>>82819548
true, homophobia plays a big part in this, expecially in the Western world, and it also plays a big part into idealizing gay love as filthy rather than as something innocent. Maybe that's why, fujo gaze aside, Jap BL feels so pure and tender compared to our gay media landscape: despite its conservative culture, very much alive to this day, Asia used to be more nonchalant on those topics.

To think Plato said that the highest form of eros was only availabe to homosexuals...sad we're still so unevolved after thousands of years from the ancient greeks