Erin Subramian of Yuricon explains that most Japanese people see the term "lesbian" as describing either "abnormal people in pornography or strange people in other countries." Maser concurs that "yuri" is a genre primarily focused on ideals of beauty, purity, innocence, and spirituality before sexual identity; focus is placed on "connection between hearts" rather than "connection between bodies." Nagaike notes in her analysis of letters published in "Comic Yuri Hime" that many female readers of the magazine identify as heterosexual; she thus argues "yuri" is more closely aligned with homosociality than it is with homosexuality, even if the two concepts are not mutually exclusive.