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Mantastic Voyage: Guys And Romance
I've yet to locate the Psychology Today study the stat's supposed to have come from. But based on the anecdotal evidence I've gleaned from romance readers, I can pretty unequivocally state that partners of chicks who read romance ain't complaining. Or, if I may dance upon the edges of TMI and quote my husband's comment online to erotic romance superstar Emma Holly after his reading a super-hot excerpt from her new book, "Kissing Midnight..."
"I, and husbands everywhere, really appreciate what you do for us."
To which viewer Lisa K replied, "...I really think most men think like you do but you're sure the first one I've ever heard admitting it. *snicker*"
LisaK and many of we romance readers support guys like my husband who appreciate how much their women dig reading romance, not just because their romance lovers "share the love," but because they're pleased their women are empowered by the reading and often attendant fantasizing experiences.
However, if we assume guys want only the some some that's the end product of the romance-reading equation, maybe we're doing them a disservice, especially because guys are capable of assimilating intimacy and sensual emotions in ways other than physical, perhaps even through -- brace yourself -- reading.
Guys? Reading romance books? That's an affirmative hell yeah, and among men the escapist pastime's up, with 22% of ‘em joining the ranks of those buying the largest chunk of genre fiction sold. Since I'm always happy to recruit for the home team, why not snap up some of these selections for the guys you know, love or hope to love?
"Defender" and "Hotshot ," from Catherine Mann's Black Ops series. Mann's heroes are scientists, top-gun flyers, war heroes and good guys with rough pasts. Black Ops books are heavy on suspense, exciting military tech and maneuvers - and equally emotionally and sensually intense on the down-to-earth relationship story front.
If your lovah is ready to graduate to a little spicier read - perhaps one you might read together -- hand him some Tori Carrington, and be sure to tell him that Tori's the husband and wife writing team of Tony and Lori Karayianni! Their upcoming "Branded (Harlequin Blaze #471) " is down-home sexy, and "A Few Good Men (Harlequin Blaze Series #445) " is a kind of classic tribute to our military heroes and the women they love. Expect both the suspenseful story and the sensuality to hold his interest.
The race-car driver heroes of Erin McCarthy's "Flat Out Sexy," and "Hard and Fast " know their ways around a track and women. And like most guys, they really do know how to step up to the relationship plate when they meet the "right one." These are great books when your fave guy friend's on his way to more erotic romantic reading.
And howza' ‘bout trying some of the, no kidding, hottest sex I've read in ages wrapped in a fun and very contemporary love story that says "Guys will Get This!" in a million ways?" Grab a copy of Victoria Dahl's "Start Me Up ," and get you and your guy someplace cozy to meet mechanic Lori Love and the absent-minded genius architect with whom she's acting out her erotic romance novel fantasies - amid a suspenseful mystery, of course.
Altruistic caring about guys' needs aside, I'd like you to consider my suggestions akin to instruction manuals for men in how to understand what fantasies turn on women, hoping the some-some equation works in reverse and that when our guys read romance it'll make them remember why they fell in love with us and want to express sexually the emotional intimacy of our relational bond.
Of course, we also could be happy if men simply read romance and find their days just a little more fulfilling for the experience.
Let's go with that. *snicker*
What romance/s would you recommend guys read? Why do you think the number of men reading romances is increasing?
Michelle Buonfiglio writes about romance fiction and pop culture daily at Romance: B(u)y the Book (RBTB)
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I think a guy that only might like romance would like Nicholas Sparks books, they're very realistic and not all have happy endings plus they're written by a guy. When I suggest books to my male reader friends a lot of them scoff at the ones written by women and I personally prefer women writers over men and since women are from Venus and men are from Mars, it just makes sense that women understand the writing from a female perspective and men from a male perspective.
You've seen "the notebook" right?!
That's too sappy for me, half the women I know. Just cause a guy wrote it doesn't mean it translates well to other guys. My mother loves his books. But me (big shrug) I'd rather go to the dentist, less painful.
I've always found it interesting how many romance writers, are using a non de plume. Ever wonder how many are secretly male authors?
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TB wrote: I've always found it interesting how many romance writers, are using a non de plume. Ever wonder how many are secretly male authors?
That's funny...I wonder.
'Sparks'....I doubt a guy would read his books...
I love the writer, Silas House...The only male I've read that can write a wonderful woman's perspective. He can touch her spirit. I don't know how he does it.
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I read and write romance, so I'm one of those very special men who have enjoyed romance. I currently write for Harlequin African-American line and am one of two male authors who write for the Harlequin Kimani line. Harlequin has several other male authors among which is Ken Casper who writes for Superromance and the Nascar line and is one of my favorite authors. I read from a variety of romance, but am drawn to romantic suspense and those books that focus on traditionally male careers as well as romances set in the American West. I love Suzanne Brockman, Catherine Mann, Lindsay McKenna, Nora Roberts/J.D.Robb, Tami Hoag, Karen Rose, Allison Brennen and the list goes on. However, that doesn't mean I do enjoy the occasional passion of authors Like Kate Hardy, Brenda Jackson, Carol Mortimer etc...
And I know of severl male readers who hang out on the eharlequin.com community where I'm a host.
Wayne
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