>>3121213Bara is supposed to be male-oriented by definition, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_(genre)So bara just means "gay stuff made by gay guys", whereas yaoi/BL outgrew from womens magazines. Being that it is made for men it tends to be pretty heavy on the sex too.
I'm not sure which is more rapey, Japanese media in general is always kinda rapey but BL seems to get away with it a lot more readily in the West. Rapey shoujo smut, while still popular, will get extremely controversial ratings on manga sites, whereas rapey yaoi doesn't seem to suffer for it at all. No way would a hetero version of Koisuru Boukun be sitting at 8.6 on mangaupdates, thats for sure.
>I don't find that look attractive at all, nor do many people here judging from the ratio of threads containing skinny boys to threads with fat ones.I kind of assume most people on /cm/ are women/girls but beauty standards for men and how they intersect with the media we consume and our
culture is something else I guess. 
