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Off Book - Ankeen on Smut, Romance, and Why Men Should Read It
This week on Genre’d: Off Book, we sit down with our forever friend Ankeen — Brooklyn massage therapist, philosopher-at-heart, and unapologetic romance lover — to talk all things smut, tropes, and why romance is so much more than “frivolous.”
We get into how Harlequin paperbacks and Nora Roberts’ Montana Sky turned her into a reader at age ten, why “tasteful” sex scenes still hit, and what makes a perfect gateway romance versus a full-throttle smutty series (rock bands, hockey players, high-end sex clubs in London… we cover it all).
Along the way we unpack big misconceptions about the romance…
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