Holy shit, that's the shit that article says? That's fucking retarded.
Seriously, I think that's the dumbest way you could possibly defend Yaoi.
Gah. Started reading. The author things there is somehow something wrong with pornography, or pornographic content, or at the very least feels that calling Yaoi porn is some sort of defamation. There's nothing inherently wrong with pornography. I also think it's absurdly silly to use a definition of the word that was obtained by looking at the word roots, in their original language, completely literally, instead of using a definition even approaching what is commonly used.
I really just have to ask again, why?
It also is completely fucking self defeating to say Yaoi "is not pornography by virtue that [it] is not made by men or for men and that it does not depict whores", because if you so narrowly and semi arbitrarily define pornography you essentially remove any meaning the word previosly held. To put it differently, if I say that (and this is an extreme example to demonstrate a point, because I don't feel like thinking of a more basic one), say, black people aren't human, and then go on to define human as "people who aren't black", sure I may be right in the context of my statement, but I'm sure you can see the fundamental flaw. Basically, if you change the definition of the very thing you're discussing and insist on using that definition despite it not being particularly widely used, then you don't really have an argument, you're just saying "this is what I say it is providing we use this particular and very specific definition that I just arbitrarily decided to use".
Also, this is just a cheap parting shot at those bourgeois comments, but seriously, who the fuck pays for porn of any type? And I'm pretty sure working class men consume a lot of pornography. :P