Reply #434: the poster said romance is female porn

[seabeyond]

i started hearing this about a decade ago. it seemed to be the position for men to validate their porn. over last decade reading many different books and hearing this said, i realized, romance is not porn. romance novels, even with explixit sex scenes is no more the a pg or r rated movies depending on the author. some have no sex. some have implied sex. some have a page or two of description one or two times. and some has 3, 4 page description a couple two three times. that would be r rated. the sex scenes are no more or less than male authors like childs, koontz or sanford. child, koontz and sanford are not considered porn. they are called mysteries.

then there is erotic, as you say, that is all about the sex and very little to the story or plot. that would be more the porn that men keep saying romance novels are.

posters keep saying i must not know the difference, as they keep repeating the exact thing that i say. i read sci fi, mystery, just plain fiction and romance and it is all the same for the most part.