Mangás Bara : as imagens de sexo explícito gay na arte sequencial nipônica

Abstract

The Bara mangas are Japanese comics that seek to portray the gay universe, thus conceiving romance stories and sexual adventures, presenting in their narratives scenes of nudity and explicit gay sex. The aim of this study is to analyze the Bara mangas through the prism of a gay sex manual, thus pointing out characteristics that bring it closer to a manual focused on sex production, such as the various reinterpretations made about Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra. By presenting scenes of gay nudity and explicit sex in their imagery and narrative contexts, the Bara mangas communit a similar to the reinterpretations of the Kama Sutra, thus containing the presentation of sexual positions, demarcation of na ideal body pattern for these sexual relationships, based on in the influences of the North American gay bear community, as well as the presentation of sexual fetishes, ranging from practices such as BDSM, to others that end up characterizing a sexual practice focused on the gay otaku culture. KEYWORDS: Bara Manga, Shun