Yes, I think I am. I seem to have some odd moral issues in my reading habits. I'm reading a great historical romance but the heroine is a dance hall girl, one step up from a common whore. It's a good book but I just can't identify with her. I'm all into the hero though. This is coming from a former teenager who LOVED Pretty Woman. Watched that one over and over and never had a problem but for whatever reason, I just can't get into romances with a woman who is, well, who is not a virgin. Ok, there I've said it. Slap me silly with the old fuddy-duddy stick. I know, this is a problem I should get over. Real women have a sex life, but this little old-fashioned voice says, "not in my novels."
Why is this? This is probably why I read historicals. This does not answer the question as to why I love Romantica and juicy sex scenes. Having a man who, in borrowing a phrase from my mom, has the morals of an alley cat, doesn't do it for me either, so at least I'm an equal opportunity fuddy-duddy.
Does anyone else feel this way or should I pull out my poodle skirt with petticoat and deck shoes and go sit in the corner? BTW, use of the "f" word in novels does not bother me. That would be real hypocrisy if it did. :)
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For Christie!
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I'm right there with you, KB. Don't mess with my historical’s by giving me a hoochie mama. I need a good ol’ fashion dark, brooding rouge and a heroine with her maidenhead still in firmly in place. Even in historical’s with widows I find myself hoping the dead husband was impotent so our oh-so-bad-boy rouge can steal her virginity on the cusp of some titillating ton scandal. Throw in a unexpected pregnancy and you got yourself a home run.
That's just wrong on soooo many levels, but there you have it.
Wonder if that dates me?
Okay, break out the poodle skirts! I almost said that I don't remember reading a historical where the heroine wasn't a virgin, but then I remembered reading this one author where the women often aren't virgins or they wind up with other men at some point in the book either voluntarily or not. She's a great writer but it always gives me a slightly queazy feeling to read those scenes with the heroine and a man that is not her hero. And the scenes with the hero playing the man-ho with other women just pisses me off.
But when I read a contemporary and the woman is nearing 30 and still a virgin it's just so unbelievable.
If the characters are likeable and the story is good then I don't care so much about the virgin thing.
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