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[brown_betty]

A while ago, Dear Author posted Why I Now Hate Erotic Romance, a long letter from someone in the industry discussing what she finds most frustrating about the genre. Her objections to it are about the morality of it, and it's a fairly complex argument, which I do not completely follow

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[sara_lakali]

Do you have the wrong end of the Erotic Romance stick? I don't know. I suspect I haven't read the type of books you're describing. Certainly, I read a lot of Harlequin romances in my younger days, of the 'the hero is a humongous asshole but somehow the heroine falls in love with him anyway' variety. There was a sex scene towards the end, that wasn't very explicitly described and, even to my virginal thirteen-to-eighteen-year-old-self, not very realistic.

I have also read some erotica that might be described as romance in that a male character and a female character fall in love, or something like love, at the end of the story, but I mostly just read that for the porn and not the emotion.

I have heard of other romance novels (usually historicals that are decidedly light on historical fact) that do have a lot of sex scenes in them, but use very, very purple prose to describe the sex. I tend to avoid those like the plague.