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Originally Posted by murraypaul
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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Have you tried something like the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters? Those are considered Romance and as far as I recall all the sex takes place off page.
I've read many Nora Roberts novels that I enjoy but oddly, I've never been able to get into the JD Robb books. I've tried several times and I always quit reading.