[ SECRET POST #3533 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3533 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Pregnancy and parenthood are less likely to be featured in a romance novel than in general (women's) fiction. Romance novels are about *romance.*

I don't get this secret at all. Does OP also avoid all novels that involve M/F couples who are pregnant and have kids if they aren't specifically romances?

[(Anonymous)]

It seems to me - and maybe this is off base and I'm reading stuff into OP that isn't there - that it's less an issue with stories explicitly dealing with pregnancy as a topic, and more that, for OP, M/F romances in general are intrinsically connected to romance? Like, the issue just pervades the whole genre for them?

[(Anonymous)]

But it doesn't. I can't say I've read a ton of romances but the ones I have read definitely do not involve pregnancy or babies.

[(Anonymous)]

What I mean is, maybe it's a situation where OP just can't get their mind of pregnancy when they're reading any M/F romantic plotline?

[meridian_rose]

I check the back of romance books and if the epilogue involves babies* the book goes back on the shelf/in the sale basket. As it stands, I rarely get to read romance novels. It's endemic in the genre.
*eta: because I don't want to read it not because I'm sad. I'm not only childfree but pretty much tokophobic.

[(Anonymous)]

Because a great majority of M/F romance ends in babies-ever-after.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm not sure if OP is talking standard published romance novels, or M/F fanfic. I don't have much experience reading the former, but babyfic seems to be its own sub-genre and is usually marked when it comes to fanfic. However, if they'd rather avoid the whole genre, that will work too, even if it does seem like a bit of overkill to me.