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Men after finding out what women's romance novels are actually like: (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by King@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] NaibofTabr 120 points 1 week ago (2 children)

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’ve said that to my wife before “I prefer pictures, you prefer words, but at the end of the day, they’re both porn”

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But it sure is difficult to furiously rub our clits with our right hand while holding a book in our left hand.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago

Then use the right hand 🤦‍♀️

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every day I get a reminder that it's weird I use my off hand.

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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Me, a H-VN enjoyer: Why not both?

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

[–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The other day my wife was watching YouTube on the TV while I was doing some chores. Turns on a video titled something like “The boy love Trump administration chart - with evidence.”

The narrator begins, “First I have to make it clear, Trump is an OMEGA.”

And I’m like, “What the hell is an Omega?”

And my wife just slips in casually, “Oh it’s a common boy love term that means a tough guy who can get pregnant.”

Women do not fuck around when cooking up smut.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

That's a good video I highly recommend part 2

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

I had to read that a few times to fully process it. Then I realized that's the back story for Kronar in Oglaf: https://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. In some weird way, they are the equivalent to pornography.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

That is because they are.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

As a young man I worked in a bookstore and when I discovered the amount of smut in romance novels it was pretty shocking.

Then I read the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

I was not prepared for that.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

That one will leave you with some memories for sure.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What happens in claiming the sleeping beauty

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lots of bdsm.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see.....

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You really don't. Whatever you are imagining, it's more than that.

Now imagine reading it as a 19-year old who grew up without the internet.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Full of unrealistic unicorn men and women.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What are they like? Are they all like Gray's Anatomy? (or whatever that book is named that's about fake S&M and rape fantasies)

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

whatever that book is named that’s about fake S&M and rape fantasies)

yes. but with more interspecies monster sex.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because they have bigger members orrrr?

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look, werewolves are just hot.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once you pop, you just can't stop 🤪

[–] de_lancre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Once you knot

Fixed it for you, champ

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Because they have whatever the author wants them to.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Haha, 50 Shades of Grey. Grey's Anatomy is a TV series, a drama about surgical interns and their supervisors.

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[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A fair amount of them read like uncomfortably graphic descriptions of a 13 year old girl's idea of sex.

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[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Where are you going? The vicar won't be home for hours...

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (9 children)

please stop using reddit as your image host.

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[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

All it is is chat GPT levels of synapsis from the latest porn with a little "make sure doesn't look like plagiarism" rubbed on it.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Explanation please.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Romance books are known for being filthy.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

like "french kissing through her anus" filthy.

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

“…as he thrust his purple-helmeted warrior into her quivering mound of love pudding…”

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the fuck.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

that's what she said.

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Minimum

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I think they're using "filthy" in the puritan way, basically meaning they contain words of sex

Sarcastic Gasp™

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wish the libraries Libby app had a 'no romance novels' filter option. It has gotten to the point where I am avoiding female writers just of avoid the inevitable romance trops creeping in.

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