For instance, it became popular on fanfiction sites such as FanFiction.Net for some stories to be labeled as yaoi only if they contained explicit sex scenes or were generally heavier on sex as opposed to romance. While in Japan, the term boys’ love can now encompass all levels of sexual content, yaoi, which has since become more obscure in its home country, became a way in the West for fans to differentiate between levels of sexual content. The acronym also received an alternative and even more satirical meaning: " Yamete, oshiri ga inai" - or "Stop it, my butt hurts." Standing for " Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi" ("No climax, no point, no meaning"), it’s been said to describe the tendency for these BL titles to abandon any real plot in favor of sex - in other words, boys' love works that exist for the "climax" rather than the story or romantic build-up. In the late 1970s and early '80s, the acronym 'yaoi' was created and popularized in Japan as a way to refer to fan-published works, or doujinshi, based on already-existing franchises. While boys' love has gradually been adopted as a mainstream term for the genre by publishers and consumers in Japan as well as overseas audiences, it wasn’t always that way, and some confusion between it and other terms still exists, especially outside of Japan.
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