>>107010446No it doesn't. The terms you're looking for are bishounen or ikemen. In Japan nobody even uses the term yaoi anymore, and western people who are interested in the subculture have followed suit. But pitting bara and bishounen against each other creates a false dichotomy, since they are two subgenres but they don't represent every body type/character design that can be represented.
>>107010465That it's more popular with the gays? I think that's a fairly well-established phenomenon in Japan. It's not to say that there aren't women who like bara. Japan has different concepts of masculinity and male desirability than we do. They associate hyper-masculinity with homosexuality, and most women prefer men who are mild-tempered and a bit androgynous, or even effeminate.
