Comments on: A Moist “O” of What? http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/ What's hip, what's now, what's tomorrow in the romance genre world. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:26:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stacy B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16915 Stacy B. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:17:40 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16915 I've read this interesting post in another blog: "One thing about romance is that it is liberating. Men have unabashedly held up a standard where the female body is to measure up. Check out http://askmen.com where they give prominent women numerical ratings of their desirability! Romance is the one place where we get to do the same across the board, hold men up to unattainable physical standards. The heroes are fine as hell and hung big. They have tight abs, tight asses and heads full of hair. Back hair is non-existent as are love handles." I’ve read this interesting post in another blog:

“One thing about romance is that it is liberating. Men have unabashedly held up a standard where the female body is to measure up.
Check out http://askmen.com where they give prominent women numerical ratings of their desirability!
Romance is the one place where we get to do the same across the board, hold men up to unattainable physical standards. The heroes are fine as hell and hung big. They have tight abs, tight asses and heads full of hair. Back hair is non-existent as are love handles.”

]]> By: Barbara B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16843 Barbara B. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:34:56 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16843 Hey Stacy B! I like a fatty as much as the next woman. It's just that wrist thing that made me nervous. But you're right, it's the manhood that's impossibly long that's the deadly enemy of the poor defenseless cervix. The throbbing doesn't help either. Hey Stacy B! I like a fatty as much as the next woman.
It’s just that wrist thing that made me nervous. But you’re right, it’s the manhood that’s impossibly long that’s the deadly enemy of the poor defenseless cervix. The throbbing doesn’t help either.

]]> By: KeVin Killiany http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16842 KeVin Killiany Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:21:14 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16842 I think it's like everybody waking up with sweet breath -- each partner always has whatever physical attributes the other finds perfect. Just once I'd like to have someone stop and say "Jeez. You must have gotten a lot of ribbing in gym class." I think it’s like everybody waking up with sweet breath — each partner always has whatever physical attributes the other finds perfect.

Just once I’d like to have someone stop and say “Jeez. You must have gotten a lot of ribbing in gym class.”

]]> By: Stacy B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16841 Stacy B. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:23:02 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16841 Absolutely, Michelle. This is real fun. Oh my, that Emma Holly's hero could sell his formula. There's a huge market out there! Yes, I always try to match up physical correlations betwen h and hn. Sometimes is frankly impossible. All this talk reminds me a discussion we had on Ellora's Cave forum sometime ago. Does size matter in romance? Absolutely, Michelle. This is real fun.

Oh my, that Emma Holly’s hero could sell his formula. There’s a huge market out there!

Yes, I always try to match up physical correlations betwen h and hn. Sometimes is frankly impossible.

All this talk reminds me a discussion we had on Ellora’s Cave forum sometime ago. Does size matter in romance?

]]> By: Stacy B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16840 Stacy B. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:21:45 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16840 Absolutely, Michelle. This is real fun. Oh my, that Emma Holly's hero could sell his formula. There's a huge market out there! Yes, I always try to match up physical correlations betwen h and hn. Sometimes is frankly impossible. All this talk remembers me a discussion we had on Ellora's Cave forum sometime ago. Does size matter in romance? Absolutely, Michelle. This is real fun.

Oh my, that Emma Holly’s hero could sell his formula. There’s a huge market out there!

Yes, I always try to match up physical correlations betwen h and hn. Sometimes is frankly impossible.

All this talk remembers me a discussion we had on Ellora’s Cave forum sometime ago. Does size matter in romance?

]]> By: Michelle Buonfiglio http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16837 Michelle Buonfiglio Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:40:22 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16837 Can I tell you how fun it is that this convo is still going on and that, I think, you're still having fun with it, too? Like Stacy B, I'm partial to the hero girth. But I still giggle at what, oh who was it who brought it up, the throbbing manhoods swelling impossibly longer and harder. I've seen that written honestly once, though, in Emma Holly's Courting Midnight wherein, God bless him, the hero had the power to make his pulsating member impossibly harder and thicker and, if I'm not mistaken, lengthen. As if the former wouldn't be ok enough. Ann: indeed. Yes, Kerry A. So I'm not the only one who gets a little squeamish on the length description. Although, this new imagery about the, how did you put it, anaconda swelling against his belly? is interesting and, may go back to Kev's wife's physiological impossibility theory. Does anyone else spend time trying to match up physical descriptions of h/hn with descriptions in love scenes? Like, she's 5 foot even, and he's 6'5", yet his manhood is always throbbing against her "belly." Or he's able to contort his body during coitus so that he can still kiss her breasts? Or do I need to shore up my suspension of disbelief even during the "good parts?" Yet, let me just say, that I'm more than happy to susp disblf for any of this stuff if the story's good. And, heck, even if the story's not so good. I just love reading it. Can I tell you how fun it is that this convo is still going on and that, I think, you’re still having fun with it, too?

Like Stacy B, I’m partial to the hero girth. But I still giggle at what, oh who was it who brought it up, the throbbing manhoods swelling impossibly longer and harder. I’ve seen that written honestly once, though, in Emma Holly’s Courting Midnight wherein, God bless him, the hero had the power to make his pulsating member impossibly harder and thicker and, if I’m not mistaken, lengthen. As if the former wouldn’t be ok enough.

Ann: indeed.

Yes, Kerry A. So I’m not the only one who gets a little squeamish on the length description. Although, this new imagery about the, how did you put it, anaconda swelling against his belly? is interesting and, may go back to Kev’s wife’s physiological impossibility theory.

Does anyone else spend time trying to match up physical descriptions of h/hn with descriptions in love scenes? Like, she’s 5 foot even, and he’s 6′5″, yet his manhood is always throbbing against her “belly.” Or he’s able to contort his body during coitus so that he can still kiss her breasts? Or do I need to shore up my suspension of disbelief even during the “good parts?”

Yet, let me just say, that I’m more than happy to susp disblf for any of this stuff if the story’s good. And, heck, even if the story’s not so good. I just love reading it.

]]> By: Stacy B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16836 Stacy B. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:12:16 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16836 Maria, I also cannot find sexy the word "impale" :cry: Barbara, I insist to prefer extra girth to extra length. Of course, if you say "tremendous"... :shock: I've recently read "Passion" by Lisa Valdez. That hero's penis can be considered as "tremendous"... But the heroine doesn't get terrified at all, if I'm not wrong... :wink: Maria, I also cannot find sexy the word “impale” :cry:

Barbara, I insist to prefer extra girth to extra length. Of course, if you say “tremendous”… :shock:

I’ve recently read “Passion” by Lisa Valdez. That hero’s penis can be considered as “tremendous”… But the heroine doesn’t get terrified at all, if I’m not wrong… :wink:

]]> By: Ann http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16835 Ann Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:07:14 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16835 His moist, clever, aroused, plump, silky throbbing manhood danced and mewled over her pebbled nubs. :twisted: His moist, clever, aroused, plump, silky throbbing manhood danced and mewled over her pebbled nubs. :twisted:

]]> By: Barbara B. http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16832 Barbara B. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:15:38 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16832 As a reader who's never had the joy of a baby rappeling its way out of my moist cavern, both tremendous girth and length terrify me. As a reader who’s never had the joy of a baby rappeling its way out of my moist cavern, both tremendous girth and length terrify me.

]]> By: Maria Duncan http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/comment-page-2/#comment-16830 Maria Duncan Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:43:41 +0000 http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/a-moist-o-of-what/#comment-16830 I can't stand the word 'impale'. It is just not sexy for me. I can’t stand the word ‘impale’. It is just not sexy for me.

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