So I’ll be honest I started reading erotica when I was 12, thanks wattpad. Obviously I had no business doing that. However none that I’m older I’m able to recognize that a lot of romance books today are only popular because of the sex in them and not the plot. The plots are absolutely horrible. For example I once saw a dark romance book in which the mmc slaughtered the family of the fmc yet he smiled at her and asked if she was OK and of course she fell for him. Everyone in the comments was just swooning over it too.
It’s genuinely concerning. There’s definitely layers to this but woman should not be finding men who assualt, yell, cheat, or abuse the fmc as romantic. I feel like calling it dark romance is just a disservice to dark romance. There is nothing romancing about someone putting a gun inside your vagina.
I used to live reading romance books. But I prefer to read manwhas and romance Mangas now. Or I’ll just read non-fiction.
These types of books are very popular on TikTok and I have seen a few in bookstores as a result of that internet popularity.
I don’t mind people reading them as long as there is an awareness that this is purely fiction and not what a healthy relationship should be. I feel that for the most part the majority of readers understand that and only a very small minority don’t.
There’s a genre out there for everybody no matter how niche or weird it may be. There’s only issues when people begin blending reality and fiction. I think in my entire life I have only seen that once.
But honestly, it’s not just books that have seen an increasing popularity in that type of content. I feel that HBO is quite notorious for it too. I’m curious to see if this is a fad or something more long term.