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The hole () is a concept in , a genre of fictional media depicting homoerotic relations between men aimed at a female audience, that supposes the existence of a male sexual organ that is neither a Human penis nor an Human anus. The concept arose from depictions of anal sex in some works that appeared to defy typical anatomy and physiology, such as representations of penetrative sex in positions that do not correspond to the location of the receiving partner's anus. The hole as a phenomenon has been alternately considered as reflecting a lack of understanding about male anatomy and anal sex possessed by the (mostly female and heterosexual) writers of early , and as an intentional exaggeration reflecting a desire for fantasy over realism in pornographic fiction narratives.
The hole has been described as a "third sexual organ" that is neither feminine nor masculine. Though there is little agreement over the precise structure of the hole, its existence in fiction is widely acknowledged by Yaoi fandom. Ayako Shiramine, a former librarian at the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library, analyzed 51 works and concluded that the orifices depicted "do not seem to be an anus", as there were not definite descriptions of the orifice being an anus and it did not function like one, and concluded that the hole is a separate entity from the anus.
The origin of the term " hole" to describe this phenomenon is unknown, though sociologist and researcher speculates that it may have arisen around the year 2000 in fan communities on the Internet.
Often the passive partner in is described as being "wet" with liquid of an unknown origin, a device referred to colloquially by fans as yaoi-jiru. juice functions as a form of self-lubrication, as similar to vaginal lubrication. Chill Chill considered the hypothesis that juice was intestinal fluid, but concluded that intestinal fluid lacks the necessary viscosity, lubricity, and quantity to be used as lubricant.
Involuntary movement of the receptive partner's orifice, such as twitching or tightening, also occurs in hole stories. Ayako Shiramine, a former librarian at the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library, considers that this kind of depiction may be used to communicate pleasure on the part of the receptive partner.
Since the 2000s, has depicted male-male sex with a greater degree of realism, referencing activities such as rectal douching and . Kaneda speculates that this may be due to the fact that media depicting male-male sex, such as educational books and gay pornography, has become more readily accessible due to the Internet. The BL news site Chill Chill noted that by the 2010s, hole media had been almost entirely supplanted by the Omegaverse subgenre, which depicts similar themes and subjects such as self-lubrication and male pregnancy.
In 2003, a copypasta of a tree chart detailing various nested factions of belief in holes was posted on the textboard 2channel, which was included in the 2015 book , co-written by , Kaneda, and Iku Okada. According to a survey conducted among the roughly one hundred attendees at the 2014 event "Let's talk about the future of the hole", the largest faction was " holes do not exist, it is an anus" at 33%, followed by "I don't care about holes, is a fantasy" at 27%, and " holes do exist, the anus becomes a hole during sex" third at 18%.
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