Yaoi Press Publisher Arrested for Drug Operation
Abraham has been charged with seven counts of criminal mail fraud, a count misbranding of a drug, and one count of introducing foreign goods under false pretenses. If convicted, Abraham faces up to 20 years in prison, and up to $750,000 in fines.
Yaoi Press was founded in 2004, and currently has over 20 yaoi titles on the market.
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Report from the Las Vegas Sun
Report from Bleeding Cool
Story by ScrumYummy
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some of us support gay relationships, and get mad when someone is rude about it.
Sep 24, 2009 4:38 PM by Maora
Sep 24, 2009 4:38 PM by Trefoil
Sep 24, 2009 2:29 PM by windy
Is the take home message "don't do drugs" or "don't read OEL yaoi?"
Don't do drugs when you are the OEL yaoi publisher.
Sep 24, 2009 10:09 AM by ladyxzeus
"American cops should catch the yuri publisher instead! This is unfair only yaoi publisher go to jail while the yuri ones still at mass crowd. Lesbianism is the greatest threat to mankind. Many times worse than global warming and terrorism."
What yaoi fangirls react to this issue...
A lot of girls that read yaoi are lesbians. FYI.
Sep 24, 2009 8:54 AM by ScrumYummy
FUCK YES.
One WIN point more for law enforcement system in USA.
Obama - making the country manlier, one yaoi publisher at the time.
lolz dunt wanna be mean to any gays on site but ya
>_<
lol. That's hilarious. XD I really don't think it'd bug gay people as much as fan girls. All my gay friends are into regular shonen.
Sep 24, 2009 3:22 AM by Manga_sama
the less people that have something in common with yaoi, the better.
You rasist :P
Sep 24, 2009 12:18 AM by Nami
and one count of introducing foreign goods under false pretenses.
I hope that means the yaoi books
OEL yaoi publisher
haha! That's adorable XD
Sep 23, 2009 11:21 PM by ScrumYummy
Sep 23, 2009 8:37 PM by AlexSadist-sama
Is the take home message "don't do drugs" or "don't read OEL yaoi?"
Don't read OEL "manga"
Sep 23, 2009 8:33 PM by Hamel
What about yuri next? Involved in a mafia business?
Sep 23, 2009 6:25 PM by Iri
I smell some bias made by yuri fanboys...What about yuri next? Involved in a mafia business?
Sep 23, 2009 6:11 PM by katzenjammer
Abraham has been charged with seven counts of criminal mail fraud, a count misbranding of a drug, and one count of introducing foreign goods under false pretenses. If convicted, Abraham faces up to 20 years in prison, and up to $750,000 in fines.
Sep 23, 2009 5:35 PM by Antanaru
Sep 23, 2009 4:56 PM by shinkeikaku
Sep 23, 2009 4:48 PM by Hybrid00
and one count of introducing foreign goods under false pretenses.
I hope that means the yaoi books
OEL yaoi publisher
Sep 23, 2009 4:43 PM by Plate
Sep 23, 2009 4:42 PM by feeq
the less people that have something in common with yaoi, the better.
This and...
Obama - making the country manlier, one yaoi publisher at the time.
WTF!?!? LOL! Or anything else related for this... statement ^^'
Sep 23, 2009 4:31 PM by vault2049
and one count of introducing foreign goods under false pretenses.
I hope that means the yaoi books
Sep 23, 2009 4:18 PM by theanimeis
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Not that many other people are being pinnacles of humanity either. Just because you don't like it doesn't give you a right to bash it. Whatever happened to "live and let live"?
People liking yaoi isn't hurting anyone, same as people liking shoujo or shounen, or jousei or whatever genre you want to talk about. It's just a genre, and people that like it don't deserve bashing any more than shounen fans deserve bashing by shoujo fans.
And something like this news article should be held against the person, not the genre. This person isn't the one writing and drawing the manga, they're just publishing them for a wider audience than would have been available had publishers outside of Japan not bothered with bringing manga over the same as Viz or Tokyopop. What the person did was wrong, and I agree with them getting punished to the full extent the law allows, but that shouldn't reflect on the materials that the company publishes.
I just want everyone to get along, what's wrong with that? What you read isn't my business. If we happen to have similar tastes, fine. If not, that's okay too.
I'd also like to mention that a vast number of yaoi fans are straight girls, the same as many yuri/girl-on-girl stuff is enjoyed by straight guys.
Mod Edit: Troll edited out, and troll posts deleted above. (Not by the user who made this post, mind you.)
Also nice that this was handled so maturely. :)
Sep 24, 2009 4:42 PM by aoigensou