Denis517

An evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad has stated multiple times that the trope of "attractive eccentric rocket scientist billionaire who wrestles alligators on his six pack" works extremely well for the romance novel genre because it tends to fill the needs of the type of person who buys these books, while the idea of a "skinny, ugly, minimum wage, gentleman in touch with his feminine side " would never work.

My question is what is your opinion on these characteristics that most think will "always" sell , and do you think that you could make a man who isn't very generally attractive appealing to people buying Romance novels?

Thank you very much for the response. I'll add Eleanor and Park to my to-read list. I love redheads. I can see what you mean by normative women being encouraged. I assume that a lot of the women reading these books put themselves in the role of the protagonist; just like a lot of men do the same with pornography.

Why can't I get laid?