[quote=flyer]Concerning Romance novels–the numbers speak for themselves. Women, primarily, are buying them by the billions. That definitely tells us something about the state of relationships in our society, and, it’s also a great business opportunity.

Realize everyone defines love, lust, and relationships differently–and drama is definitely a natural part of the whole package–wouldn’t have it any other way. As long as the relationship works for the people involved–that’s all that matters.[/quote]

Much of the “romance” genre (the bodice ripper types) is the female equivalent of pornography. Women read it surreptitiously, don’t care about the plot, characters are ridiculously 2 dimensional. Not talking about all of it – but if Fabio (or his current equivalent) is on the cover, women aren’t reading it for the nuanced character development. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And the numbers do speak for themselves, but what are they saying?? The secretaries at work used to have piles of them that they passed around . . .