While some doujinshi portray the characters as slender and feminized, DBZ yaoi fans are something of an oddity in the yaoi community in that the men are heavily-muscled warriors & fighters.
A very informative article on the appeal of slash can be found in Wired News at Īs a generalization, characters in yaoi are often extremely feminine. After all what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Yaoi is a genre for women analogous to girl-on-girl erotica for men no one ever questions what the appeal for seeing two chicks get it on is for a guy. Dragonball Z yaoi is a sub-fandom of DBZ fans who are interested in sexual or romantic relationships between the male characters.
