My husband likes to tell a story from his college years: he was working in data entry, next to a woman with a copy of Anne Rice’s erotic novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty sitting on her desk. When a supervisor walked by and noticed it, she snapped it up, saying, “This is a romance novel? Hey, let’s look for one of the good parts!” Then she started flipping through the pages. Finding page after page of S&M scenarios and graphic sexual activity, she quickly put the book back down. “Oh,” she said, visibly embarrassed, “it’s all good parts.”
That doesn’t apply to most romance novels, though. Erotica designed around women’s tastes is more often about context, the slow build, and servicing a variety of fantasies besides the obvious sexual...
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