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Originally Posted by Triple_R
A lot of anime shows (and some manga, light novels, and visual novels) that aren't yuri as a primary genre nonetheless have yuri as a secondary and/or implied element. Think of some major magical girl titles, for example.
And these yuri secondary elements are indeed intended to titillate the viewer.
Meanwhile, yaoi secondary elements in non-yaoi anime is typically there just for comedy (to use a recent example, consider the character of Fire Emblem in Tiger and Bunny).
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Nah, you're just not looking at things the 'right way'. Implied yaoi is much more numerous than implied yuri, as mainstream shounen fighting and especially mecha are littered with these.
Reason being? Very few people bats an eyelash when two girls are overly friendly and/or has some very strong rivalry between the two, even those who are into yuri.
But when you have 2 guys who are "attached to the hip" inseparable best friends, or their friendship is torn apart by circumstances and they need to fight each other, or they were in separate sides in the first place but both of them are trying very hard to understand each other, all hats are off... whether any of this implied yaoi is intentional or not.
In essence, it's a matter how the shippers themselves look for the pairing they like. In my experience, it takes a lot less canon material for an average yaoi shipper to find a particular couple 'ship worthy' than for an average yuri shipper. At the very least, this would explain the dominance of yaoi doujin over yuri ones.
Just my 2 cents.