What is dirty or is it all the same?

In class a few weeks ago we discussed the difference between the romance novel and a love story and how people mix the two up and take them for one in the same. Just as people confuse love and sex as meaning and being the same thing, which we all know to be two completely things and mean two different things. When you are young you take your infatuation with someone and mistake it for being in love, same thing happens when you start having sex at a young age you mistake sex for love or having sex with someone means that they are in love with you and you them. But that is not always the case. You learn the true meaning of love and what it means to be in love as you grow older and learn from your past mistakes. The same can be said for the meaning of sex, you learn that you do not have to be in love with someone to have sex with them and that just because that person wants to have sex with you does not mean that they love you being love with the person you are having sex with is just a bonus and a great one.

The romance novel and the love story are similar to what I was talking about in the last paragraph they are often mixed up and people are lead to believe that they are one in the same which we all know them to mean and be two totally different things just as sex and love are two totally different things. We are lead by stereotypes and society to believe that a romance novel and a love story are just two phrases used to explain the same type of book. Just as society makes the romance novel out to be this dirty obsession that many women in America have. That again implies the double standard with men and women; men have their Playboy magazines, Maxim, and Hustler that are sold almost everywhere you go and that is ok in societies eyes and men to not get looked down on or talked about in any way for buying them or reading them in fact it is a great showing of their manhood and masculinity. But on the other hand women can’t read a novel whether it be a love story or a romance novel without some sort of snide remark or a disapproving look, because to society women are reading smut and it’s dirty. But if you ask me what is dirty naked or barely dressed pin ups and pictures of women or a novel where you have to use your imagination, I’m going to go with the pictures and pinup magazines. The main reason for me is the fact that all you have to do is open the magazine to see the pictures with the novel you actually have to read!