tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864423579966406496.post5239758008715247242..comments2024-02-17T13:12:02.048-06:00Comments on Rockets and Dragons: Getting PhysicalStephanie Barrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864423579966406496.post-79052063392903404092011-11-07T17:12:23.435-06:002011-11-07T17:12:23.435-06:00"I've read a LOT of shoujo manga and I ca..."I've read a LOT of shoujo manga and I can count on one hand the number that have moved beyond kissing and hand-holding, maybe some light groping, to sex."<br /><br />Oh, it's out there, but only in Japanese. There's actually a lot of sexually explicit shoujo, and a ton and a half of sexually explicit josei (adult women's manga); the former is frequently called "teen's love" (or TL, by analogy to BL) and the latter "ladies' comics" (redicomi). In the Japanese market, smutty het romances for women make up about as many manga books published per year as smutty BL, although the BL books generally sell better. English-speaking readers, oddly enough, don't seem interested in girl-oriented smut unless it's BL: very little of either smutty shoujo or smutty josei has been legally published in English, and even scanlators don't do much of these sort of books. Why this is so, I'm not sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com