82% of romance readers are women, and most of them discover the genre between the ages of 11-18, which is precisely the period when their ideas about love, sex, and relationships are still forming. I am one of them. At fourteen, while my teachers avoided sex talks and my parents pretended it didn’t exist, romance and erotic novels became my first teachers. Books from Harlequin and Silhouette were passed around quietly, even though they were strictly prohibited. We handed them …
