I tend to check out the slender ones (and can never understand why they want to buff up!). Apparently it's big muscle men who are "gay stereotypes" in books, but I don't write them often because I'm not very attracted to heavily muscled men in real life. I seem to have a thing for slim guys with a pretty face. Yaoi has influenced my writing when it comes to humor and often the characters themselves. There's demand from the readers to keep things realistic in m/m romances, so you won't often see a very dependent/innocent uke, though they do exist, usually in college stories. Like many, I thought that m/m romance was written by men for men, but was surprised to discover that it's mostly written by women for women (they say 90%, but I don't have any solid statistics).
I love yaoi and it was something I read before I discovered m/m romance (in fact, I've been a member here for over a year - albeit, not very active after I started writing). I write m/m romance under the pen name Erica Pike.
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