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[nleseul]

An interesting diary from Daily Kos today:

The Eroticization of Equality and Social Justice

Progressives should pay serious, and respectful, attention to romance fiction, for two reasons

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[ladyfelicity]

That is a really neat article.
The question, as stated, is how to make it erotic?
As someone else hinted at in the comments, a story, in my mind, is often around conflict. It's almost a cliche that if everyone were happy in a novel there would be no novel. There would be no conflict, no change, and no story.
I can see it being a difficult writing challenge to start with two healthy individuals who don't *need* a significant other. I suppose it could be like, "She was happy on her own, but sometimes she wished she didn't have to eat alone at night." I'm sure this has already been written by some romance author.
I'm glad I read this. It's really neat, the idea that love can, well, conquer all. And fix a lot of what's wrong with the world. The connection between "illicit" sex (gays, young people, the unmarried) and a threat to patriarchal/authoritarian systems was really interesting.
There was one, sort of romance/erotica novel I read but did not get to finish (I moved and it was a library book). It was called "She's No Faerie Princess." She *is* a faerie princess, and she has quite a lot of power within her fearie realm. She falls in love with a werewolf, a sort of alpha guy, of course, but even within his clan (he has a younger nephew, for instance, who also eyes the faerie princess but the older werewolf tells him to back off.)
So I'd say these two were similarly powerful, and both strong-headed to boot. I have to say, there was some *smoldering* love scenes, some of the best I've read. I hope to finish the book some day and see if it ends on as good of a note as it started. The problems were just beginning where I left off. :)