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The main issue I have with 'romance' books is the apparent requirement for them to include sex. Sex is not romance, romance is not sex. Lust is not the same as love, and romance is (should be?) about love, not lust.
Something could be extremely romantic without anybody every removing a single item of clothing, or be essentially pornographic without being slightly romantic.
I edged into romance from crime novels with JD Robb (Nora Roberts), and frankly none of them would have suffered if the sex scenes had simply been removed.
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