# Romance novels aimed at male readers?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 2, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romance-novels-aimed-at-male-readers/374978 "2006-10-02T15:31:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romance-novels-aimed-at-male-readers/374978/61 "2006-10-03T20:33:11Z")

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[QUOTE=WhyNot]  
Maybe my romance collection isn’t trashy enough, but it all focuses on the female - her thoughts, her worries, her fights with her mother-in-law, her upcoming showing at the local art gallergy, her being swept off her feet by a hulking brute with a pulsing manhood…the men involved are shadows and caricatures, just like the women in a James Bond novel.  
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I could see a novel about a serious _romance_ with the man as protagonist –a private eye, say – retaining some of the action and man-feel. At least that of an earlier era (nowadays a lot of manliness is _about_ being a caricature).

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