Reading Tanbi: Female Sexuality and Fujoshi’s Self-identity

• Main Authors: Zhang ,Yi, 張熠
• Other Authors: 方念萱
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m6j2xw

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 傳播學院傳播碩士學位學程 === 104 === 　　Fujoshi are girls/women interested in reading literary works on Tanbi，which is also called Boy's Love. Usually there is no obvious boundary between Tanbi novels and pornographic novel. Fujoshi are thought to be a group of people who are against the social consensus of sex and female sexuality. So the author here focused on the Heterosexual Fujoshi and tried to see how they react to the stigma and where their self understanding come from. Meanwhile the author also focus on their actual erotic feeling while reading Tanbi novels and their erotic experience in real life. Depth interview method was adopted in this article. After interviewing 13 Fujoshi, the author came to the following conclusions: 　　The stigma of Fujoshi come from the stigma of homosexuality. Fujoshi tend not to confess their identity to those who are not Fujoshi as they have a clear understanding of the criticism they may face. On the other side, some Fujoshi are trying to change the misunderstanding by telling others that reading Tanbi novels is just their hobby and by emphasizing that they are heterosexual. Some are trying to avoid doing things that attracting most criticism. Others may believe that to correct the stigma of homosexuality will help the correction of stigma about themselves. 　　As a reader, Fujoshi’s love for the pornography in Tanbi has something to do with their resistance to the description of heterosexual pornography. They usually attach great importance to the love and equality in male and male sex. So they can gain pleasure experience from reading Tanbi pronography. They make many comments on men’s body and the male and male sex. Through this way, the erotic feeling of Fujoshi for men can be released. 　　When it comes to real life, as a doer of female sexuality, some Fujoshi will refuse to talk about their own erotic experience or try to deny they get more information of the female sexuality in Tanbi pronography by their own erotic life. In their mind, they can keep being a girl/woman who has no desire for sex and who is pure and innocent in this way.