When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the US, which correlates with an increased consumption of other digital media, like social media and streaming services.
The porn addicts on TikTok would disagree. Porn books are insanely popular and many people seem to only read those.
I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss all romance/romantic as porn. Some of them are well written with a touch of the forbidden for an elevated experience.
Not saying there aren’t bad pornographic books but dismissing a whole genre for some puritanical reason also seems ill fitted.
Of course! There are classy romances. However, my understanding is that a lot of these “romantasy” books are exploiting young audiences with graphic sex.
See: Bride