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"antiquated ideas of womanhood"

Don't romance novels consistently do really well on ebooks? Sounds like they're following the market, not leading it.
Posted by doceb on December 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 2

Sounds so very Helen Churlish Brown.
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on December 5, 2012 at 3:23 PM
no marketable skills 3
i hope each chapter begins with a sex/personality/love quiz.
Posted by no marketable skills on December 5, 2012 at 3:23 PM
biffp 4
50 moves in one night? That's nearly all the positions in the Kama Sutra. Let's keep it in the realm of reality.
Posted by biffp on December 5, 2012 at 3:51 PM
Urgutha Forka 5
Fifty Shades of Dumb
Posted by Urgutha Forka on December 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Max Solomon 6
Antiquated or not, anything that makes women want to fuck can't be all bad.
Posted by Max Solomon on December 5, 2012 at 4:08 PM
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My wife reads dozens (if not hundreds) of romance novels a year. I don't think she reads Harlequin anymore, though. She's more into smaller companies who publish stories about polyamory and shapeshifters and polyamorous shapeshifters. On a side note, Google Chrome's spellchecker wants me to replace polyamory with polyandry.
Posted by jzimbert on December 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM
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Women like erotica, so what? I don't see you lamenting the old fashionedness of porn consumption.
Posted by wxPDX on December 5, 2012 at 4:44 PM
disintegrator 9
"Sex moves" is such a goofy term.
Posted by disintegrator http://bottlevariation.blogspot.com on December 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM
biffp 10
@6, agreed. Fifty shades was an embarassment, but there were some benefits.
Posted by biffp on December 5, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Roma 11
1/doceb: Sounds like they're following the market, not leading it.

That's my feeling too. Women (not all, of course) complain about men's interest in porn but the fact is that women love porn too, just a different kind of porn. Guys like to watch people fucking; women like "great dialogue and compelling romance."
Posted by Roma on December 5, 2012 at 6:15 PM
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That's a lot of rocks pressed into a lot of taints.
Posted by charity on December 5, 2012 at 6:33 PM
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I also agree with @6.

And also, women are gobbling these like candy, so, apparently, they're not that offensive to women. Let 'em have their sex fantasies. Guys have theirs.
Posted by floater on December 5, 2012 at 6:55 PM
this guy I know in Spokane 14
e-book readers are God's gift because nobody can see the cover of what you're reading. "Oh, you know, just some Dostoevsky in the original Russian" -- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30254
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on December 5, 2012 at 10:38 PM
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Ebook erotica is a huge market and make no mistake: when they talk about "compelling romance" that really means "hot fucking."

At least, that's what readers expect. It's entirely possible that Cosmo/Harlequin are so out of touch that they fail to print the whips-and-tentacles-and-triple-penetration dirty stuff that's really taking off now and instead publish some dull one man, one woman, missionary while gazing lovingly into one another's eyes boring shit.

Many women are huge perverts and they will spend obscene amounts of money on ebook erotica. God bless them.
Posted by Zuulabelle http://www.mellophant.com on December 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM

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