Thanks To Romance Novels, We're 'Having A Lot More Sex Than We Did When We Were 18'
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Women share how reading these steamy stories has changed their sex lives and marriages for the better.
Steamy romance novels — once purchased stealthily in supermarket checkout lanes — are having a renaissance of sorts. And women are reaping the benefits.
First, a bit of background: The genre has historically been regarded as a guilty pleasure, despite being one of the bestselling book categories, said Katie Shober, the woman behind the popular Beach Reads & Bubbly Instagram account.
Social media has helped remove some of the stigma around romance novels “by showing the world how many people are enthusiastically reading and loving these books,” Shober told HuffPost.
All of the buzz on TikTok’s BookTok and Instagram’s Bookstagram has broadened the popularity of romance and its many subgenres, like erotic-romance or smut and romantasy. These internet communities, big and small, have become places for female readers to unabashedly bond over their appreciation for the work of authors like Ana Huang, Tessa Bailey, Ali Hazelwood, Helen Hoang, Talia Hibbert, Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros and many others.
But what makes these books so appealing, particularly among female readers?
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