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Originally Posted by Blossom
It's not the same I can talk about sci-fi publicly. Romance is the taboo subject. "Oh my god You read those trashy novels!" "There just as bad as porn!" "I thought you was a good girl." "You was raised better than that." "You're poor husband!" These are just some quotes I've gotten over the years from people.
I cringe every time I'm in a group and they ask what books are you reading.
Then there was that one time my sister started reading my Lori Foster book out loud in front of everyone to prove I was a pervert. I'd never been so mortified. The book just happen to start off very sexy.
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So... based on your more recent posts I'm going to take a bit of a gamble here and boldly state that the problem isn't actually the genre or how "outsiders" see it. The problem is that certain members of your friends and family have a negative opinion about something you enjoy, and have decided that it's okay for them to state their opinions in ways that hurt your feelings and humiliate you in front of other friends and family.
That, my friend, is an entirely different problem, and has nothing to do with the direction the genre is going. It has to do with the people around you, and how they choose to treat you.