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Fudanshi
| Synonyms: | 腐男子 |
| See also: | otaku, yaoi, slasher, himejoshi, himedanshi, fujoshi |
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Fudanshi (腐男子, literally "rotten boy(s)") and fukei (腐兄, "rotten big brother(s)") are terms for male fans of yaoi media, or of fictional M/M relationships in general.
In 2008 and 2010, Yoshimoto Taimatsu surveyed self-identified fudanshi from the Japanese social networking site Mixi. Yoshimoto found in both surveys that the majority were bisexual, with gay men in second-greatest numbers, straight men in third, and asexual men in the minority. Of the bisexual fudanshi, slightly more of them had a preference for men than had a preference for women.[1]