Days after my RA class gone wrong, USA Today has this article in today's edition: Romance Novels for Women Get Frankly Sexual. We touched on this a bit in class, and I mentioned some of the new lines that are starting (or will soon be up and running) that are also mentioned in the USA Today article. Nothing new if you have read the latest RT, but interesting if you haven't.

One of my students who was of the "if it's Romance it's crap" school of thought said in class that she wished her book had more sex in it (yes, I found that weird too), and I've been thinking ever since that maybe I was wrong to not include more Romantica/Erotica in my class selections. I've also been doing a lot of thinking about the inclusion of Romantica/Erotica in library collections. Despite its overwhelming popularity, how many libraries are actually shelving this genre/subgenre?

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