Vilageidiotx

I hate modern romance fiction

@Vilageidiotx Define terrible then, if everyone does it...

@Zurnt

All I mean is that lust and conscious morality don't always see eye to eye. People might consciously recognize that rape-fantasies are awful, but they can't help but be turned on by them. I mean, you figure for thousands of years the very idea of lustful sexuality was considered amoral, but we all know people were still grinding genitals in back-alleys and hay-stacks across the world. Didn't mean they were all libertines - plenty would have agreed that extra-marital screwing was bad, but they did it anyway.

So fast forward to now, where we all agree rape is a traumatic thing that shouldn't be treated lightly. Doesn't mean there isn't people fantasizing about. And those people fantasizing will mostly agree rape is a horrible thing. They just diddle themselves, feel dirty, and move on.

That was bad grammar on my part. I didn't mean that the healthy relationship was boring, but to only keep writing healthy relationships would be boring.

@Zurnt

Doesn't have to be. More ways to make shit interesting. A skydiving orgy would be pretty bad-ass.

I hate modern romance fiction

I don't see what's wrong with people of that generation carrying over their power-play fetishes for the reading pleasure of other members of their generation. It's just like you said, most young people know that these stories are bad and weird, but they're not the target audience.

Just let them have their cheap sex books until they die, and then the next generation can make fun of how our romance books have "couples" and "love" involved.

@Zurnt

Is it dying off though? Fifty Shades and Twilight get into some weird shit. It might be that the old book-factories like Harlequin will die off, but there doesn't seem to be a romance industry based on healthy relationships coming up to replace it.

I suppose it is human nature in some sense. Might be unavoidable because really, we're all awful people in some way. Do and say good things in the light of day, masturbate furiously to horrible shit when the sun goes down.

I hate modern romance fiction

I honestly thing the audience is the same as the authors who typically write them: middle aged women who are bored with their husbands/sex lives.

@Taaj

And they read the righteous fuck out of them. Book-porn for little old ladies and angsty supernatural books for teenagers seem to dominate the industry.

tfw

Watch the Ken Burns docs. Those are pretty good. I've been using them as back-ground noise to sleep by.

I hate modern romance fiction

And furthermore, they are usually badly written.

Any of the rest of you guys, pick up a cheap romance novel next time you are at a grocery store or wal-mart. One of those ones with an attractive couple, the guy wearing no shirt, and both of them dressed up in some stereotypical costume. Flip through it. If you doubt your own writing ability, that is all it will take to make you feel better.

Though seriously, I had took a writing class years ago where the teacher explained to us how those chain-produced romance novels work. They send you a packet that tells you what to write and how to write it. It's color-by-numbers literature. She said that a lot of semi-famous authors write those under assumed names as a way to collect some extra cash.

pregnant

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As I recall she only got pregnant after she was stabbed and sperm in her digestive tract got into her uterus, and then needed medical help to deliver the baby and survive future periods?

stab wounds sometimes require medical attention so i don't think you have an excuse here

@Antarctic Termite

Interesting.

Did I ever tell you guys about the pig my great grandpa owned that was born without an asshole? Because I imagine the doctors would have no other choice but to go at barbie-crotch roughly the same way my great grandpa went at that pig. That is, a knife and a rough idea where the hole needs to be.

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My father is concerned that I am "conforming to the world"

just remind them that jesus hung out with prostitutes

and then go hang out with prostitutes

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@Vilageidiotx

There is a difference between being a dick and expressing a different opinion though. I'm sure you're aware, but I feel the need to make that distinction.

Agreed on everything else though. I hate having to watch my words less I hurt someone's feelings. And no, I think we should be nicer as a culture. I'm not saying go around being mean and screw everyone else, but I'm mainly referring to the instances of someone being butthurt because someone said something they didn't particularly like, like the waitress who got fired because she labeled her table as a "black couple" when they didn't have table numbers.

@FantasyChic

Yeh that one is an extreme I agree, but when not dealing with the extremes it is always wise to be aware that wherever you draw the line isn't the same as where others draw the line. It is better to accept that what you say can have consequences with other people than it is to tell everybody that where you draw the line is the only place the line should ever be drawn. Because at the end of the day, you can't change other people's opinions, and shooting yourself in the foot all the time isn't going to do you any good in the long run.

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