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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.