It's biological. Goes for most women, some just try to fight it because they have been taught it's bad.
I offer one proof: check out what type of men you will find in all the romance and erotica novels, movies and television series aimed at women that sell best. Well, they are pretty much all handsome millionaires or billionaires or otherwise on top of their society, but if you take that out, and just look at their behavior? Let's take the best known ones that were made into movies: 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight, if you go old school Gone With the Wind (still on top of most lists of movies that have made most money, because it just kept on selling for decades), Gabaldon's Outlander series, what is selling right now would be Bridgerton... now, how do those male love interests in those stories treat the POV female? Especially when they first meet, and she falls in love with him?
They most certainly don't take any crap from her. They dominate, often in the older novels even force themselves on her, and take charge. They may get a bit more interested when she shows that she does have a will of her own, but they never bend to her will.
And when it comes to how they deal with other men: they seem to be pretty much always the alpha types, able to lead and domineer men too.
And even our modern, self-sufficient "we don't need any men" women who pretend that they prefer the soy boy types in their life, will pay for those stories, devour them, sometimes in secret, and daydream about the type of men they will loudly condemn if anybody asks them in their day to day life. Those stories SELL.
And for the record, I am a woman. I know what my female friends, acquaintances, and coworkers prefer to read, or watch. I am near retirement age now, and it hasn't changed much during my lifetime either, pretty much the biggest change is that most authors have dropped the forced sex between the male love interest and the female POV during the last decades.
And most of the women I have known who seemed most dependent on romance and erotica have been ones who don't have that type of men, or anybody even close to the type, in their real life.
It's called masculinity.
A Real Woman loves Real Men...
She probably never had any real men in her circle of friends. Now she knows what one looks like.
It's biological. Goes for most women, some just try to fight it because they have been taught it's bad.
I offer one proof: check out what type of men you will find in all the romance and erotica novels, movies and television series aimed at women that sell best. Well, they are pretty much all handsome millionaires or billionaires or otherwise on top of their society, but if you take that out, and just look at their behavior? Let's take the best known ones that were made into movies: 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight, if you go old school Gone With the Wind (still on top of most lists of movies that have made most money, because it just kept on selling for decades), Gabaldon's Outlander series, what is selling right now would be Bridgerton... now, how do those male love interests in those stories treat the POV female? Especially when they first meet, and she falls in love with him?
They most certainly don't take any crap from her. They dominate, often in the older novels even force themselves on her, and take charge. They may get a bit more interested when she shows that she does have a will of her own, but they never bend to her will.
And when it comes to how they deal with other men: they seem to be pretty much always the alpha types, able to lead and domineer men too.
And even our modern, self-sufficient "we don't need any men" women who pretend that they prefer the soy boy types in their life, will pay for those stories, devour them, sometimes in secret, and daydream about the type of men they will loudly condemn if anybody asks them in their day to day life. Those stories SELL.
https://wordsrated.com/romance-novel-sales-statistics/
And for the record, I am a woman. I know what my female friends, acquaintances, and coworkers prefer to read, or watch. I am near retirement age now, and it hasn't changed much during my lifetime either, pretty much the biggest change is that most authors have dropped the forced sex between the male love interest and the female POV during the last decades.
And most of the women I have known who seemed most dependent on romance and erotica have been ones who don't have that type of men, or anybody even close to the type, in their real life.