So. My fellow rotten boys and girls. Have you all ever..... tried GL? Girls. Love. HAVE ANY OF YOU TRIED IT BEFORE? Tell me your thoughts and what makes it good. Cough. T. B. H. I never tried it before. Nothing in it really appeals to me. I like the male form and penis. So. Cough. There’s not enough eye candy to me.
I have a question... Do you watch lesbian porn or gay porn in just normal pornhub porn? I ask this question to BL readers.
I mean… I read the porn, so there’s no need to watch it? It just feels awkward trying to watch porn. I don’t really understand watching it. I just read.
Reading gl- nope haven’t tried Watching gl- once. Literally once. Actually not too bad ... but something was missing? (No, not the third leg, but some feeling.) watching bl- yes. I find it actually softer and more romantic than hetero videos out there (And then they ask why bl is becoming more popular- who asked them to make videos so not friendly towards females?) (both actresses and viewers)
I tried 1 GL till date... it was ok. I guess as a fellow girl, I just don't find GL appealing I guess? Well that is what I feel, I just never get curious of female body in a sensual way? Idk, maybe that.
That reason I gave was for myself..perhaps it is different for yours. As for your sexuality, I don't think watching lesbian porn would determine that. You could watch just for fun too, right?
I don't read GL because I usually end up disliking most stories with female protagonists, especially in the romance genre, so not a lot of interest. I also don't understand females very well (I am one, but I was raised with my dad and brothers and boy cousins so I'm way more comfy with guys). I started reading BL originally because one of my cousins came out and got married and I didn't know much about same sex couples and was curious. my cousin thought it was funny and now we usually read stories together and he points out the unrealistic parts to me. I usually find watching porn to be boring and I'd rather read erotica instead, but even then, the girl on girl stuff never really appealed to me. most of the straight guys I know think it's pretty hot and exciting so I always assumed it was aimed at them.
Yes. Spoiler: Me after watching my first yuri {} GL can be so damn pretty. You can have drool-worthy dresses, heart-stopping beauties, and an extremely gripping romance. And there's piles and piles of fluff to pick up whenever you want it. Alternatively, it's possible to have muscled and strong women who aren't ruined by the male protagonist needing to be "manly" and "better". The aesthetic is so damn strong in yuri. Personally, I find that many of the aspects that attracted me to BL in the first place are even stronger in GL. There's a greater sense of equality in the relationships because yuri doesn't have a tradition of uke/seme dynamics. You can find some where one partner is the "top"/"dominant" one, sure, but GL tends not to constrain their actions according to those roles like BL does, and the "roles" have far less meaning. It's also way more subversive to have women break out of their assigned roles in stories than it is to have men kind of deviate from theirs. All those stories where the original harem MC turns down a completely different path and has one male lover are fun, but it's way more satisfying to me to see generic harem member #3 give the MC a middle finger and go and live a fulfilling life with her own great adventures. (Also, it's far easier to find stories that don't romanticise rape and sexual assault.) Plus it's one of the few genres where you'll see women being given real character development and agency in a story. You can "get away" with sidelining women in hetero and BL, keeping them as little more than flower vases or mascots while the readers care only about the men, but your whole story would be a steaming pile of crap if you did that in a GL. Really, there's not room or time to list all of the things that I love about GL... It's so addictively good~!
I'm a girl too! I never had any inclination towards other girls, so I'm honestly not into it. The closest I ever got to GL was "Seeking Good Temptation" (its shoujo-ai subplot). On the other hand, BL (in general- not even R-18 stuff) is so much more appealing. I'm straight, so ofc seeing attractive guys is great to me. I also tend to like the more delicate, pretty type (rather than the overly-hairy buffed guy type... kinda gross if you ask me), which fits lots of shous perfectly! In BG… there's a lot of domineering strong MLs... which is nice, I guess, but ehm. Maybe it's just the most common tropes I'm seeing. Ah, not that I don't like BG~ I read lots of nice BGs. But still. The stereotypes are everywhere. When the romance is only between one gender, I feel like there's more "equality" and less "gemder roles getting stuffed in your face at every turn". Even if there's a shou/gong dynamic. Also, I'm the type of reader who puts herself in MC's spot a tad... ah, idk how to express it, but basically, I don't want to become a stupid airhead in real life after reading too many BG romances with Mary Sue protagonists (okay every once in a while, but not every time) and somehow getting way into it and start thinking I'm a stupid lovable girl (my reading choices influence me way too much, tsk), and BL's perfect for me in that I can stay detached from the story (as in no subconsciously substituting myself in~ since all the protags are boys, and I can say I 100% do not identify as a boy!!) and still enjoy the romance! I feel like I can preserve my normal state of mind that way~ I'm not that interested in girls, though, so I've never tried GL. Plus, with girls, it feels like there's more emphasis on chests and hair and make-up and clothes and stuff (or is that just me?)... I might try in the future, but I'll just stick with BL for now!
It's something I've put on my to-do list for whenever I can get over my hate for female-led stories I have read one lesbian romance several years ago, actually, but that was more accidentally (expected it to be a het novel), and I have to say that the romance-aspect was sorely disappointing. No idea when those two actually fell in love in the course of the novel (it felt like they hardly interacted at all). But the novel as a whole wasn't that great for me so maybe it was because of that. Btw, if somebody can suggest a fluffy, light-hearted GL novel that is preferably written in 3rd person and a clean romance (so no sex or maybe some kinda fade-out), I'd totally be up for giving GL a try with that. Maybe this will actually be the key to reading female-led stories again
Specifically a novel, or is manga alright too? And do you want it really light on plot, or is some plot/drama okay?
You know what? I am realizing that I should probably open another thread for this or I'm going to derail this one Please hold onto these thoughts for me! I'll include some more details as well ... Edit: If somebody has a recommendation, I have opened a recommendation thread for that: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/gl-stories-for-a-beginner.114646/
idk i want a gl story where its least expected like if Yuri and MC from beware of villaness got together in whats suppose to be a straight novel
GL is great! What makes it good? Well.. Took all the words out of my mouth. Mary Sue may be everywhere, but it's sometimes not on GL. You get to find great female protagonists out here to be honest. And who doesn't like seeing badass females falling in love with another badass female *cough* Female General And Eldest Princess I really adore BL and it occupies most of my reading list but GL was my first love LMAO like I've read it years before BL.