Its so odd to me that it seems that most contemporary popular books just seem like smutt. This is especially with that Colleen Hoover bs. Theres always this depiction that a woman is in a bad marriage so a white knight comes and defiles the marriage freeing the wife. This is completely toxic. Why dont authors right an arc where the wife just leaves? Or where through the marriage she gains her independence back.
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Glorifying these concepts seems toxic and seems like fantasy p*rn. In Revolutionary Road, we get to see the devastation of a marriage through infidelity. You see Frank and immediately think hes a POS. The characters all see hes a POS especially the neighbors son who calls him out. He rui s a young secretarys life temporarily. He staps out on his pregnant wife. This further estranges their marriage. Then the wife does the same with the friend. By then shes already destroyed and dead inside. Im sure we all know what happens at the end.
My point is why do books no longer show the side effects of infidelity? It seems that novels now, especially the ones aimed at a female demographic are romanticizing this behavior vs when they used to show the devastation it takes on people?
I feel the same way about the Tropic of Cancer by Miller. Just smutt but it seemed for men.
What is your opinions on this? Do you feel as though recent works are like this?
by Personal-Ladder-4361
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> p*rn.
what?
Horny people in bad relationships writing for horny people in bad relationships
Eh. People are complicated. I like reading all sorts of things I wouldn’t ever personally do or condone.
Because authors don’t write for your delicate sensibilities