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This chapter examines Boys Love (BL) studies in Japan, highlighting Nakajima Azusa's paper Communication Dysfunction Syndrome (Komyunikēshon fuzen shōkōgun). Published in 1991, this research paper is considered to be the first full-fledged critical analysis of Japanese BL. Nakajima's self-reflexive analysis evokes a number of important questions, including that of why significant numbers of Japanese women crave male homosexual narratives. Her study argues that women who are consistently exposed to a normative masculine gaze in the context of a partriarchal society attempt to elide their female bodies—and such socially imposed paradigms as female beauty, motherhood, and the reproductive function of sex—by taking refuge in the idealized sphere of male homosexual fantasies. The chapter also looks into the studies of Fujimoto Yukari, who asserts that, in BL works, the problematic aspects of female sexuality unquestionably involve an impulse to escape the pain associated with being passive in sexual acts.
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