Page "Homosexuality in Japan" Paragraph 19

Likewise, women were considered to be particularly attracted to both wakashū and onnagata, and it was assumed that these young men would reciprocate that interest.

Therefore, both the typical practitioners of nanshoku and the young men they desired would be considered bisexual in modern terminology.

Men who were purely homosexual might be called " woman-haters " ( onna-girai ); this term, however, carried the connotation of aggressive distaste of women in all social contexts, rather than simply a preference for male sexual partners.