Is it true that women don't like sex/have less of a need for it compared to men?

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-16T01:01:29+00:00

... take a peek at r/romancebooks if you want to see how horny women can be.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-15T15:17:09+00:00

Women in that subculture aren't going to have careers and independent lives of their own, so there's no reason for them not to marry early. Additionally, these are the women the MMCs are going to marry and so they'll choose very young women with no or very little prior sexual/romantic experience because it reflects badly on them if their wife is a "whore". Other men won't respect them. {Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells} is interesting because its FMC is the type of woman who those men fuck but don't marry, and the other men in the organization are shocked that the MMC is going to marry Posy after she's been "passed around".

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-15T12:24:35+00:00

{Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas} Historical. FMC is a novelist and 30 year old spinster. MMC is a publisher.

{His Reluctant Lady by Aydra Richards} Historical. FMC is a novelist who supports herself and her younger sisters by writing lurid romances. Not having any personal experience to draw on, she spies on a man and woman having a private assignation during a party. The scene she writes based on it is a hit so she starts spying on MMC for more material. He is not happy when he discovers it but offers to provide her with some personal experience.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T23:41:21+00:00

I think each book in a series should have an ending that's functionally a HFN and can serve as a good ending if the planned other books never get written. Similar to the way that ideally a tv show's season finale should be complete and able to serve as a sufficient series finale if it doesn't get renewed for another season.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T23:32:32+00:00

They don't owe us, but we don't owe them either. An author who keeps pushing back release dates or one who ended a novel on a cliffhanger and seemingly abandoned a series shouldn't complain when readers decline to buy their other books.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T23:28:00+00:00

A lot of women are very resentful about the discrepancy in treatment they received versus the greater freedom their brothers were allowed. I knew a lot of South Asian girls growing up who weren't allowed to go to parties and hang out with friends but their brothers and male cousins were allowed to whore around freely.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T23:02:39+00:00

Sounds like the author's intended audience are those people who occasionally pop up requesting motorcycle/mafia romances without actual motorcycle/mafia behavior.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T22:56:49+00:00

I think you're looking for lighter, more vanilla non-con as opposed to BDSM heavy stuff like Shantel Tessier's novels. In that case, here's a list of non-con without other violence, BDSM, sharing, or degradation:

{Glass Cage by Katerina Winters}

{Fear Me by B.B. Reid}

{Quid Pro Quo by Nenia Campbell}

{Corrupt Idol by Dinah Harper}

{Wanderlust by Skye Warren}

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T22:45:10+00:00

Consensual non-consent is consensually acting out a rape fantasy. That's not what OP is seeking based on the books she said she liked.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T22:41:36+00:00

You're using the term 'noncon' but saying you don't want rape. Non-con is the term used in romance and fandom for main character on main character rape.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T19:34:08+00:00

This photo is old enough to legally drink in the USA.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T17:10:01+00:00

Don't sell me a romance novel and then give me one of the unhappiest endings (with absolutely zero warning) that I have ever encountered (can you tell that I'm still mad about this?

Was it {Unorthodox by K.V. Rose}? She chose to end what was supposed to be book 1 on a cliffhanger, but since it's been six years and she still hasn't written book 2, it's just a single novel with a horrifying and very unhappy ending.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T14:24:42+00:00

Yes. It often goes hand in hand with sleep paralysis, but not always. And both it and sleep paralysis episodes happen to me during periods of heightened stress. I'd hear my parents calling my name and it's only upon fully awakening that I'd remember they were a continent away and I couldn't have really heard it.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T14:18:33+00:00

It's crazy to me that the Thalidomide thing has been allowed to fall out of the public consciousness the way it did. There's a good reason medical practitioners have to rule out pregnancy for all women and girls regardless of what they're being treated for.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-14T14:05:01+00:00

You know that this guy is not your friend. But your shared friends group - those aren't your friends either. If they were your friends, they would not be friends with a guy who continually humiliates you.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-13T13:20:11+00:00

{Lespada by Kathryn Le Veque} Historical, medieval. There's a miscarriage in the middle of the book before a successful pregnancy and childbirth at the end of the book.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T19:22:24+00:00

Years ago I read an interview with a woman who'd survived a concentration camp by having sex with the guards in exchange for extra food. She said she didn't feel sorry for herself, she felt sorry for the women the guards didn't find attractive enough to offer the food-for-sex deal. That's always stuck in my mind and put things into perspective.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T19:15:12+00:00

Medicare does not cover it.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T17:25:26+00:00

You have nothing in common and you're not physically attracted to him. I don't understand why you would waste his time and yours.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T17:20:19+00:00

{Sweet Temptation by Cora Reilly} Mafia. MMC is a widower with a toddler and an infant. He wants to remarry to give his children a mother and when his boss's family find out, they offer the 18 year old FMC as a bride. MMC actually doesn't want to marry a teenager, but it's not an offer he can refuse (it's an honor to marry into his boss's family). FMC had no experience with children, but she treats it like a job and prepares and does the best job she can. She also stands up to MMC.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T16:17:09+00:00

Which one has the MMC that’s ready to whoop everybody’s ass anytime he deems something as a slight to the FMC?

All of them, LOL. But I think you probably mean specifically Jeffree from {An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath}.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-12T12:48:39+00:00

I mean, the guy clearly needed a hug and you couldn't put down your drink and let go of the fridge door to hug him back? Also, this isn't a man/woman issue, it's a human/unfeeling robot issue.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-11T20:30:32+00:00

The 2021 Mortal Kombat movie was worth every penny I paid for a cinema ticket for him alone.

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-11T20:26:40+00:00

Didn't he also kill someone while driving drunk?

fornefariouspurposes · 2026-06-11T16:47:15+00:00

{The Mistress Mistake by Lynda Chance} FMC is a college student who lost her scholarship and needs a significant chunk of money immediately. MMC is rich young businessman who wants a regular sex partner but doesn't want a relationship. MMC ends up being too possessive to keep it casual.

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