Sep 23, 2023
my favorite thing in Romance Discourse is the thing where people are like "I've had Enough of Smut, it feels like all Smutty Scenes are just Filler, and I Want Real Emotion, Why Are There So Many Pointless Smut Scenes"
and I'm like "I really don't feel like I read a lot of pointless sex scenes, am I just weird"
and then these people list the books they read and it's all like "Breeding the Housemaid", "Fill 'Er Up", "Manny's Bi Awakening"
#romance novel blogging#and to be clear lol first off i made those titles up and second it is FINE if you like them#i've def read some and enjoyed them#but like idk if all you read is 120-page KU novels that are MEANT to be 80% sex#it's truly unfair to act like the genre as a whole is this cesspool of unnecessary sex scenes#and to be clear i actually think the POINT of those books is sex so like... the sex isn't unnecessary there either?#idk it smacks of puritanical bullshit to me#if i was to compile an average out of the hundreds of romance novels i've read across many subgenres#and of many page lengths#i would hazard a guess that they max out at 3-4 sex scenes#which in a book that's usually 300-400 pages#is not a fuckton of page time#and if anything trad publishing is going away from more sex on the page#unfortunately...........#ofc in response indie is giving people what they want (more sex) and becoming hotter and hotter#HOWEVER.#if all you read is super short indie freebies that are meant to titillate.........#yeah it'll be more sex heavy#additionally i think some of this comes from the fact that some readers are basically just reading KU contemporaries and freebies#which i get! books cost money!#it adds up#but this does mean your pool is even more limited#idk idk it just bugs
