Erotic Romance Novels For Women Are Huge
USA Today reports that the new ranges of women’s erotic romance novels are going great guns. Apparently growth has been in the “double digits” (snigger, chortle, snort).
This is actually not a new trend, it’s just that the media has started to pay attention. Erotic romance novels have been on the market for over a decade, with the Black Lace series being one of the oldest and most popular.
Perhaps the big change is that romance stalwart Mills and Boon and Harlequin have jumped on the bandwagon.
In these distinctly non-Fabio novels the heroines will happily shag anyone if they feel like it… but there’s plenty of scope for a nice bit of romance as well.
And all those euphemisms for sex like “his throbbing manhood” and “her luscious cleft” are going by the wayside.
Actually, note to self: Use the phrase “her luscious cleft” in next sex story. Cleft is such a cool word.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:02 am
[...] Growth in Erotic Fiction For Women The other “news” that enthralled mainstream journalists was the idea that erotic fiction for women was selling like lubricant at an anal sex convention. Or hotcakes. Probably the latter, actually. The big romance companies like Mills and Boon started to bring out new lines featuring explicit sex. Meanwhile, online publishing company Ellora’s Cave went great guns, no doubt due to the lovely publicity from said articles. Erotic romance novels for women are huge. Romance erotica contains (gasp!) sex! [...]