WHAT IS BOYOGRAPHY?

  

Boy-ography is the term used to describe a new genre that has been emerging - and is probably best explained as a Western form of Japanese Bishōnen [美少年] – a sub-category of yaoi manga.

CONTEXT

Yaoi emerged in the 1970s as a branch of manga [comic book] created by female authors and aimed at a predominantly female audience who mockingly called themselves Fujoshi, or ‘rotten girls’. These manga stories where unique, in the respect that they featured romantic and sexual relationships between their male characters who didn’t choose to self-identify as gay or bisexual. A 2010 report estimated that the yaoi market was worth approximately £1.7billion annually.