Something You Don’t See Often In Romance Novels

When it comes to love and relationships, romance novels aren't really the best resources that can be used as a reference. More often than not, they paint a very idealistic picture on what love is supposed to be. It has to be between an attractive man and woman caught up in a frenzied passion of love and lust that frequently ends up in several chapters of steamy lovemaking filled with euphemisms for certain body parts and the act of copulation. If you grab a romance novel off a used bookstore shelf and lay it out on its spine, chances are it will open to the most read portion which is usually where the dirty parts are. With all the sex going on in these books, I wonder if any of the characters contracted anything infectious like herpes or syphilis. A touch of STD dating in a romantic love story would be very interesting.