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King@sh.itjust.works to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Men after finding out what women's romance novels are actually like:

i.redd.it

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Men after finding out what women's romance novels are actually like:

i.redd.it

King@sh.itjust.works to memes@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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    deleted by creator

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    All it is is chat GPT levels of synapsis from the latest porn with a little “make sure doesn’t look like plagiarism” rubbed on it.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      I mean, there are only so many ways to describe genitals 🤷‍♂️

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        life finds a way :)

      • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world
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        You would think so, and yet, that '62 Chardonnay isn’t going to uncork itself grandma thought as she surreptitiously grabbed her favorite battery operated bottle opener and locked the door.

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    The other day my wife was watching YouTube on the TV while I was doing some chores. Turns on a video titled something like “The boy love Trump administration chart - with evidence.”

    The narrator begins, “First I have to make it clear, Trump is an OMEGA.”

    And I’m like, “What the hell is an Omega?”

    And my wife just slips in casually, “Oh it’s a common boy love term that means a tough guy who can get pregnant.”

    Women do not fuck around when cooking up smut.

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      I had to read that a few times to fully process it. Then I realized that’s the back story for Kronar in Oglaf: https://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/

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      I’ve said that to my wife before “I prefer pictures, you prefer words, but at the end of the day, they’re both porn”

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        But it sure is difficult to furiously rub our clits with our right hand while holding a book in our left hand.

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          Every day I get a reminder that it’s weird I use my off hand.

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            You use your non-dominant hand to rub your clit? Sounds like a smart survival skill. Ready to flee the scene & jump right back into your daily responsibilities 😄

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        Me, a H-VN enjoyer: Why not both?

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    I wish the libraries Libby app had a ‘no romance novels’ filter option. It has gotten to the point where I am avoiding female writers just of avoid the inevitable romance trops creeping in.

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      What I don’t get is why SciFi books even written by men have to have some form of love interest. Can’t we field a story that doesn’t have some major component wrapped around saving or recripocating some mate/potential mate?

      You almost have to go to the YA section to find a story that doesn’t have some corny, half assed love conflict.

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      Women authors are such depraved pervertesses.

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      Try reading what you write. Just to* avoid, tropes*

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        You can’t tell me what to do. You’re not my real sin tax checker.

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    As a young man I worked in a bookstore and when I discovered the amount of smut in romance novels it was pretty shocking.

    Then I read the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

    I was not prepared for that.

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      What happens in claiming the sleeping beauty

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        Really bad bdsm, at that. I was curious what it would be like, considering anne rice wrote all the vampire novels that featured sex gods before meyer even had her wet dream, and it was just boringly blase ‘girl gets told what to do while naked in front of strangers and is told she is beautiful for it and learns to love it.’

      • Let's Go 2 the Mall! ❌👑@lemmy.world
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        lots of bdsm.

        • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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          I see…

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            You really don’t. Whatever you are imagining, it’s more than that.

            Now imagine reading it as a 19-year old who grew up without the internet.

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      Now I am curious.

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      That one will leave you with some memories for sure.

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    Yes. In some weird way, they are the equivalent to pornography.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      That is because they are.

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    Full of unrealistic unicorn men and women.

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    What are they like? Are they all like Gray’s Anatomy? (or whatever that book is named that’s about fake S&M and rape fantasies)

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      Haha, 50 Shades of Grey. Grey’s Anatomy is a TV series, a drama about surgical interns and their supervisors.

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        Thank you! I knew I was mis-remembering something. Now… what if they added werewolves to either? Would that make it more romantic?

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          Shades is already a Twilight fanfic with the serial numbers filed off. Werewolves were removed.

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            And Twilight was a Harry Potter fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, weirdly enough.

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      A fair amount of them read like uncomfortably graphic descriptions of a 13 year old girl’s idea of sex.

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        Are they written by men, for women?

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          Nope. Usually by women.

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      Graphic sexual stories for the purpose of getting women off.

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        Then women should love manhwas, right? Those are literally graphical.

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      whatever that book is named that’s about fake S&M and rape fantasies)

      yes. but with more interspecies monster sex.

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        Because they have bigger members orrrr?

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          Look, werewolves are just hot.

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            It’s all the fur. Hard to have that level of energy output without building up a lot of waste heat, and it’s hard to void said waste heat when you’re insulated.

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              Once you pop, you just can’t stop 🤪

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                Once you knot

                Fixed it for you, champ

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          Because they have whatever the author wants them to.

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    Explanation please.

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      Romance books are known for being filthy.

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        How?

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          I think they’re using “filthy” in the puritan way, basically meaning they contain words of sex

          Sarcastic Gasp™

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          like “french kissing through her anus” filthy.

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            “…as he thrust his purple-helmeted warrior into her quivering mound of love pudding…”

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            What the fuck.

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              that’s what she said.

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            Minimum

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    Where are you going? The vicar won’t be home for hours…

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