frustrating people?

While I agree that people who aren't fans should butt out, I think u may need to research the genre a little more. Yes, yaoi started out as pointless gay-ish love making. And I myself do enjoy a little twincest here and there,but the label of "yaoi" has recently started to branch out. It's not just unrealistic gay relationships anymore! I was happy to find some actual gay love that wasn't between two 15-year-old scrawny guys that aren't actually that good looking. But you've got terms confused. "Shounen Ai" is romance and "Shota" is yaoi with kids. College students aren't shota unless the kid is under the age of 13 and is smart enough to be in college. And they may not all be "newbs". I've been a fan for about 6 years now and I believe that my affection for the typical yaoi guy was just teenage hormones. My love of yaoi has been fine-tuned and,while I will still look at scrawny twinky-men,I believe that u may be the one who's the "newb". Not to offend,but since u probably offended a few,most women/men who like yaoi end up hating the stereotypical version. I think that many of the younger yaoi fangirls are actually closeted homophobes. That is,they wouldn't react to real gay men the way they react to yaoi.