Not that I’m aware of.
I mean, there is “handsome rake finds partner they actually like and become monogamous” but I don’t recall any imploding or humbling.
Or, well, if there is humbling, it has nothing to do with their sexual promiscuity and everything to do with learning not to be an overbearing asshole.
Classic case in point: Mr. Darcy.
He is not the sexually promiscuous one. He is merely an asshole. And his character development for the novel is to stop being an asshole – or be less of one and try to direct his assholishness away from his fiancee.
I’m trying to think of a romance novel I’ve read with a promiscuous male lead. It’s actually rarer than you’d think – far more common in my experience is the brooding loner male lead.
On the other hand, I tend toward the more sex-positive romance novels, so my sample set may be biased. And I mean actual sex-positive, not Joe’s misuse of the term here.
The one that comes to mind is a somehow widely read Twilight fan fiction I can’t bring myself to name, but I didn’t get as far into HOW promiscuous he was beyond “not with the romantic lead”
Yeah, that’s a thing from where I see it. It ties into a more general expectation of “growing up and settling down.” There’s an expectation that you find “the one” and recognize that you’re happier having sex with exactly one person.
It runs the other way too, of course. Having sex with nobody and not being in a monogamous relationship isn’t really an accepted choice either.
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That sounds like a romance novel cliche.
Not that I’m aware of.
I mean, there is “handsome rake finds partner they actually like and become monogamous” but I don’t recall any imploding or humbling.
Or, well, if there is humbling, it has nothing to do with their sexual promiscuity and everything to do with learning not to be an overbearing asshole.
Classic case in point: Mr. Darcy.
He is not the sexually promiscuous one. He is merely an asshole. And his character development for the novel is to stop being an asshole – or be less of one and try to direct his assholishness away from his fiancee.
I’m trying to think of a romance novel I’ve read with a promiscuous male lead. It’s actually rarer than you’d think – far more common in my experience is the brooding loner male lead.
On the other hand, I tend toward the more sex-positive romance novels, so my sample set may be biased. And I mean actual sex-positive, not Joe’s misuse of the term here.
The one that comes to mind is a somehow widely read Twilight fan fiction I can’t bring myself to name, but I didn’t get as far into HOW promiscuous he was beyond “not with the romantic lead”
It’s the myth of Joe
**in a Spanish accent, directed at Joe**
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
– the Princess Bride
Inconceivable!
Never go in against a Sicilian when Death is on the line!
Never go in against sex-positive dudes who like you either end up, all chats and humbled.
…I may have skipped some words in that first panel. :-/
*chaste. Another joke ruined by autocorrect.
Yeah, that’s a thing from where I see it. It ties into a more general expectation of “growing up and settling down.” There’s an expectation that you find “the one” and recognize that you’re happier having sex with exactly one person.
It runs the other way too, of course. Having sex with nobody and not being in a monogamous relationship isn’t really an accepted choice either.