Mmm...hot...CARTOON man love?!

Ahhh, hot man love. What would we do without you?

I suppose the answer to that question is: cry a great deal. Which is precisely what we did when we discovered that we are not yet qualified to go to YAOI CON. That's right. A complete convention dedicated to hot, steamy, (somewhat androginous) asian man love. So you can understand our utter dismay when one of the qualifications of going to Yaoi Con was that you have to be at least 18 years old. Which we, needless to say, are not. (yet.)

HOWEVER. As we also discovered, this age limit also means that some super awesome stuff happens as well. To show this, here is a real quote from Yaoi Con 2005: "'Take your pants off for your country!' — Fan girl to the buff U.S. Marine on stage."* This example is from what would probably be the most exciting part of...maybe our lives. If not the convention. The BISHOUNEN AUCTION. If you don't know what a bishounen is (also fondly referred to as "bishies"), they are pretty much just...hot manga guys. And according to the Sequential Tart article, there is much seduction, stripping, making out, dogpiles, and stuffing of money into your favorite bishie's underpants.

How awesome is it to be over 18?

*That is also from the Sequential Tart article.
**The above picture is by halobender of deviantART.