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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they problem with romance novels is it gives young girls an unhealthy view of relationships (with some exceptions) that romanticize alpha males and sex vs love.  I remember as a young teen wishing that my future husband and I have great chemistry/sex life not realizing that’s actually a small part of marriage.  Obviously porn is similarly skewed for adolescent males.  So I would just talk to her about what’s silly about the books (and the porn her male classmates are inevitably looking at) without being too judgmental.  [/quote]

Uh, I grew up in NYC and never EVER thought I'd be having sex on a horse with a man who looked like Fabio while galloping through the countryside. I knew damn well there was something weird about the consent aspect -  the women were always desperate to be saved and had sex with the man who rescued them because they were grateful and mistook that emotion for attraction to a conventionally attractive man. I liked guys like Joey McIntyre and Jordan Knight who could sing and dance yet were straight. I liked looking at Marky Mark in those CK ads, but thought "He's the kind of boyfriend who'd cheat and then make it seem like the girlfriend's fault he "had" to cheat." I didn't read or watch sexually explicit stuff and aspire to it. I grew up in a home where my father came home after work every day and rolled up his sleeves to do laundry and cook dinner while helping with homework. I grew up in a family where no aunts and uncles got divorced, nobody was an alcoholic or abusive and the one person who won a Grammy in our family is female. The one time someone got sloppily drunk at a bat mitzvah a few uncles ushered him out, and safely drove him home with his wife, then the aunts checked on the wife that night and the next morning (I was told about this years after the fact). [/quote]

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