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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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There are tons and tons of romances with no sex! If you don't mind lots and lots of angst, one of my favorites is
Remembrance by Jude Devereux.
One of my favorite romances has 1 sex scene but a ton of sexual tension:
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I have read many romances with no sex in them. All Inspirational romances don't have that in them. YA Romances definitely don't have that in them and there are alot of romance authors out there that write clean romances or the sex happens as you said off the page. The older regencies are one to come to mind not just Heyer. If you google clean romances you will find more titles that aren't so ancient. Lyn Kurland is another that comes to mind.
All Nascar Harlequins don't have sex in them. NASCAR won't allow it or Drinking or Crashing.  Being a NASCAR fan I found that rather disappointing the no crashing that is...  |
I've read a few of the NASCAR themed romances - I wondered about that!
