Something that catches the attention of the girls in the yaoi works is the amount of good-looking male characters. There are levels that are shounen-ai (Light), yaoi (medium) and lemon (heavy). So you can’t demean women or call them perverts just because they say they like yaoi. Except that yaoi in general is just a romance like the shoujo, some go further, but it is not usually heavy like a hentai. When we talk about yaoi, people think about sex.