“Critics who treat 'heterosexual' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be hetero themselves. To be concerned about being straight, to admire the hetero because it is hetero, to blush at the suspicion of being a faggot; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to not be faggots. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being straight is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read yaoi in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read BL openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of faggotry and the desire to be very heterosexual.”