First encounter with erotic stuff was when I was in first grade and I started using YouTube. There was this anime with these two lesbians grabbing boobs and kissing (it was an amv) - never knew what it meant till I was in seventh grade and I found out about yuri.
I think the first time was when I ended up reading Kingdom Hearts yaoi, with Sora and Riku. It was a high-school au. I don't know how, why, or WHY, but things just happen. It also made no sense???
If it won't poison a relationship, then why all the decades of published psychological materials marital counseling revolving around the use of all types of labido-enhancing images and literature? Why do people in marriages feel that they cannot enjoy their partner without some form of assistance? Do you think the body is the only thing that can be stretched out of proportion? Our disproportionately enlarged appetites are the fuel for the damage we do to the body, not the reverse. If you arrived in a country where the inhabitants broke out into a cold sweat and started groaning and salivating to pictures and stories of extremely high quality food, and they were all obese to some degree or another, you would be certain that something was egregiously out of order with their view of food, especially if they argued hotly with you and told you that you are wrong, that uninhibited desire for food and the resulting obesity are both natural and desirable.
You would think you had landed in a country of wholly selfish and disgusting people, as well as more than a little psychotic. So why do not we in the west view our propensity for boundless sexual fulfillment in the same light?
We readily excuse life-threatening venereal diseases as not such a horrible risk to take for sexual fulfillment, children are trained in sexuality in our schools from an age so young that they cannot possibly have a reference point for the barrage of life-altering information they are forced to absorb; and we despise obesity in main part due to obesity being eschewed in the west as an assault on common decency because it is excess!!! But uninhibited sex, with all its potentially lethal consequences, is embraced because it does not produce a visible result. If it did, if unimpeded sexual satisfaction made us fat, we would surely see obesity as desirable, regardless of the health consequences. So it is our sexual nature that we have allowed to get out of hand, if for no other reason that any extreme produces fracture in society, but more so because we ignore the very real consequences of our wanton behavior in this particular area and largely intolerant all other vice.
My first encounter was when I read the cherry phanfic, immediately followed by the hat phanfic. Needles to say, I couldn't read again for 7 weeks because I was only 11 years old
I didn't know about yuri until reaching 7th grade
Yaoi bro. Shits real
Although literally it's etymology also covers written works, so I guess it could be construed that way.