 "Yaoi" manga often have fantastical, historical or futuristic settings, and many fans consider the genre to be an "escapist fantasy".Homophobia, when it is presented as an issue at all, is used as a plot device to "heighten the drama", or to show the purity of the leads' love.Rachel Thorn has suggested that readers of the "yaoi" genre, which primarily features romantic narratives, may be turned off by strong political themes such as homophobia.