Let's not forget that a lot of both explicit and implicit queer media during and following the AIDs crisis have a strong focus on sexuality for the purpose of destigmatizing homosexuality and to combat the idea that gay sex is "dirty"

Horror is the ideal platform for this because of the perception that any sex at all is evil and bad things happen to people who are sexually active outside the context of marriage, but it's definitely not the only genre that uses these themes

And in the context of the onlyoneof music video and other similar music videos, they're often criticized for "reducing" lgbt relationships to only the sexual aspects. That is a fair assumption! Considering a lot of modern explicit queer media just straight up porn, esp +

queer media from the lovely countries that gave us "yaoi" "yuri" and "bl" manga/webcomics, but I think we need to think beyond that in order to enjoy the morsels of queer representation we get from kpop in a grand scale, especially from artists that don't explicitly say that+

interpreting the art they make is gay is wrong and wasn't their intention. Automatically assuming the worst combats any genuine attempts from the artists to normalize queer relationships in Korean media