Pimp / Ho romance.

Legal Romance?

Jon spent the weekend lost in his briefs.

Accountancy Romance?

Taking a break for now, Jon applied his backup withholding to his carryover.

Sanitation Worker Romance?

Jon's centroclinal dip sent his backflow into her groundwater.

Long story, but someone I knew writes historical romance novels. Not a big market there either...

Funny, I was just flipping through the Medical Board of California newsletter. About 20 physicians per issue get their license revoked for participating in real life romance novels.

Occasionally I recognize a name from medical school.

I've seen a few movies like that -- Horny Nurses Do Blackzilla, Exploited MILF Nurses, Bangbros Go To The ER, etc

My favorite mystery series is actually pseudo-romance/sci-fi as well. And there are supernatural romances as well as time traveling ones and ones made up of completely fictional countries with creaturesz that are like vampires, but aren't. I also remember this one where there was this mega-buff chick who was like a super spy for her planet, but got abandoned on a planet where women were chattel/slaves/puny/etc. and got enslaved to the local feline-warlord thingie who nobly raped her and then she fell in love with him. Very weird.

That was one of the subplots in The Pinballs...the girl was looking for one she hadn't read.

I have a couple of these from £1 box buys, but haven't read them. They look pretty terrible. There are sexy professions and there are definitely not sexy professions - doctors but not dentists, pilots but not the guy behind the BA counter at Heathrow, and how would you write a sexy bodice-ripper about a guy who sits at a computer all day? The sexy professions are thrilling, with an element of danger.

I think that's mostly, but not entirely true. I just weeded the romance paperback section at my library, and, much like Christian lit, romances are a mostly-under-the-radar thing that has expanded to fill every available market niche. I see a lot of romance books where the sexy profession is, like, auto mechanic or chef or something--somebody who puts in a hard day's work with their strong hands, somebody honest and dependable and reliable, like that. Like Stringer Bell in Daddy's Little Girls.

Too true, box. All of the aspirations a woman could possibly have are covered by the genre - an exciting, adventurous man; a strong, dependable man; a dangerous, heart-breaking man; and most importantly, a manly man.

Okay, tangent - how is Tyler Perry viewed by US critics, and especially by the black community? I haven't seen Daddy's Little Girls but I've seen a few of his other movies, plays and House of Payne and his characters seem caricatures, but I understand his stuff is hugely popular. Is this sort of portrayal of African-Americans seen as positive or negative? Sorry to derail, but you reminded me of something I've been pondering for a while, box!

I have this on my book shelf at home. I am waiting for the apporpriate giftee.

danf, we get more compies of Cherry Ames books at the store then you'd ever believe. they must've been really popular back in the day.