Would you be offended if I disagreed with you?
I’m sure it wasn’t the OP’s intention that this should turn into a flirt thread so quickly. I’m glad I opened it, though, because I’ve been able to confirm my long-standing suspicion that Nacho4Sara is a babe 
I’m as ugly as a bag of rocks. And I read Harlequins. I guess your poll is right, you misinformed lump of unsmoked crack. Twenty years in bookstores and libraries and all you’ve learned is how to judge people by their looks and the books they read?
Go back to the bookstore and read a book instead of checking out the meat.
Can I change my post to what Biggirl said?
This is why I read the Pit. Sing it Sister!
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Habib
What I’m worried about is if he was asking if ugly girls read harlequins or if ugly girls are the only ones that read at all.
I’m probably totally misreading it though.
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No I wouldn’t be offended, but I wouldn’t believe you correct, either.
I know a very attractive (and also very intelligent) woman who is unashamed to admit to reading them; though to the best of my knowledge not in public. To risk cluttering up this mis-posted poll / flirt thread / TMI warehouse (never?) with a hypothesis: woman are less visual in what arouses them than men, and may get more out of being immersed in a story (however thin) that leads to eroticism. Not surprising then, that many enjoy a romance novel while most men prefer a nice glossy magazine.
I believe that Habib has made the most salient point yet.
I worked in a library for about 4 years during high school, and we have harlequins as honorbacks (you borrow 'em, no due date, it’s on your honor to bring 'em back). FWIW, the harlequins were borrowed pretty much exclusively by middle aged women of varying levels of attractiveness.
Before you add this to your data, I should probably tell you that that demographic made up about 40-50% of our total patronage. Again, FWIW.
When I worked in a used book store, we wouldn’t even take them from people for free. Nobody bought the Harlequins and their ilk–ever! The few that came into the store accidentally (people would sometimes just “donate” boxes of books–they would drop them and run!) didn’t sell even for 50 cents. WAG–I think maybe Harlequin-type readers often belong to book clubs, so they get them automatically, and they’ve read them all already, so they don’t want to buy them used.
The “better” romances, like Nora Roberts, Johanna Lindsey, etc. did sell, but not especially well.
My mother-in-law reads them. And she is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever met, both inside and out.
Me, OTOH, despise the things. And I’m ugly. So there.
Okay. If ugly ladies read romance novels, for mild eroticism – how about the out-and-out porn readers/oglers?
i haven’t seen anyone, regardless of appearance, read one of these pieces of shit.
Ummm…and your point is?
I believe that his point is he is looking for a mildly desparate woman and that a thread in which several women admit to reading romance novels would be a good place to find such women. (Not saying I agree, just that is how I interpret his message.)
Personally, I doubt even a desparate woman would go out with a guy that smells so strongly of socks.
I will not be able to sleep at night until this situation is remedied.
Preferably by me.
Just say when and where and I’ll be all over you - er, it - I mean the situation; I’ll be on top of it. Aw hell, you know what I mean right? I’m here to help.
And something tells me we’ll be waiting a while for Bossk to expand on his statements. Looks like a hit & run to me. He started this thread not too long ago. Although he had responses to the subject of his OP, he instead chose to make a personal attack on SPOOFE and ignore all else. When I pointed that out, he made a similar attack on me and hasn’t been back to that thread to discuss the subject he brought up in the first place.
Hey, now. I met you face to face. And, eyes to eyes since once we gazed into each other’s eyes, the conversation became something else entirely. You, shut yer piehole and let the boys here speak up on your behalf, got that?
You just wait till I get ahold of you at the NY Dopefest in January. 
Aside from correcting your initial statement, I agree 110% with your thoughts here.
Cartooniverse
Forget that, what about porn writers?