Yaoi paddle

A yaoi paddle is a wooden spanking paddle emblazoned with the word "yaoi", a term for a genre of male-male romance media originating in Japan. The paddles are a novelty item that were sold primarily at western anime conventions in the 2000s, where they were used by attendees as props for cosplay and photo ops. Others used the paddles to spank cosplayers and attendees, sometimes non-consensually; by the early 2010s, their possession and sale had been banned by most conventions due to their misuse for harassment and as weapons. In 2022, a crowdfunding campaign to re-manufacture and distribute yaoi paddles was the subject of an intellectual property dispute.