A romance reader named Teresa realized that she “wanted to read about guys touching each other” rather then just two men focused on the woman in a m/f/m ménage à trois. Because I love romance, the act of falling in love, it was that process which most captivated me.” Jennifer Tilt, who writes m/m romance as Jonathan Treadway, says about the male lovers in m/m romance, “They still wanted what I wanted as a woman: a permanent, loving, happy, safe, equal relationship.”īut sometimes why these women read romance doesn’t fit into neat preconceptions.
Hot!’ But it was so much more than the hotness factor of seeing two sexy men together. Langley’s The Tin Star (Loose ID, 2006), m/m writer Kimberly Gardner says, “I remember thinking, ‘Wow! This is incredibly What captured their attention sometimes does fit into the stereotype that straight women read romance differently than gay men do. Many of the women mention first encountering m/m romance at Ellora’s Cave, a publisher of women’s erotic romance.
Knight interviews 32 writers, editors, publishers, and readers-all straight (well, only slightly bent) women-to get answers to his title question, and along the way he discovers stories that he says made him “laugh, cry, and shake my head in astonishment.” Me, too.Įbooks opened the world of gay and m/m romance to many of these women who were already insatiable romance readers and were just looking for a new book. I’d like to think we’re past the controversy over straight women who write and read m/m romance, but the Sturm und Drang that arises every time I mention the subject in this column makes me appreciate the service that best-selling romance adventure writer Geoffrey Knight has performed for the gay and m/m romance communities with his study, Why Straight Women Love Gay Romance, (ManLoveRomance Press, 2012).
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