@secretspade (pls ignore the comments that are making it seem like something terrible, bc it's honestly not. )
Honestly it's not like BL is a fandom, I know from the outside it seems that way, but in reality it's just another romance genre but just not straight. A lot of people fetishize same-sex relationships, and that makes people who haven't read it yet be weary of trying to read it.
Also please remember that there's a difference between yaoi and shounen ai. yaoi has more of
those scenes, while shounen ai doesn't. If you decide to start reading any then I suggest starting with shounen ai (if you're using the mangadex tag) You'll find a lot of stories that are pretty amazing.
All people are different, and you can see that in manga/webtoons/etc. They're just romantic relationships between humans by the end of the story.
If you want to talk about the "different tension" thing, then that exists in all romantic relationships.
If you just want to read manga, then just read it.
So in the end , if you start choosing to read non-hetro romantic relationships, there's nothing wrong with it, and you don't need to be worried about "being roped in" .
It's your choice, no one can "force" you to start reading it. If you read it, then okay, if you don't , then that's okay too.