How do you explain  the sudden rise in sales of  erotic romances, or as some call them, romantica?
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These books aren't like the hardcore sex stories written for men.  They are called erotica.  Women like different things then men do in that way and were never considered a market for them.  Now people realize there is a market for erotica for women.  They are more hardcore than the romance novels but not nearly as hardcore as the straight pornography.  They also have a plot line and great character development.  Many women read the hardcore books but didn't like the way they were done so many started writing what they liked.  The market started with story sites online then progressed to anthologies like Herotica which developed an immense following.  Publishers took notice and it went from there.  If you frequent sites for authors you will see many calls for works like this from new authors.  It was an untapped market that was finally discovered and is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Definitely. I have no doubt about this at all, and anyone who thinks that we're above animals in this regard is sadly deluded. Otherwise, why would "falling in love" be so completely, utterly irrational, while studies have demonstrated that women will wear more provocative outfits during ovulation, can unconsciously tell a man's genetic suitability from smell alone, and we flirt with people when we really, really should know better.
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I read these stories all the time .. they're great .. but most of them sound so unrealistic.\n\nI would like more detail about the sex then the actual story about how they met, what they were wearing, blah blah blah ...\n\nKeep up the good work and yes women are very passionate and beautiful creatures .... !
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Marketplace desirability = DEMAND.\n\nthe rise in demand means more people want that service or product.
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Absolutely Not, but the retailers sure like to play the sex card, don't they?  Love is love, sex is sex.  Sex is better with love, but Love doesn't need sex.\n\n;)
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Ya...those four stars are reall starting to make me mad.\n\nBut anyways, I'm guessing you're talking about the hald neaked womeneverywhere in ads..and you have to know that sex sells. But, I have seen plenty of ads where there are half-naked men in them. Most jean ads, and underwear ads ar all about the guys. And, before you start pointing fingers and yelling, "Men are pigs! Down with men!" There are tons of women in the advertising and modeling and graphic design industry making these desicions as well. It's not only men.
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====================================\nDATING SERVICES -- USER DEMOGRAPHICS\n====================================\n\nhttp://www.nelson.com/nelson/harcourt/sociology/newsociety3e/loveonline.pdf\nLove Online: A Report on Digital Dating in Canada\n\n***** This is a 55-page report from two researchers for the University\nof Toronto and McMasters University and funded by MSN.CA\n\n-------------------------------------------------\n\n\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/services/onlinedating/facts.html\nLove and little white lies\nBroadcast: Mar 16, 2004\nOnline dating facts & figures\n\nAverage monthly unique visitors to the online dating sites: \nU.S.: 40 million \nCanada: 7 million \n\nAccording to Love Online: A Report on Digital Dating in Canada (Drs.\nRobert J Brym and Rhonda L. Lenton, March 2001)\n \nOnline dating is growing for four main reasons:\n -- a growing proportion of the population is composed of singles.\nBetween 1995 and 1999, the number of single, widowed or divorced\nCanadians grew by 4.4 per cent.\n -- career and time pressures are increasing \n -- single people are more mobile. Also, a growing number of jobs\nrequire frequent travel\n -- workplace romance is on the decline due to growing sensitivity\nabout sexual harassment in the workplace\n\n***** This article summarizes the statistics from the 55-page report.\n\n\n\n==============================================\nDATING SERVICES -- USER PREFERENCES AND VALUES\n==============================================\n\nhttp://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2003/23/c6350.html \nJune23, 2003 -- Survey Shows: Gay, Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Canadians Who\nUse Online Personals Services Want a Serious Relationship\n\nTORONTO, June 23 /CNW/ - Yahoo! Canada Co, www.yahoo.ca a subsidiary\nof Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced\nfindings from a Yahoo! Canada Personals online survey(*) which shows\nthat when it comes to finding love and relationships, that Canadian\ngays, lesbians and bi-sexuals (GLB) who use the Internet are strong\nusers of online personals services and many use these services in\ntheir quest to find a serious relationship. The survey found that over\n87 per cent of respondents have used online personals services, more\nthan 67.6 per cent would consider using an online personals service in\nthe next 12 months and 75 per cent said they used online personals\nbecause they want to start a serious relationship.\n\n***** This article contains lots of statistics about the preferences\nof this target market.\n\n\n======================================================\nDATING SERVICES (TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE) – KEY PLAYERS\n======================================================\n\nhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040305/RLAVALIFE05/TPBusiness/TopStories\nMarch 5, 2004 -- \nLavalife dating service falls for U.S. suitor\nHefty price reflects lucrative market\n\nCanada's leading on-line dating service, Lavalife Inc., has been\nsnapped up by a U.S. firm for $152.5-million in cash, a hefty price\ntag that is testament to the lucrative world of on-line matchmaking.\n\n\nhttp://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Technology/2004/03/04/370097-cp.html\nMemberWorks of U.S. pays $152.5 million Cdn for matchmaker Lavalife\n2004-03-04 16:56:00\n\nTORONTO (CP) - Lavalife thinks it's found itself a match. \nThe Canadian online dating services company said Thursday it has\nagreed to be bought by U.S.-based marketing firm MemberWorks for\n$152.5 million in cash.\n\nAfter starting out in 1987 as Telepersonals, a telephone-based\npersonals-connecting service, the company morphed into Webpersonals in\n1997, and then Lavalife three years ago.\n\nAccording to the Online Publishers Association based in New York,\nspending in the personals/dating category in the first half of 2003 by\nU.S. consumers hit $214.3 million US, up 76 per cent from the same\nperiod in 2002.\n\nThe personals/dating category was also the largest
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I haven't been on the dating scene in over 11 years and back then it was 3 months. Today it's an anything goes kind of world. People who aren't even dating are hooking up etc. It seems like trends(for lack of a better word) go in cycles. The 60's, 70's people were pretty promiscuous, then came the awareness of AIDS and people started to be more cautious in the 80's and 90's and now we are back to promiscuity. I am so hoping that when my daughter is a teen that we will be back to a waiting to have sex trend. And what is really scary is what people consider to be "sex". Most don't count o_ral sex as "sex" because there is no penetration.It's still sex! Now I am by no means a prude, but I do believe you should know the person you are sharing your body with. If you don't know them how can you trust them. \nWow, this is really long-winded. Sorry!
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romance is .............. no idea\n\nromantic i kinda know wht it means
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I don't define romance as sending flowers to the one u love, or swapping gifts or candles at night and music while making love.\nI find it romantic when me and my husband fight and we both don't talk to each other and then one of us make something funny and we start laughing at it,I do write myself poems ..and when I need to listen to something it is certainly not romantic,and I don't like romantic movies at all,so I guess I am not a romantic person...ehhh..\nI prefer if my husband show little love but remain faithful rather than spoiling me with gifts and do someone else on my back.\nHappily, he is faithful but ain't romantic just like me.
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No, not at all. In many western countries the number of singles are growing, so much so that companies target them specifically with advertising, special services.
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It seems to me you have been spending too much time in the 'romantic fiction' section of the store!!
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I think people are starting to feel more open and free. Losing their manners and being proper. I'm glad I'm not the only who noticed. \n\nBut if you think about it, sex is a part of our nature. We need some sort of relief whether it's by yourself or with a person, and somehow nowadays people choose to have sex as their release.\n\nIt's also based on the society.
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Lazy parents and a continuously degrading society. It's become normal now to be promiscuous, even praised. It's quite sick. What's truly good is becoming bad, and what's truly bad is becoming good. It's a sign of the end times... for real.
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It's increased because popular culture now accepts it. In the past a lesbian would either not tell anyine or she would just be straight.
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I think the explanation you quote is accurate. It isn't as "romantic" or mysterious as the ones you hear discussed on shows like Coast To Coast with Art Bell/George Nori, but it makes a whole lot more sense.\n\nSorry kids, reality and scientifc explanations aren't much fun are they?
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Figures released this spring show that a new book of fiction is published in the United States every 30 minutes. Even if you don't count the titles published through print-on-demand and other fee-charging, vanity-press-type outfits, the total still comes to 10,000 books a year -- or one book published every hour or so. And that's just the fiction. \n\nThe statistics come from R. R. Bowker, the company that compiles the Books in Print database and assigns ISBN's (International Standard Book Numbers) to new books and editions. Every year, Andrew Grabois, Bowker's senior director of publisher relations, crunches the numbers this way and that, and this time around the killer figure is 175,000: the awe-inspiring total of new titles published in 2003, a jump of 19 percent over 2002. \n\nBy LAURA MILLER \nPublished: July 18, 2004