{"id":26388,"date":"2025-08-27T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26388\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:43:09","slug":"the-rise-of-romantasy-books-as-masturbation-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26388\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of Romantasy Books As \u201cMasturbation Material\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fantasy elements in these books, relatability is certainly an appeal, and a reason they\u2019re having such a positive effect on our sex lives. The success of bestsellers like ACOTAR and Quicksilver speaks to our desire for tension, with a slow-build that incorporates emotional depth and love stories with explicit sex. \u201cMany readers feel safer exploring eroticism when it\u2019s wrapped in a storyline of romance, loyalty, or personal growth,\u201d confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/doctorviviana\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Viviana Coles<\/a>, marriage, family and sex therapist, and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorviviana.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VIVID Relationships<\/a>. Unlike porn, where everything typically happens quickly and without much character-building, romantasy books (often written by\u00a0women authors and featuring strong female protagonists) tend to prioritise women\u2019s perspective, rather than the male gaze. We finally get stories that focus on our pleasure, which is empowering \u2014 and hot.<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the fantasy elements in these books, relatability is certainly an appeal, and a reason they\u2019re having such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[21650,359,18,117,19,17,3700,12544,21651],"class_list":{"0":"post-26388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-recommendations","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-relationships","15":"tag-sex","16":"tag-the-latest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}