Honestly, it’s a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. What draws readers to erotic romance?
I believe the only difference between an erotic romance and a sensual romance is not only the degree of heat in the sex scenes it the overall lustful feeling of the book.
Sensual romances seduce you slowly pulling on the emotional strings that are bound to your heart. It’s like you enjoy the reading it’s fun, witty, and emotional and before you know it you are in love with both the hero and heroine.
Now, erotic romances are a whole other beast. They are like a big hot burst of lust. It blasts you in the face and revs your engine even though your head tells you that it’s going too quick. That you need to slow down….No no no….erotic romance ain’t having it. Done right, it’s like a roller coaster ride that starts strong and ends the same way, leaving you with a feeling of ‘damn can I ride again!’
So for me, I believe that we, romance readers and writers, gravitate to erotic romance because of the wild ride we know it will take us on. There are no brakes. Usually our hearts are out of control and our breath is trapped in our chest as great authors take us for the ride of our lives. Man I hope I’m one of those authors!
So, it’s your turn to tell everyone why you read erotic romance. Make sure to include who got you hooked on this guilty pleasure. For me it was Sherri L. King. I think that was the first erotic romance I read almost three years ago…and I haven’t looked back since.
Leila Brown is an erotic romance author with over 10 books published with Cobblestone Press and Changeling Press. Check out her new release, Candle Magick, in the newly released Changeling Press anthology Masquerade. Website: www.leilabrown.com Blog: leilabrown.blogspot.com
I read erotic romance to escape my current reality of the passion I am missing in my life. My husband away in Iraq and for not to have sex for 15 month period time can be very stressful so I look to my paranormal romance books! =) I love reading the passion and fire in those books and actually have learned a few things from it and can’t wait to try it out on hubby when he returns lol!
Well Armywife718, I hear ya. My hubby is constantly out of town for his job. It can make life really lonely. Books are my escape. I usually read when my son goes to sleep. Well I read or I write. But either way I keep my mind off the fact that I am in ‘our’ bed by ‘my’self.
Yea it can get lonely at times and this separation isn’t considered ‘voluntarily’ if you know what I mean lol. I am anxiously waiting to read Andre story from the ‘Stormy Weather Series’ and am not sure If I can hold out any longer!!! *pants… need 2 read about sexyyyyyy Andre.. drops out my cpu chair* **Sighs** I have a list of pre-order books waiting to get released to keep me entertained until June (that’s when my husband comes back home from Iraq) We don’t have any kids yet and I need good entertainment, so what else but to read hot paranormal romances to keep the fire going!! *batts lashes*.. Now I am going to check out your website Ms. Brown and see your selections. Please keep writing so others may be entertained in our lonely despair! =)
I read erotic romance for the passion and the alpha males… to play in areas that in reality I would not really go to in real life. And while I really love the alpha males and wish there were more real ones out there I know that I would be a huge challenge to one….And then passion that you want to have.. you know the down and dirty, hot and sweaty sex…. ah yes. Of course for me my erotic still has to have the romance. I want characters that I can love, passion that I can feel, and a plot that I can’t put down.
As for writers that I like…. that is hard… I like Lora Leigh, Shayla Black, Shasha White, Maya Banks, and others that I am forgetting right now… My first erotic romance writer is Susan Johnson… back when she was just considered really racy in the romance genre…. she was always a little ahead of her time…
I read it as an escape, as a fantasy, as a means to an end. I need it, crave it…the passion, the heat, the hunger of hero for heroine.
It’s also why I write it.
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