And I never see people complaining about seeing hot shirtless guys until someone talks about sex and sexual content out loud like this. Instead, they did offer some occasional eye candy. They didn’t really contribute to the story at any point. I actually think 19 Days is an excellent example of a shounen-ai that has attracted all kinds of folks.īut let’s face it, OldXian didn’t have to include shirtless male torsos. This doesn’t, of course, mean other people can’t enjoy BL stories, too. Their main target audience is also girls and women which means their content (stories, themes, character designs, and art in general) is meant to attract and please the females.

Just as the name suggests, BL stories are about male-on-male love, romance, and sex. I know they are teenagers, but whether people want to acknowledge it or not 19 Days is also a work of boys love (BL). Before anyone gets that far, let me save your breath.

Or would you like to get caught looking at these panels at work or school (ch. I mean, I think have lost count how many times I’ve seen He Tian’s abs by now. I doubt we will ever see the characters fully naked or yaoi-level of sexual content because of censorship-related issues. I don’t think the comic itself is completely SFW, either. 19 Days’ illustrations especially contain NSFW-level of nudity, and some of them are at the very least suggestive in a sexual way: Albeit it’s usually less graphic and the story’s overall focus is different. I doubt we will ever get to yaoi-level of NSFW, but shounen-ai - which is 19 Days’ genre - can very well have NSFW content, too. I’m assuming you meant NSFW in the sense of graphic sexual content, but if you look at 19 Days from the whole definition’s point of view, I think it already is somewhat NSFW. According to Wikipedia, NSFW stands for “not safe for work” and is used to refer to material that contains nudity, intense sexuality, profanity, violence, or other potentially disturbing subject matter. I think it depends on what do you mean by NSFW. My initial answer was no, but then I went through the comic and started giving it more thought. “Do you think that 19 days will be NSFW in the future?”

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