Romance Porn

[JimG]

I didn’t realize that literary porn was such a huge business.

“Walking through our local Walmart, I find a wide shelf full of Harlequins and other explicit “pornmance” literature, right next to a bookshelf filled with children’s coloring books and books about Dora and Thomas the Train. How convenient that moms can pick up their reading at the same time as the kids get theirs! Obviously Walmart didn’t think it inappropriate to pair these two types of literature—but I doubt they would pair children’s books with a shelf full of pornographic magazines.”

–Romance Porn: More Women are Addicted Than you think.

 

[E_7]

:stretcher: this is bad.

 

[Joie_de_Vivre]

I didn’t realize that literary porn was such a huge business.

“Walking through our local Walmart, I find a wide shelf full of Harlequins and other explicit “pornmance” literature, right next to a bookshelf filled with children’s coloring books and books about Dora and Thomas the Train. How convenient that moms can pick up their reading at the same time as the kids get theirs! Obviously Walmart didn’t think it inappropriate to pair these two types of literature—but I doubt they would pair children’s books with a shelf full of pornographic magazines.”

–Romance Porn: More Women are Addicted Than you think.

Are men just realising that women’s erotica is a bigger business than pornography?

 

[JimG]

Are men just realising that women’s erotica is a bigger business than pornography?

Probably so. I just figured that men’s porn was a bigger business, but apparently not.

 

[anon67074017]

They may be subliminally promoting porn to kids.

 

[JimG]

They may be subliminally promoting porn to kids.

Well, that may be a separate issue, but in the meantime, mom can buy the kid an age appropriate children’s book along with a sexually explicit novel for herself from the same store. I have to wonder though, how the family dynamics will be affected if dad is addicted to internet porn and mom is addicted to romance porn.

 

[anon67074017]

Well, that may be a separate issue, but in the meantime, mom can buy the kid an age appropriate children’s book along with a sexually explicit novel for herself from the same store. I have to wonder though, how the family dynamics will be affected if dad is addicted to internet porn and mom is addicted to romance porn.

The child may grow up thinking that porn is acceptable.

 

[RPRPsych]

There’s a reason why many Saints warned us about romances (and yes, I know those were relatively tame adventure / love stories, but the point still stands.)

Even without explicit sex, many romances act as a sort of psychological porn, promoting unrealistic and unbalanced views of man / woman relationships.

 

[esieffe]

On the article there is a link for this writers website. She says she likes to write steamy hot books. When you click on her site, moving flames come up. Oh the irony.

 

[Strydersroom]

Romance novels are not porn at all. The thing people need to realize is that adults don’t want to only read g rated books and watch g rated movies. If a book or movie describes a lovemaking scene it does not always equate to pornography which is explicit and graphic. Showing a couple kidding and even rolling covered in the sheets does not equal pornography in my opinion.

 

[JimG]

Romance novels are not porn at all. The thing people need to realize is that adults don’t want to only read g rated books and watch g rated movies. If a book or movie describes a lovemaking scene it does not always equate to pornography which is explicit and graphic. Showing a couple kidding and even rolling covered in the sheets does not equal pornography in my opinion.

That’s true, but the author’s point is that if you take some of the sex scenes from these novels and depicted them on screen exactly as written, they are equivalent to pornography. Whether a scene is written or filmed is immaterial if the content is exactly the same.

I understand that some romance publishers rate their novels on a scale so that a reader can choose just how explicit the sex scenes will be. All the way from innocent romance to steamy detailed explicit sex. At one end of the spectrum is romance; at the other end is porn.

 

[Joie_de_Vivre]

Romance novels are not porn at all. The thing people need to realize is that adults don’t want to only read g rated books and watch g rated movies. If a book or movie describes a lovemaking scene it does not always equate to pornography which is explicit and graphic. Showing a couple kidding and even rolling covered in the sheets does not equal pornography in my opinion.

They aren’t as graphic about the sexual act itself because that isn’t what gets women off, that said they are highly sexual.

Perhaps if men actually bothered to satisfy women during sex women might read less erotica and we wouldn’t have most women faking orgasms at least some of the time.

 

[andrewstx]

Yet another reason to avoid walllmart

 

[RPRPsych]

They aren’t as graphic about the sexual act itself because that isn’t what gets women off, that said they are highly sexual.

Perhaps if men actually bothered to satisfy women during sex women might read less erotica and we wouldn’t have most women faking orgasms at least some of the time.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

 

[Joie_de_Vivre]

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

No, but three lefts do.

It’s a symptom of historic and continuing neglect of women’s sexual desires, they have to perform for men, but really, for many if they want sexual enjoyment they have to do it themselves (or other women).

 

[RPRPsych]

No, but three lefts do.

It’s a symptom of historic and continuing neglect of women’s sexual desires, they have to perform for men, but really, for many if they want sexual enjoyment they have to do it themselves (or other women).

By your logic, pornography can be justified using the logic that the men consuming it aren’t having their sexual desires satisfied by women.

I’m not convinced. Especially since recent works on sex before the “sexual revolution” suggest that women have it worse now. The “cult of sex”, the search for “the perfect orgasm” or “the perfect penis” (I’m not trying to be shocking; this is the title of a paper on male sexual dysfunction in a scientific journal), has left a trail of sexual frustration and dysfunction in its wake.

 

[Mary_Gail_36]

Romance novels are not porn at all. The thing people need to realize is that adults don’t want to only read g rated books and watch g rated movies. If a book or movie describes a lovemaking scene it does not always equate to pornography which is explicit and graphic. Showing a couple kidding and even rolling covered in the sheets does not equal pornography in my opinion.

Some of the scenes in some of the romance novels are pretty graphic though. They are marketed as romance, but could definitely be marketed as erotica.

I used to read them. Perhaps they were just a tiny bit more “clean” because of the euphemisms instead of biological terms.

And I used to be able to check them out of the library no questions asked in high school.

 

[Javan]

I started reading Harlequin books when I was 11 or 12 years old, mostly due to the fact that I had a neighbor with a subscription who would only read them once and then get rid of them (I suppose to avoid having a massive pile of the things).

For the most part, once I became familiar with the euphemisms for breasts and genitalia, I started to skip over the sex scenes, as I found them rather cringe worthy. Even with puberty being in full swing and my hormones going nuts, I didn’t really find them sexually exciting.