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An unscientific poll about romance

My writers’ group had a conversation recently about what kind of romance we like to read, sparked by a local author whose books are in the “clean and wholesome romance” section on Amazon. We discussed what that might entail, and decided it was the opposite of “dirty liberal atheist” romance.

Then, out of curiosity, I did a poll on Twitter and Facebook.

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My sample size was small (9 and 7, respectively), and there’s a good chance some of the same people voted on both of them. But still, 4 people (25%) prefer clean and wholesome and 12 (75%) prefer dirty liberal atheist, which is a thing I just made up. A couple people commented that they don’t specifically read romance but enjoy romantic subplots.

This is kinda pertinent for me because I’m not a big romance person either. The series I’m working on has maybe more romance in it than I prefer, but it has lots of different types of relationships and all are part of character development. The relationships are constantly shifting as the characters grow (or regress, in some cases). Based on my polls, it seems like my readers will be okay with this.

Are you a romance reader? What kind of love/relationships/courtship do you prefer: clean and wholesome, dirty liberal atheist, or somewhere in the middle? Let me know in the comments!

1 Comment

  1. The pulp romances I read voraciously as a teenager were all (like the Disney movies I consumed with equal intensity) about the girl achieving her life’s dreams by getting the right guy. I feel like a lot of the clean & wholesome stuff I read now (about 1/4 of what I consume) has that objective, whereas the saucy & sexy stuff I prefer to read usually has an ambitious heroine who achieves her life dreams herself and wins a strapping male (or two) along the way. Definitely a dirty liberal atheist feminist perspective, that?

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