#I just experienced whiplash going from one romance novel that kept the scenes pretty vague to one that has cock in the first sentence

[amygdalae]

Ok another thing about romance novels is that "romance" and "erotica" have kind of fused into one thing. Like at my work we shelve em all under romance. So there's really no way of knowing how explicit a particular book will get. With some books the branding makes it obvious but plenty of others will have the same pastel quirky genre of cover design with widely varying levels of descriptive-ness when it comes to sex

So one book will have extremely flirty undertones and lots of tension but then the sex scenes are mostly vibes and vague sensual descriptions (which is still nice dgmw) while another might be full on fucking and sucking right out the gate, but you don't really have the easiest way to tell which will be which until youve read it.

I don't really have a thesis here I'm just remarking on a thing I've noticed. I do kind of wish it was easier to tell though. Even relatively tame ones will have reviews calling them "steamy" so it's kind of a dice roll every time. Spinning my big roulette wheel of fuck