Do you ever regret it?

[milkymosaic]

*thinks* I suppose at one time I may have hid it, may have felt a little guilt in it. But you know what? My uncle had a kidney stone too. Everything passes in time. xd Seriously, though, after my life I've learned not to listen to people who ridicule you for who you are. I don't care what people think (negatively) about me any more. My friends all know I like it. I post it on my locker at school. It's mostly a matter of being comfortable with who you are and understanding that there will always be people trying to put you down. You just gotta keep building yourself up. I'm really not afraid of critism anymore. I have a girlfriend and I proudly walk down the halls of my school holding her hand. Mostly my point is that what you like is your decision and that no one should be able to tell you you're not allowed to like it. I got over that kind of stuff long ago.  

[[MasterAlucard]]

I could never regret getting into Yaoi!
This obsession makes me who I am.
Although my non-stop rantings on my favorite couples and Yaoi in general have been called an "Unhealthy Obsession"
I could never regret loving Yaoi!
I absolutely love the faces people make when I shout out "Gay Porn!" out of nowhere.
Usually when my friends are trying to take my Yaoi maga or something.
But hey,everyone has their own opinions.  

[Anni-Neko]

I love yaoi, that I won't lie to myself. I feel a sense of open-minded-ness (is that a word) sweatdrop
However, I won't tell anyone that I like it unless I know they like it too and they won't scream to the world.
At first, I thought it was bad too, but then I got into it. I never regret getting into it, but I don't think it's something the world should know (unless they're very accepting people).  

[Katastrophic_Kate]

I find it hard to feel guilty for liking yaoi when there are so many guys out there that flaunt their love of lesbian porn. Plus my boyfriend is totally okay with it so whatever.  

[-Saishi no Chishio-]

I love yaoi, and I don't see anything wrong with it. Sure, it's guysxguys, but we can do what we want, no? I don't think any of my friends know aboutit though O_o I don't read doujinshi, so no one ever finds out. My parents don't even know. Either way, it's okay to like yaoi. Its your parents fault if they can't accept that.  

[Genica Pussywillow]

[I'm not really willingto tell anyone, because it's none of their buisness]
[But, it's just an interest, and I'm not proud and I don't regret it, either]  

[CaramelStripes111]

I kind of regret it since it goes against my religion (Catholic) and that it's made me question my sexuality (I'm either straight or bi, now). I have to hide it from my very catholic dad. But when I think about it, if it wasn't for coming across shonenai, I wouldn't have found my love for writing stories/fanfiction and literature, now giving me a career to look for (before I had no clue what to be). Not to mention that thanks to it, I know the world better and know that everyone--straights and gays--deserve their own freedom: few years ago, I was all "what's homosexuality?"

In other words, shonenai helped me a lot--and even if I somewhat regret my choice, I wouldn't be in this guild if it wasn't for it.

Besides, most of my female friends are crazy for it and my male friends are okay with it (they prefer shoujoai/yuri), so it's all good. ^^  

[Heero-Yuy-Wing]

well, for a long time i felt ashamed of it because
1. I was male
2. I was always told that men and women went together, that is what was normal in the world.
3. I liked it more then i should've

So i hide for a long time, until i met my gay friends who totally accepted me for who i was... hell my best friend is... well i don't know if she's a lesbian or just a women with high standards, but she's a big fangirl who shares her yaoi mangas with me. Every week we hang out and usually we're looking up yaoi mangas and animes to look at, though we also watch regular anime too, we're not to the extreme, but she has no problem with what people think... though if her mom found her little collection, she may freak just because it's rated for 18+ and she was only 17 when she bought it, her birthday isn't until october.  

[Kitty Pimp]

I am not ashamed of reading or liking yaoi. I read my Off Beat, Legal Drug adn Gravitation proudly in class for all to see. If u dont like yaoi then u can kiss my butt xd  

[duskydawn]

My only regret is living in a place where the bookstores have shite manga sections.  

[User_2629207]

duskydawn

My only regret is living in a place where the bookstores have shite manga sections.

~ heart heart heart ~

Sounds like we're in the same situation.
I've heard of a 3-story Borders with a giant yaoi section, but it's on the other side of town crying

~ heart heart heart ~

 

[Lenre Li]

Lenre Li

<.<; I don't regret it... when my mum found my YELLOW vol. 1 I just nonchalantly told her it was 2 guys, and they seemed okay with it, everyone else I tell are either a yaoi fangirl/fanboy themselves, are people who I trust with everything, or I just use it for shock value...

Hmm, I don't really regret, it keeps me in this world, on the borderline of dead... so why should I regret when I could be six feet under by my own doings?

Err... sweatdrop

Actually...

I still never regret it, it's the way I am. A part of me... >.< Besides, if I never got into yaoi/shounen-ai/slash/femmeslash/whathaveyou when I was 10/11, I'd've gotten into it a bit later in life. o.o;

It's just a thing that shapes your opinions, and let's you... express yourself? With all the drawing, writing, literature...

And we all know heterosexual love get's a bit stale after a while... well, unless it's true love, but all the het romances and hentai is... odd. o.O; Especially since you're so used to two guys or two girls... *shrugs*

And like I said before, if I never discovered the wonders of this wonderful genre, I would be oh-so-depressed. And I never would've discovered I was bi. 4laugh  

[Lady Sang]

I'm not ashamed. It's not something I'd go around saying to everyone, but I'm actually proud to be open-minded to stuff like this. Besides, most of my group of friends is into it too so I have people to talk about it to. ^^  

[Mika_Clari]

I have no regrets in my choice. Yaoi and Bl makes me happy. I might not have been the same person without it. I might have gone insane without it(while some would care to argue that). It gives me something to do, to believe in romance again. Haha. I'm such a cheeseball.
I mean, I'm still a semi-closet pervert when it comes to this stuff but it's to protect the mind of many people in my life, really!! *looks around suspiciously*
Actually, it helped develop me as a writer. If I don't write, I go insane and one of the first few things that I wrote in my diary when I was still in 7th grade, age 12 (heh heh) was how I like shonen-ai. And I only got this way because of my sister who was looking at BL manga on a site and was interested. Let's say it escalated from there. In return, I accidentally introduced her to the wonders of Youtube and she got hooked on DongBangShinKi( a Korean male vocal group for those who do not know). Haha. I'm happy now. smile  

[Edward Cullen -Gabriel-]

This is a good topic. It's kind of sensitive in a way, but I like it.
To me, it seems natural for girls to enjoy yaoi. Hell, I had a boy friend at school, and my friend (a girl) watched us closely to see if we'd every kiss. I don't see what's wrong with a girl liking yaoi or having to hide it.
Although it's quite harder to be a male reading yaoi, hiding it from parents/friends, or caught reading it in class or something. Just teh other day, I was approached by a guy friend, asking "So, do you like yaoi?" Naturally, I said, "Ew, no! That s**t's sick!" But I'm obsessed with yaoi immensely. I think anyone should be allowed to read it without discrminitation. It's a genre! Hell! That's a downright stupid thing to discriminate over. Some yaoi mangas/novels don't even have actual gay actions! I just read one called Invisible Boy, and no guys every kissed or admitted to liking one another. IT was more like Big bro/little bo type stuff. So there!

(Although, correct. You cannot understand the ideals of homosexuality from yaoi. And I know this is stupid, but I kindasorta caught a negative vibe from the first post about admitting to homosexuality...<_< ohwell~ ^_^)