I just reread an old romance novel
11 upvotes | April 18, 2020 | by stevierose789
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After forbidding myself from reading romance for a few years, I just
picked up an old favorite and sure enough for a time it whisked me
away to an exciting, worry-free state of mind. What was different as I
read now after finding RPW was recognizing how so much of it was
opposite of RP theory. I thought about it for awhile and recognized
that I, like many women my age, once believed the behavior of the
heroine was the way to snare a man’s interest. Some examples:
playing hard to get, acting tough, making him jealous. All of these
were ways to build sexual tension in the plot, but really do not work
in real life.

Can you think of other behaviors in romance novels that go against RP
theory? I have not read any new romance novels. Most of the ones I
have read are twenty to thirty years old. I am interested if feminism
has completely changed the nature of romance novels or if the basic
themes still prevail.

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