I don't know why books with main charactors, whose only goal at times is to build a massive *rgy, are so popular. Please enlighten me.edit: Forgot to mention, if you go to explore>eastern fantasy>original you will see that almost one in three is what I am talking about.
TinyRustyPanda like it or not, unfortunately that kind of wish fulfillment is popular.
Here's the truth, s*x sells, whatever form it is in.
TinyRustyPanda i have nothing to say.
Just here to be shameless
Try reading
CHASING A TSUNDERE KING
i hope you like it. my mc isn't controlled by lost. she's a bit silly sometimes blackbellied and the ml added to her would be a great clash of misunderstandings and laughter.
TinyRustyPanda
Because it's on the opposite spectrum of novels with virgin-like main characters?
I'm speaking about all of those Japanese novels for u-15 children, where main characters have difficulties to say the name of a girl or touch her hand (or something). In my country, we call MC like that "Floorcloth-kun" (or regular-japanese-schoolboy), saying that girls can literally walk on them, or wipe the floor with them, shouting that they love him, and he still doesn't have the guts to do anything.
Or about novels where authors can't create any sort of romantic relationship or/and mask it with "i need to become stronger before i can get in a relationship".
Looking on novels like this i always think "yeah, right, 16-25 male with no sexual desires. Tell me about it, coz it's realistic AF".
I don't know why authors go to extremes: virgin for life or non-stop sex. But choosing between virgins and sex I would chose later, probably, simply because I'm not ten and I don't need to pull girls on their ponytails to express feelings, and don't see anything wrong in a moderate amount of lust, or sexual relationships without love-for-live-at-first-sight. And simply because there are shit tons of novels with virgin for life main characters when something different appears, it becomes popular.
Exinaus I understand. I personally don't know why nowadays to tell a compelling story you HAVE to put a romance. I have read books with a good plot, only to put in a forced-feeling romance and it drags the entire story down.
TinyRustyPanda I think you asking the wrong question: why wouldn't you put a romance in a story? Are your hero some Hermit, or someone put a knife to his throat threatening to kill him if he got feelings for anyone? Lust or love are natural feelings, and suppressing them without reason makes readers doubt the whole plot as forced and unnatural.
It's like "MC doesn't have any brief feeling for the most beautiful girl he ever saw, while knowing she is in love in him" and "MC doesn't have any need to breathe, while everyone around him does - and it's normal just because I (author) said so" are on the same level of reasoning.
A lot of readers can accept novel with zero romance in, they just need a reasonable explanation of why is it not there.
For example, a novel about MC forcefully transferred to another world, he escaped slavery after summoning, and while running away freed two female slaves, and they become his companions. Later author wrote a dialog between MC and a male friend about those two, asking why MC doesn't accept their feelings or make a move. MC said that he still wants to return to his world, and having a romantic relationship with any of those two will be a huge moral factor that might keep him from returning, that's why he visits brothels regularly, but keep ignoring his companions. And that's a reasonable explanation that toned down cries about romance.
Because sex just sales?
It really depends on if the sex is any good in the story. If the story is just sex and only sex, then it would be fap material.
The story must be interesting to hook readers to continue reading to find out what happens next.
All of them can’t even write a proper romance .
TinyRustyPanda There's just a lot of perv--- I mean men of culture in this world...
