Done right, romance has a place, done wrong, it should be left out. The distinction? A very fine line, hard to see, harder yet to tread upon without crossing.

Considering the guild rules (due to google ads, we believe) concerning descriptive attempts at reproduction, romance can in some ways be harder to portray without blacking out bits or something like that. But in other ways it can be easier because of the same reasons. Rather than the descriptions like "He [i][redacted][/i] her [i][redacted][/i]", you might find ways to describe it without providing any against reasonable policy detail. After all, despite what some (simpler males especially) think, romance != Sex. There are a lot of ways to describe romance that do not require any form of blackout.

Like one style we've heard about a faction in a specific tabletop RP system... "you can't spell necromancer without romance". Using blackout level details there is doubly bad. Not only would it mean things normally done in a blackout, but it would quite probably involve necrophilia as well, which most civilized societies frown upon. 

We think it would be fairly interesting to have a character of ours be part of a well-crafted romance. Especially since those characters generally turn out to be pretty inept socially. But if it would not add much to the story, we'd rather avoid such than to ruin it by including it.