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The second half of Sensitive Pornograph is pretty much the most perfect thing I've ever seen. I would challenge anyone who's into slash but not into yaoi to watch that and not get turned on.

On a side note, I'm fucking pissed off right now. I mean, if boyfucking can't even break me out of my mood, that's pretty god-damned pissed off. *breaks things*

Date: 2008-08-13 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chez-amanda.livejournal.com
I thought those two were the same thing?

Date: 2008-08-13 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sulwen.livejournal.com
Actually no. They're often used interchangably in the west, but they describe different things. From what I remember, yaoi generally describes m/m relationships in canon, whereas slash is generally used when there is only a fanon relationship. For example, Death Note is not yaoi - but it's slashy. Sensitive Pornograph, which portrays explicit m/m sex, is yaoi - and would not really be decribed as slash. Adding further to the confusion is shonen-ai, which describes a non-explicit m/m canon relationship. And western media is usually not described as yaoi at all - Queer as Folk would be described as slash. These terms are all used extremely loosely and have different specific meanings depending on who you ask. I was referring specifically to pretty animated Asian boys fucking quite explicitly - what I would call hard yaoi.

That probably makes even less sense now... :-)

Date: 2008-08-13 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chez-amanda.livejournal.com
Ohhh ok. So if it's in canon, it's yaoi; if not, it's slash, more or less.

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