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.
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:30 pm (UTC)That probably makes even less sense now... :-)