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Kirisuna1 Men usually go the harem route. It's a big fantasy of theirs and something I noticed with my husband. I think some women might have the fantasy of a reverse harem with only guys but it has also had some part in history as well. Men in power keeping concubines or mistresses, it is unfortunate that a writer feels compelled to write in such desires. But it is obviously what that writer or writers wish to write about and some folks like to read about. I personally like the soulmate romance novels myself. Two people falling madly and deeply in love with each other.

Beats me
Just being in one relationship can already be stressful...
I can't even begin to imagine a harem.
Just why would you do that to yourself!?
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I'm kidding BTW.

I mean, if you got the choice to bed women every day or risk your life fighting, why would you choose to expand your kingdom by personally leading wars against other kingdoms and risk losing your life? That's why you'd get a general or someone to fight for you and take care of your problems, the only problem with this is you'd be giving someone else control of the military, which would later come to bite you in the ass with a coup d'etat or other less savory options. So as a king you'd be practically forced to lead major battles to not shake your rule. Also, as a king, you wouldn't really bed every woman you had in your harem, because if you had over 200 concubines and you tried to bed every single one of them every day... you wouldn't rule for very long. (not enough stamina, build additional pylons). (～￣▽￣)～
I don't see a problem with people writing about harems, even though I hate them. In the end, it's just a guy trying to write a story, and the story ends up as a harem because the author can't come up with any better motivations for the MC than to collect women for his harem, it's sad, really. (Sad because the author has no motivations to live himself, and is surviving off of the validation from his readers)

Even when you find a novel without harem, you will find a horney bit** in the reviews giving one star because it is not harem lol

Kirisuna1 YOU SHOULD CHANGE A GOOD STORY INTO A TRASH ONE

I’ll let you in on a little secret - if You don’t like something, it doesn’t mean that it is trash.

Now grow up, gently extract the 20 inch dildo out of your arse and avoid novels with a harem tag.

A_Gitagon It's not like most people have editors to rein them in unless they are legally contracted with Webnovel.

Oh bro, I'm gonna strongly disagree there. Content Editors rarely do anything of that sort. We can turn to them with technical difficulties, or questions, but they won't really help us write. That's not really their job either. Even us, contracted authors have to get an independent editor, to help out with what we should be wiriting. And well, as you said, we're not really making a lot to be able to afford that.

Kirisuna1 I don't often enter these discussions, but, well, as someone who wrote a yuri harem story, I feel I have a little bit of enlightenment to offer. So, here are a few reasons why authors like myself will opt into writing harems:

1. They're fun. There are a lot of funny, entertaining character dynamics you can get into when you approach a harem from the right angle.

2. Horny =/= bad. This is just a personal thing, but people often say "if you want to write horny stuff, just write porn" to which I respond, "but what if I want the horny stuff to have a plot?" I don't really think giving into The Horny (TM) makes a story inherently less creative or lazier, tbh. Hell, I honestly think it's the opposite.

Do you know how hard it is to write a sex scene that doesn't feel cringe to read about? It's pretty difficult in my opinion.

And, finally:

3. Well-written harems are kind of underrepresented. So, if I feel like I can flex my author muscles in that direction, it's tempting precisely because I know there's not much quality at the bottom of that barrel.

I hope this was illuminating to someone.

Kirisuna1 if only webnovel made an effort to add an 'exclude tag' filter

Happy_AltRight This statement seems to be making a lot of assumptions about the motivations of both kings and authors of harem stories. The idea that a king would choose to lead wars solely for the purpose of bedding women every day is a gross oversimplification of the complex factors that go into decisions about war and leadership. Additionally, the statement about harem authors lacking motivations and living off validation from readers is a baseless generalization. I really do not understand what you are getting at here.

Already_In_Use Writing a harem story solely for the sake of "fun" and "horny stuff" does not necessarily make for a well-crafted and meaningful narrative. Additionally, the statement seems to suggest that writing sex scenes is a core part of storytelling, which is not true for all genres and forms of literature.

Furthermore, the assertion that well-written harems are underrepresented could be challenged. There are plenty of quality stories that do not rely on harems or sexual content to engage readers. The idea that a certain type of story is inherently more difficult to write well is also debatable, as every story has its own challenges and requirements for success.