify with yaoi characters more easily than heterosexuals and consume yaoi to resist or temporarily escape a heterosexist culture.

The Pure entertainment dimension suggests that yaoi serves a function consistent with that of other media; that is, the entertaining and relaxing aspects of media consumption also appeared in studies exploring the motives for using mass media e. This is somewhat surprising, given previous research in the U. Further research seems necessary to determine whether this may be a culturally specific difference. One possible explanation for this finding could be that younger yaoi consumers have higher levels of sensation-seeking compared to older consumers, as was proposed by Vettehen and Nuijten [ 43 ] in relation to motivations for viewing television news stories.

In summary, the present study provides a more nuanced picture of the motives underlying yaoi media consumption and offers a comprehensive, multidimensional instrument to assess them in a reliable way. However, this study has some limitations that should be considered for future research. Furthermore, this model has been developed primarily within a Hungarian and U.

Second, the convergent and divergent validity and test-retest reliability of the developed assessment instrument should also be examined in future research. Finally, due to the large variety of yaoi media forms e. However, the primary aim of the development of the YCMQ was to create an assessment instrument that assesses motives for consuming yaoi content in a wide range of related media.

Despite these limitations, the findings of present study support previous qualitative research on yaoi consumption and provide researchers with a basis for further quantitative research on yaoi media consumption motives. The Yaoi Consumption Motives Questionnaire YCMQ demonstrates strong psychometric properties and proves to be an adequate assessment instrument to assess the considerably full range of yaoi media consumption motives.

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. PLoS One. Published online Jun Francesca Chiesi, Editor. Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Received Sep 15; Accepted May This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Associated Data Data Availability Statement Data from this study are available upon request due to ethical restrictions. Abstract In recent years, yaoi has been increasingly popular among youth interested in Japanese media such as anime and manga. Introduction Japanese media e. Materials and methods Participants and procedure Data collection was carried out using an online survey focusing on sexual behaviors and pornography consumption habits.

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