{"id":390,"date":"2011-07-15T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T18:51:42","slug":"romantic-novels-paint-an-unrealistic-picture-of-sex-and-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/romantic-novels-paint-an-unrealistic-picture-of-sex-and-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Novels Paint An Unrealistic Picture Of Sex And Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romantic fictional books like Mills &amp; Boon are one of the most  popular genres of fiction and high year upon year sales of these types  of books underline <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Couple-on-a-beach.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-391\" title=\"Couple on a beach\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Couple-on-a-beach-150x150.png?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Romance on the beach\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Couple-on-a-beach.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Couple-on-a-beach.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Couple-on-a-beach.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>this fact. Though there is nothing wrong in reading  them to pass the time and entertain oneself, but caution needs to be  taken by millions of women who read such books, to not blur the line  between reality and fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that most of these  books paint a totally unrealistic picture of what romance and sex is in  real life. For a lot of women these novels are the only benchmark that  they have about romantic and sexual relationship, and is especially true  in the case of\u00a0 adolescent girls. No man can live up to such high and  unrealistic expectations and a lot of people struggle with maintaining a  happy and a positive romantic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The preception  created by these romance novels are the root cause of a lot of  relationship problems that many women face. So remember there is no harm  in reading romantic fictional novels but understand that in real life a  lot of work needs to be done to have a happy relationship with your  partner and you need to accept them with their imperfections and never  compare them to the &#8220;ideal hero&#8221; of the the romance novels because that  is a surefire recipe for a relationship disaster.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the subject <a href=\"\/\/press.psprings.co.uk\/JFPRH\/july\/JFPRH1100152.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romantic fictional books like Mills &amp; Boon are one of the most popular genres of fiction and high year upon year sales of these types of books underline this fact. Though there is nothing wrong in reading them to pass the time and entertain oneself, but caution needs to be taken by millions of women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[13,56,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-relationships-2","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-relationship-tips","9":"tag-relationships","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draroras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}