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Ten Reasons Why Women Love Romance Novels

May 12th, 2009 | About 

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5 Reasons why the unenlightened think we love romance novels:

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10. We're bored and have nothing better to do. This explains why a good portion of us read in lines, just before the lights go off in a theater, between meetings, before class, and during our commute... because we have time to spare.

09. We don't have to think when we read romance! Great! Let's leave our brains at home because everybody knows romance novels are right up there with gossip, soap operas, and fashion and celebrity magazines.

08. Secretly, we love the trashy cover art. Clinches and clutches and heaving bosoms really appeal to us. Who doesn't love toting embarrassingly bulging mantitty in her purse?

07. We love romance because it's petticoat porn. (What and men don't like watching poorly filmed flicks off the internet? At least ours is intellectual- it's literature!)

06. Better yet, on top of loving it for porn we also love it because we have no sex life. This is our only way to experience sex... ie vicariously through fictional characters. Right... as if any woman couldn't go into any bar and ask any man if he wanted to go home with her and he wouldn't say yes.

Now for 5 real reasons to love romance novels:

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05. Truly, we love romance because it's emotional porn. Two hanky reads anyone? Passes out tissues.

04. Happily Ever Afters. We love a great ending and knowing that no matter how many troubles and problems seem to mount up eventually they're solved and go away.

03. Variety. There's a romance out there for everyone. Many of us develop preferences and seek out stories that cater to them.

02. The heroine. She's everything we want to be or admire in others with the exception of the Too Stupid to Live Heroines.

And the number one reason women love romance novels is:

01. The hero... because we can fall a little bit in love with him every time we open a book to read.

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5 comments ↓
#1 Meghan on 05.12.09 at 9:28 am

Wonderful post! It’s true, too. I think many who read romance are in committed relationships, but even though I have a constant crush on my fiance, romance novels are a completely harmless way to experience that thrill of new love again.

#2 Keira on 05.12.09 at 9:32 am

Ooo I agree comepletely! Additionally that should totally be a bonus reason: Experience New Love Over and Over Again!

#3 Amy on 05.12.09 at 3:07 pm

Seriously, who wants to be depressed over and over again by the pick of the month in Oprah’s bookclub? Is she even doing that anymore?

Even better — I read romance because I LOVE romance. I love the chase, the falling in love, the getting past imperfections and finding the true heart of that someone special. And, yeah, I’m even happily in love!

#4 Keira on 05.13.09 at 7:53 am

I know I don’t! I much prefer my reading over Oprahs.

#5 Carolyn Brown on 09.16.09 at 7:46 am

Hi y’all!
I’m printing these reasons and hanging them above my computer to read while I write those romances you all love to read. I’m also putting them into the blog space on my website today! It’s a GREAT blog! Thanks for the post!
Carolyn Brown

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