Romance Novels

[Pro-Life_Teen]

I’m confused when people say that romantic novels are women’s pornography. Do they mean adult sex scenes, or just any love involved? Would Romeo & Juliet be wrong? Or Goethe’s *Faust? *Cinderella, since she falls in love with the Prince?

It’s just been bugging me, since most all books/movies have some love involved in them. Would all these writers be in sin?

 

[NFPfamily]

In order for a novel to be pornographic, I would think it has to paint an explicit picture, usually in much description, of a sexual act. Love is not pornographic and has nothing to do with pornography. Pornography exploits the act of sex, taking love out of the equation.

 

[kage_ar]

There is an entire genre of “novels” written for women - Harlequin Romance Novels used to be the main contender - I call them “quivering loins” books. You see them in bookstores, with covers showing men with bare chests and long hair - women with plunging necklines - and titles like “Tempest of Desire”… they are filled with very descriptive sex scenes, and many women are addicted to these books!

When I was young, I liked real romance books like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights Some other Christian teens in the old days chose novels by Grace Livingston Hill. Clean romance novels…

 

[tee_eff_em]

kage_ar:

There is an entire genre of “novels” written for women - Harlequin Romance Novels used to be the main contender - I call them “quivering loins” books.

Alternatively: “bosom busters” or “bodice rippers”, due to the depiction of the heroines on those covers, breaking out of their dresses.

tee

 

[Firebug]

Jane Eyre was a beautiful book.
Sometimes, there are books that you wouldn’t think you’d find such detailed sex scenes in them; this has happened to me a few times, and is bound to happen again and again. What I do, is skip over that part.

 

[Feanaro_s_Wife]

Pro-Life_Teen:

I’m confused when people say that romantic novels are women’s pornography.

Not romantic novels, “romance” novels.

Romance is not bad. But what people are usually referring to when they say “romance” novels are books that are very explicit or trashy.

Think really cheesy soap opera in a book, lol.

Malia

 

[SeekerJen]

kage_ar:

There is an entire genre of “novels” written for women - Harlequin Romance Novels used to be the main contender - I call them “quivering loins” books. You see them in bookstores, with covers showing men with bare chests and long hair - women with plunging necklines - and titles like “Tempest of Desire”… they are filled with very descriptive sex scenes, and many women are addicted to these books!

Yup- pretty much all of the novels you find on sale at the drug store next to the reading glasses. If it looks trashy on the outside, the inside probably matches.

Give me a good Jane Austen novel any day over that garbage.