 Recent online surveys of English-speaking readers of "yaoi" indicate that 50-60% of female readers self-identify as heterosexual.Although the genre is marketed to girls and women, there is a gay, bisexual, and heterosexual male readership as well.A survey of "yaoi" readers among patrons of a United States library found about one quarter of respondents were male; two online surveys found approximately ten percent of the broader Anglophone "yaoi" readership were male.