Okay, so there's obviously come confusion:
YAOI IS ONLY FOR ANIME.
Anything other than anime boyXboy is called SLASH.

Acronym for ‘yama-nashi , ochi-nashi , imi-nashi,’ translated to ‘no climax, no plot, no meaning.’

Originally assigned as a self-derogatory term to amateur m/m doujinshi in the 1980s, not because of their pornographic nature but because of their poor storytelling techniques.

Term was dropped after the 1991 Japanese economic boom, as more publishing companies began professionally producing m/m fiction. They wanted to move away from the ‘amateur pornographic’ nature of yaoi, so they adopted the genre name BL (boy’s love)

yaoi is an outdated term. However it’s sometimes used in Japanese doujinshi sites, and some japanese use it as a complete misnomer for BL (the genre as a whole). it does NOT mean ‘fetishy explicit BL.’ there is no such genre in Japan. What publishing company in their right mind would make that a genre in the first place?

Boy x Boy Love, But It's a Drawing or an Animation. Either way, it's better than gay porn and hentai.

It's a gay manga(or manhwa/manhua) more extreme then the usual shounen ai also known as BL

it’s an exquisite pleasurable genre of erotic literature. Simply to reach the characters “peak” in physical touch.

contrary to what most of the idiots who post on this site have said, yaoi is not 'gay porn', and is not 'usually rated x or higher.' yaoi is a japanese word, and it is, essentially, gays doing gay stuff. it CAN be "gay porn", but is not always. it can be simply two boys, usually anime boys, hugging or sitting with their arms around eachother. or kissing, or...sex.
teh female equivalent is yaoi.

pronounced y-ow-ee
means boy-love in anime and manga
often used for ryou/yami fanshipping vids