Meet Jayce
Well, hello there. My name is Jayce (she/they). Pronounced Jay-ss, or dʒ-eɪ-s if you’re a nerd.
I’ve been an avid romance reader since my teens. I was handed my first novel on a dare and fell in love. I was in awe of the passion and freedom that the characters seemed to experience. As an inexperienced teenager the idea of a passionate love affair appealed to many corners of my hormone infested brain.
As life continued, I kept coming back to the romance genre. It was comforting to have a story where you knew there would be a happy ending and at least a few orgasms. In the messy world of adolescent, young adult, and adult dating and terrible sex, romance novels kept hope alive for my own HEA in and out of the bedroom.
There are many places and people that celebrate the romance of the romance novel, but I’m here to celebrate the sex. Romance novels have a bad reputation of being the equivalent of porn, aka completely unrealistic descriptions of sex. But times are changing. More and more novels are creating a realistic picture for what good sex can be between people. It can help people explore their own sexuality by putting words to their needs, wants, and desires.
Sex continues to be a taboo subject in the good ol’ US of A and around the world. I am here to open a dialogue around sexual expression within the romance genre, because when we normalize sexual freedom, expression, and conversation we will free people in our society who are marginalized because of it’s current repression.
So let’s get talking…
How these posts will go.
I’m a big fan of structure and predictability, so I’ve created a format!
The Story: A comically short description of what happens with a focus on the relationship between the people involved in the central relationship.
The Sex: An overview of what kind of sex it is. I will also include what I think are the sexiest parts of the scenes.
Favorite Lines: Mostly related to the sex.
Least Favorite Lines: Same as above. Sometimes even good books have a doozy of a bad line.
Final Thoughts:
Was the overall book good?
Was the sex realistic?
Did the sex represent something positive for society?
Was it actually sexy?
What about the overall book?
Spice Level: 1-5 (All the books here will contain explicit sex, so you won’t see a fade to black.)
Kinks Explored: If any.
Voices Heard: Does this show anyone other than cis-gendered hetero white people. There are so many good who have that demographic as their main love interests, I want to acknowledge that it’s not the only option out there.
Did I like it?
Disclaimer:
I will only be discussing books written in English. I do not currently speak any other languages, so if you want to recommend an awesome novel that hasn’t been translated into English yet, I unfortunately won’t be able to read it.
All the books discussed in this blog will contain an explict sex scene. There are many awesome romance novels that do not include a graphic sex scene, but this space is here to de-stigmatize the discussion of womxn empowered sex.
I am a cis-gendered hetero-flexible white woman, and I fully admit that most of my book history has starred similar people and vampires; HOWEVER, I want to change that. Send me your recommendations where the characters are BIPOC, queer, harem, BDSM, all the shit people don’t admit to enjoying.
Check out the DEFINITIONS page, to see the language we will be using here.