1) Do you agree to allow your information to be used in this research?
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4) How did you first learn about yaoi and/or shounen-ai?
5) Do you enjoy (check all that apply)
6) In addition to yaoi and shounen-ai, do you also enjoy (check all that apply)
7) Do you ever write and/or draw your own yaoi and/or shounen-ai stories in some form?
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If you identify as female:
The following 8 statements are reasons women and girls have given for why they enjoy yaoi and/or shounen-ai. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each statement. (And no, I'm not discriminating against men or others; it's necessary to be gender specific to avoid pronoun chaos and also because known responses are different. Questions for men follow.)
9) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai is the best sexual fantasy there is; two guys are better than one, and there’s no prettier-than-me-girl getting in the way.
10) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to fantasize about romances and/or sexual relationships free from the socially constructed inequalities of gender roles.
11) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai is two fantasies for the price of one; it lets me fantasize about what it would be like to be a man having sex and/or being in love while still fantasizing having sex and/or being in love with a man.
12) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about frighteningly intense sexual, emotional relationships from a safe distance because there are no women involved.
13) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about same-sex relationships from a safe distance because there are no women involved.
14) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about non-vanilla (e.g. S&M;/B&D;, incest, much older or younger partners) sex or situations (e.g. anonymous or public sex, rape fantasies) from a safe distance because there are no women involved.
15) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me confront extremely painful sexual situations (e.g. child molestation or rape) from a safe distance because there are no women involved.
16) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about the more nurturing, sensitive male lover of my dreams.
17) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to think about issues involved in non-vanilla (e.g. public sex, S&M;/B&D;, non-consensual, incest, man-boy, etc.) in ways that do not immediately condemn them.
18) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to fantasize about more than one man at a time, often whole groups, and watch them as they play out interesting stories.
19) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai is hysterically funny because it is so totally unrealistic; I do not take it seriously at all, not as a sexual fantasy, a dream of a gentler male, or any of that.
If you identify as male:
The following 4 statements are reasons men and boys have given for why they enjoy yaoi and/or shounen-ai. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each statement.
20) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai provides an emotional intensity and level of romance that is not found in much gay literature
21) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai focuses on relationships, on the interaction between males as they bond, more so than most gay erotica.
22) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai is just erotic literature for me because I am a gay man and like to fantasize about men who are sexually and/or romantically involved
23) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to fantasize about romances and/or sexual relationships free from the socially constructed inequalities of gender roles.
24) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about younger males in sexual and/or romantic relationships.
25) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to think about issues involved in non-vanilla (e.g. public sex, S&M;/B&D;, non-consensual, incest, man-boy, etc.) in ways that do not immediately condemn them.
26) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai allows me to fantasize about more than one man at a time, often whole groups, and watch them as they play out interesting stories.
27) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai lets me fantasize about the more nurturing, sensitive male lover of my dreams.
28) Yaoi and/or shonen-ai is hysterically funny because it is so totally unrealistic; I do not take it seriously at all, not as a sexual fantasy, a dream of a gentler male, or any of that.
If you identify as something other than female or male, prefer not to say, or just didn't find your reason(s) listed, please add them here:
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