Ellie Palmer is the author of 'Four Weekends and a Funeral,' out August 2024.
In April 2021, the Bluetooth blunder all romance readers fear most happened to me in while I was in the hospital recovering from a preventative mastectomy. With COVID-19 vaccines still difficult to come by, I spent most of my hospital stay alone in a dimly lit room, plowing through the array of romance audiobooks that I had downloaded onto my iPhone.
So, as I fixated on the pros and cons of nipples while faced with a life without physical sensation in my breasts, I turned to the only women I knew who were equally as eager to discuss their breasts: women in romance novels. While the romance genre varies widely in its depictions of sex — from the mere implication of intimacy to explicit on-page descriptions — it is mostly consistent in the ways it centers women’s physical experience of sexual attraction and desire.
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