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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That is true that it is many more women then men who read the type of romance as sold by Harlequin. An aunt of my wife is well into Mills & Boon which is like the UK version of Harlequin.
But getting off of romance, what else do women enjoy reading that men might not read nearly as much?
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I don't want to derail the thread too much--the topic is about women's preferences in erotica/romance, and I've seen that shoved aside by men too many times to be happy with "well, what *else* do you like to read?"
There's a category of mainstream novels that are marketed to, and mostly bought by, women; I don't know what to call them. Supermarket novels often with cutout sections on the front cover; supernatural-horror-esque novels. (VC Andrews, and things with fangs on the cover. I don't read them. Anymore. Possibly because they often don't have non-DRM'd ebook formats, possibly because I'd rather be reading erotica or sci-fi, and now both of those are available in large enough quantities that I don't run out.)
Parenting books. Homemaker books. Which get annoyingly cliched, but the market is still there.
Most of the publishing market is by men, for men, and women are supposed to adapt their interests inside the set of what men are writing for each other. Romance, and now erotica, are the only literary genres that women's preferences have a strong influence on.