 In both usages, "yaoi" / boys' love excludes "gei comi" ("bara"), a genre which also depicts gay male sexual relationships, but is written for and mostly by gay men.In the West, the term "hentai yaoi" is sometimes used to denote the most explicit titles.The use of "yaoi" to denote those works with explicit scenes sometimes clashes with use of the word to describe the genre as a whole, creating confusion between Japanese and Western writers or between Western fans who insist on proper usage of the Japanese terms and those who use the Westernized versions.