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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).