Is the romance novel to a woman what porn is to a man? If you read "The Online World of Female Desire.", a Wall Street Journal article by Ogi Ogas, you may come to that conclusion. The author speaks of his research on sexual desire, as revealed in internet searches of popular adult sites and other web destinations. The conclusion: men prefer two- minute porn flicks and women prefer romance novels as means of sexual stimulation.
The author and his research partner put forth the theory that women don't watch porn, based on the subscription rate to online porn sites where men outnumber women subscribers 50 to 1. But does that really mean that women don't watch porn? The fact that women buy romance novels isn't proof, to me, that the romance story is the female equivalent to porn. They ...
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