Welcome to the Spanking from A-Z Blogging Challenge. For the month of June I will be posting something each day associated with the alphabet. Today's letter is 'C' and I'm going to share my thoughts regarding children in erotic romance novels. Children- cute,capricious, cranky curmudgeons who can circumvent your carefully cultivated climax with chronically choreographed caterwauling. Oh wait, I'm talking about my children. Excuse me while I get back on track. I've never been a fan of children. No, that's not right either, I've never been a fan of children in romance novels. I like my smut straight up and and the dirty bits I want to read about are not something you wash out in the toilet. (Oh yes I did use cloth diapers!) As a young mother, I read to escape the realities of ear infections and projectile vomiting, not wallow in it. Spit-up in my hair was not sexy, despite reading about the handsome young doctor who can overlook such trivialities as he rescues the hapless single mother from a life of poverty, providing her with riches untold and an enormous cock. Please, if he'd showed up at my door, I would have handed off three babies and taken a nap. I bet the studly doctor wouldn't be quite so amorous after an afternoon of ear-piercing cries from gas-ridden imps who pulled his hair and stuck a finger up his nose! (Remind me to tell you sometime about the trip to the ER with a bead stuck in my daughters nose, or about what happens to nail polish when it's dumped in a bathtub full of water with a toddler still in it. (Ugh, still gives me chills.) Anyway, to get back to what I was saying, I don't particularly care for children in romance books. If you've read my books, you may well ask yourself how I ended up with exactly that, and I will answer, "I have no freaking clue!" They just appeared, much like an unexpected pregnancy, uninvited yet cherished and not one child, nine! Nine children in my O'Malley books and now Molly is pregnant with twins. Good grief, I need a nap. Why don't you check out some of the other blogs, while I do that. Click to set custom HTML
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Stevie
6/3/2014 03:34:24 am
Children should always be innocent in these kind of books. As far as the Age-play thing, that would never include anyone under the legal age of consent and it not appealing to everyone. As my husband says, "There's an ass for every seat" lol.
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6/3/2014 02:50:45 am
Okay, so Stevie, I waited to comment until after I'd gotten sleep, which was probably good lol. Interesting to read your comments about children in romance. Of course I'm thinking wider to include all the shades from mainstream romance to erotica. As a queer, poly, kinky woman, I see genuine examples of my life all too infrequently. I often love a child character in a romance novel, especially when the child forces some sort of character or relational development in one of the adults. Like the first example that comes to mind is Sorcha Black's "The Dom with the Kink Monsters"- when a dom and his slave end up rescuing a preschool age child from an uncaring mother, it forces the polyamorous relationship they're building with another couple to really consider if they care for each other. For me, I'm not wanting an escape, but to see "myself." That all said, I do have a child character of my own in my serial, but I'm choosy how it comes into scenes- and never ones with sexual activity happening- and there are places I simply don't go :D- like when he has a bad cold and keeps the MC's domme up, the aftermath is shown, not the domme struggling with 3 year old in discomfort.
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Stevie
6/3/2014 03:36:37 am
Now that I've written several books with parents/children woven into the stories, I'm more comfortable with it. As you say, never in any type of sexual situation, but as members of the family.
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6/3/2014 06:40:40 am
Funny post and ironic that your series has so many children. Guess you just can't get away from them.
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Kathy Heare Watts
6/3/2014 11:25:40 am
OMG you made me laugh! Love the O'Malley books!
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Stevie
6/3/2014 12:22:56 pm
Thanks Kathy, you made my day.
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Rayanna Jamison
6/3/2014 02:41:17 pm
This is something I'm struggling with right now in my current series. Lots of wives =lots of babies. i managed to avoid it in my first book, but It can't be avoided forever!
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Stevie
6/4/2014 03:59:37 am
No, you won't be able to avoid it for long. In my case, because I have such a big family, I had lots of 'copy' to draw from. We typically have 25 or more for holiday dinners, sit down, good china, the works. On the weekends it's more buffet style or grilling when weather permits. I think the heart of the home is the kitchen and it will probably work well in you books.
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