Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the romance genre is such that they are charmed by the novelty of the two protagonists calling each other by their surnames. This is to me immensely sweet, like a video of a baby having their first taste of ice cream or kimchi and falling into paroxysms of elation. I am happy for everyone who is experiencing romance genre conventions for the very first time…
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When I started reading romance novels, about twelve years ago, I asked for recommendations and only read the romance novels that people told me were the best ones out there. This was great as a reading project — some of those early authors remain some of my faves today! — but gave me a skewed sense of the proportion of novels in the genre I should expect to truly excel. Now that I am more conversant in the genre, and reading new releases as they come out, I’m encountering a higher proportion of mediocre books. In particular, I have been feeling…
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Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Moderation, Elaine Castillo
So Elaine Castillo is a literary fiction writer (who, I believe, has written a bunch of fanfiction in her life; I can just sense it; I know she has), and this installment of Anatomy of a Sex Scene draws on her second novel, Moderation. I’m going out on a leetle bit of a limb here: This sex scene isn’t a scene where the two characters have sex. TWIST, I’m full of surprises. Rather, it’s a scene where our protagonist, Girlie, has a sudden, very sharp fantasy about sex. I thought the writer did a remarkably good job with it, enough…
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