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75 relations: A Touch of Fever, AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com, Badi (magazine), Barazoku, BDSM, Bear (gay culture), Beefcake magazine, Bishōjo game, Bishōnen, Blue-collar worker, Body hair, Chub (gay slang), Daily Xtra, Dating sim, Dōjin soft, Dōjinshi, Digital Manga, Dotdash, Eikoh Hosoe, English draughts, Eroge, Erotic art, Erotic comics, Fetish magazine, G-men (magazine), Gay, Gengoroh Tagame, Genre, George Quaintance, Hentai, Heteronormativity, Homoeroticism, Homophobia, Homosexuality in Japan, Hush! (2001 film), Josei manga, Kuso Miso Technique, Lesbian, LGBT themes in comics, Manga, Manga: The Complete Guide, Masculinity, Mechademia, Nitro+chiral, Nitroplus, One-shot (comics), Pachinko, Pederasty, Plot device, Pornography in Japan, ..., Rachel Matt Thorn, Red Blinds the Foolish, Romance novel, Ryōsuke Hashiguchi, Sadao Hasegawa, Sadomasochism, Samson (magazine), Scanlation, Seinen manga, Sexual abuse, Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures, Shōjo manga, Shunga, State University of New York, Tamotsu Yatō, The Comics Journal, Tom of Finland, Trade dress, Ukiyo-e, Visual novel, Wasei-eigo, Western world, Women's Studies Quarterly, Yaoi, Yukio Mishima. Expand index (25 more) »
A Touch of Fever
Hatachi No Binetsu (二十才の微熱, A Touch of Fever, The Slight Fever of a Twenty Year Old) is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Yoshihiko Hakamada and Masashi Endo, released in 1993.
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AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com
AfterEllen.com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media.
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Badi (magazine)
Badi, stylized as Bʌ́di, is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men.
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Barazoku
is Japan's first male gay magazine commercially circulated.
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BDSM
BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.
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Bear (gay culture)
In male gay culture, a bear is often a larger, hairier man who projects an image of rugged masculinity.
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Beefcake magazine
Beefcake magazines were magazines published in North America in the 1930s to 1960s that featured photographs of attractive, muscular young men in athletic poses.
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Bishōjo game
A, or, is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls".
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Bishōnen
is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man whose beauty (and sexual appeal) transcends the boundary of gender or sexual orientation.
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Blue-collar worker
In the United States and (at least some) other English-speaking countries, a blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor.
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Body hair
Body hair, or androgenic hair, is the terminal hair that develops on the human body during and after puberty.
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Chub (gay slang)
A chub is an overweight or obese gay man who identifies as being part of the related chubby culture.
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Daily Xtra
Daily Xtra (formerly Xtra!) is an LGBT-focused internet magazine and former print newspaper published by Pink Triangle Press in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Dating sim
Dating sims, or, are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
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Dōjin soft
, also sometimes called, with dōjin sometimes transliterated as doujin or doujinshi, are video games created by Japanese hobbyists or hobbyist groups (referred to as "circles"), more for fun than for profit; essentially, the Japanese equivalent of independent video games or Fangames.
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Dōjinshi
is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels.
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Digital Manga
Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese manga, anime, and related merchandise.
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Dotdash
Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.
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Eikoh Hosoe
is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan.
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English draughts
English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English; see spelling differences), also called American checkers or straight checkers, is a form of the strategy board game draughts.
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Eroge
An is a Japanese pornographic video game.
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Erotic art
Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making.
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Erotic comics
Erotic comics are adult comics which focus substantially on nudity and sexual activity, either for their own sake or as a major story element.
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Fetish magazine
A fetish magazine is a type of magazine originating in the late 1940s which is devoted to sexual fetishism.
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G-men (magazine)
is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
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Gengoroh Tagame
is an openly gay Japanese manga artist, one of the most influential creators in the field of manga for gay male readers.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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George Quaintance
George Quaintance (June 3, 1902 – November 8, 1957) was an American artist, famous for his "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men in mid-20th-century physique magazines.
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Hentai
Outside of Japan, (lit. "pervert") is anime and manga pornography.
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Heteronormativity
Heteronormativity is the belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life.
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Homoeroticism
Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, either male–male or female–female.
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Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
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Homosexuality in Japan
Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times.
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Hush! (2001 film)
Hush! (ハッシュ!) is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi and Reiko Kataoka, released in 2001.
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Josei manga
are Japanese comics aimed at women in their late teens on into adulthood that are able to read kanji without the help of furigana.
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Kuso Miso Technique
is a one-shot bara manga by first published in a manga supplement of the gay magazine Barazoku in 1987.
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman.
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LGBT themes in comics
LGBT themes in comics are a relatively new concept, as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) themes and characters were historically omitted intentionally from the content of comic books and their comic strip predecessors, due to either censorship or the perception that comics were for children.
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Manga
are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
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Manga: The Complete Guide
Manga: The Complete Guide is a 2007 encyclopedia written by Jason Thompson and published by Del Rey which provides basic details and short reviews of over 1000 Japanese manga titles that have been translated and released in English in North America.
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Masculinity
Masculinity (manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with boys and men.
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Mechademia
Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices.
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Nitro+chiral
Nitro+chiral is a subsidiary of the Japanese visual novel company Nitroplus that focuses on creating BL eroge visual novels.
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Nitroplus
Nitroplus Co., Ltd., stylized as nitro+, is a Japanese visual novel computer software company that has developed a number of visual novels, including eroge.
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One-shot (comics)
In the comic book publishing industry, a one-shot is a comic book published as a single, standalone issue, with a self-contained story, and not as part of an ongoing series or miniseries.
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Pachinko
is a type of mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.
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Pederasty
Pederasty or paederasty is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male.
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Plot device
A plot device, or plot mechanism, is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.
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Pornography in Japan
Pornography in Japan is a large and intertwined business of adult entertainment with unique characteristics that readily distinguish it from Western pornography.
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Rachel Matt Thorn
Rachel "Matt" Thorn (born May 12, 1965) is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan.
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Red Blinds the Foolish
is a Japanese yaoi manga written and illustrated by est em.
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Romance novel
Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version.
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Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
is a Japanese film director particularly known for projects concerning LGBT community issues.
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Sadao Hasegawa
was a Japanese graphic artist specializing in male erotica.
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Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.
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Samson (magazine)
Samson (月刊サムソン) is a monthly Japanese magazine for gay men.
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Scanlation
Scanlation (also scanslation) is the fan-made scanning, translation, and editing of comics from a language into another language.
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Seinen manga
are manga marketed toward young adult men.
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Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is usually undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
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Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures are subcultures and communities composed of people who have shared experiences, backgrounds, or interests due to common sexual or gender identities.
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Shōjo manga
is manga aimed at a teenage female target-demographic readership.
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Shunga
is a Japanese term for erotic art.
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State University of New York
The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States.
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Tamotsu Yatō
was a Japanese photographer and occasional actor responsible for pioneering Japanese homoerotic photography and creating iconic black-and-white images of the Japanese male.
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The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.
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Tom of Finland
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic fetish art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture.
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Trade dress
Trade dress is a legal term of art that generally refers to characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers.
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
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Visual novel
A is an interactive game genre, which originated in Japan, featuring mostly static graphics, most often using anime-style art or occasionally live-action stills (and sometimes video footage).
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Wasei-eigo
are Japanese-language expressions based on English words or parts of word combinations, that do not exist in standard English or whose meanings differ from the words from which they were derived.
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Western world
The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.
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Women's Studies Quarterly
Women's Studies Quarterly, often referred to as WSQ, is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press.
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Yaoi
Yaoi (やおい), primarily known as in Japan, is a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female authors.
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Yukio Mishima
is the pen name of, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, film director, founder of the Tatenokai, and nationalist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre)
