How does a genre that prides itself on happily ever afters approach the very real issue of infertility? And how should it?
I’ll never forget the experience of reading a contemporary romance in which the female lead went into a friends-with-benefits arrangement thinking that all she could offer her love interest was a fun time, since she knew that her diagnosis of endometriosis made her unable to have children.
We were seriously considering bringing in the reproductive endocrinologist experts to embark on the very expensive, in-no-way-guaranteed path of in vitro fertilization . In that moment, reading about a fictional character having an “oopsie” pregnancy as if she were blessed with the kind of fecundity they scared us about in high school sex ed was so destabilizing.
There is the feeling that these stories must be neatly tied up with a bow; they cannot end on uncertainty, but must instead resolve into a pregnancy, no matter how scientifically inconceivable such a solution may be based on the evidence presented thus far. There are a handful of infertility-centered movies, TV plotlines, and plays, but the greatest concentration of them seems to exist in romance books.
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