Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-black-t-shirt-lying-on-yellow-bed-4866040/ Content warnings: language, sex, and rape The title is rather clickbaity, but it does sum up the crux of an argument that has take root in my brain recently. Every few months or so, someone will pop up on the internet with the same hot take: romance novels, and their readers, are either degenerates or stupid or both. Are there problems in romance as a genre? Definitely.

In the process of writing my short story, I reflected on what it meant to leave my own career as a university professor.

I had heard sooooo many positives about this series online and I will admit the cover design and blurb made me think this would be a...