# On the stubborn insistence that fictional romances should have real-world significance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 3, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-stubborn-insistence-that-fictional-romances-should-have-real-world-significance/994043 "2023-12-03T08:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-stubborn-insistence-that-fictional-romances-should-have-real-world-significance/994043/21 "2023-12-03T17:53:33Z")
Here is I post I wrote 13 years ago on my experiences in an adjacent area: > [@Why do women marry men on death row?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-women-marry-men-on-death-row/542858/28): > > My firm makes, among other things, software for tracking crazies for private security companies. It’s an outgrowth of software for police intel divisions to track “persons of interest”. Pretty much every brand name famous person in show biz, big biz, or politics hires one of a handful of security companies to watch over them. The uber wealthy-and-famous often have their own such company. These companies’ services are sort of a combo of physical security, bodyguards, concierge to government (e.… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-stubborn-insistence-that-fictional-romances-should-have-real-world-significance/994043)._