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[sulwen]

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*

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[chez-amanda.livejournal.com]

I thought those two were the same thing?

[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... :-)

[chez-amanda.livejournal.com]

Ohhh ok. So if it's in canon, it's yaoi; if not, it's slash, more or less.