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What Is Erotic Romance

Romance novels have dominated the fiction market for many years. A lot of the genre's appeal is due to its mutability. Trends surface and swell in the romance fiction industry with a few regularity, ensuring a multitude of storylines and settings.

Graphic sex in romance may be the latest "hot" trend. Readers want to see through an open bedroom door to achieve a broader picture of methods the hero and heroine interact with each other. The term "erotic romance" describes a picture level that is very distinct, but due to a tendency by readers and writers to interchange "erotic romance" with "erotica" and detractors' usage of the words "porn" and "soft porn" it is a confusing morass. The definition of these terms is often debated, but this is a basic breakdown:

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   Porn: stories written for that express reason for causing sexual titillation. Plot, character development, and romance are not primary to these stories. They are made to sexually arouse your reader and absolutely nothing else.
   Erotica: stories discussed the sexual journey of the characters and how this impacts them as individuals. Emotion and character growth are important areas of a real erotic story. However, erotica isn't designed to show the introduction of an intimate relationship, although it isn't prohibited when the author chooses to understand more about romance. Happily Ever Afters are not an intrinsic part of erotica, though they can be included. If they're included, they are not the main focus. The focus remains around the individual characters' journeys, not the progression of the romance.
   Erotic Romance: stories discussed the development of a romantic relationship through sexual interaction. The sex is an inherent part of the story, character growth, and relationship development, also it couldn't be removed with no damage the tale. Happily Ever After is really a requirement to become an erotic romance.
   Sexy Romance: stories discussed the development of a romantic relationship that simply have more explicit sex. The sex is not an inherent area of the story, character growth, or relationship development, and may be easily removed or "toned down" without damaging the storyline. Happily Ever After is a requirement as this is basically a typical romance with hotter sex.

I hope you can easily see how distinct these stories are and just how the "label" put on them isn't interchangeable. It's my hope the erotic romance genre will continue to grow and thrive. As it does, probably the distinctions between genres will become clearer and more readers will get precisely what they're looking for in a "hot" romance.