Yaoi: An Introduction

For all the Fleshbot readers who wrote or IMed us this week (okay, both of you) to ask us what this yaoi thing mentioned in our sidebar is: it's a form of Japanese manga produced by female artists for a female audience involving romantic and sexual relationships between men. We'll let the experts at Yaoi Con explain it better while we go take another look at these scans of work by one of our favorite yaoi artists.

What is yaoi? (YaoiCon.com)
"The Sound of Water Heard from Far Away" (Mika Sadahiro @ The Yaoi Shrine)