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FUDANSHI: MEN AND THE CONSUMPTN OF GAY THEM MANGA AND ANIME
If you e "e" and "seme" to scribe particpants yuri relatnships, I image you'll be unrstood, but 'd be very weird - male homosexual relatnships and female homosexual relatnships are nceptualized que differently om one another Japan, and e/seme is only an element of the former.
Here is a basic (and oversimplified) sketch of how homosexualy is nceptualized: a relatnship between two men, one of them needs to "be the woman". The reasons are probably myriad; one obv one riv om how perative sex works - one party mt "attack" ("seme") and the other party mt "receive" ("e") - and perative sex is obvly more monly an element of male homosexual relatnships than female on. In this rpect, Euro-Amerin and Japane notns of male homosexualy are not entirely dissiar.
But anyway, whatever the reason, the fact of the matter is that e/seme termology is by far more entrenched the male homosexual muny than the female homosexual muny. And this distctn perlat om actual homosexual muni to the muni of people who nsume media about homosexualy (yaoi/yuri).