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Reading MM: How Gay Romance Scratches An Itch For Straight Women
Taking a look at women who write gay male romance novels
By Paul Gallant
When Lauren Blakely, a married straight year-old woman living in Seattle and a voracious reader, came upon the literary sensation Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, a gay romance that was made into a movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, she devoured it in a weekend. Then read it twice more. And then she decided she wanted to write a romance between two men.
Blakeley wasn’t a writing newbie: she had started writing romance novels in You know the stereotypical romance novel: girl meets guy, then something keeps them apart for a while, then they get together, man and woman, happily ever after. Blakely became known for her steamy and passionate writing. Her first gay romance, A Guy Walks Into My Bar, was her playing with the idea of whether it was possible for two men, strangers, a US hockey player and a British bartender, to fall in adoration in six days. “I thought, ‘If half my readers interpret it, that would be grea
Straight Women Love to Read Gay Romance Novels
When my Miami comrade Neil Plakcy, author of over 50 gay novels, told me that the majority of his sales were to mature straight women, I was floored. I consider myself savvy about women my age, but it never occurred to me that they would be interested in gay love making.
Neil, who lives in Hollywood, Florida, about 20 miles north of Miami, said that mature women love to scan about men having sex with men because they can fantasize about their bodies moving together. “If one man is sexy, two are even sexier. Just like straight men watch lesbian porn for titillation, straight women like to read about gay sex.”
Neil has been writing gay novels for over a decade. His thoughts and observations own been formed through thousands of interviews, conversations, and research. Neil also said women are prime targets for gay romance books because they are tired of the same old romance stories, which can be very predictable. “After decades of reading love stories, women want more, they desire heavy emotion, tons of lust, and lots of titillat
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