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Parneet Gosal

You're Not Escaping Your Feelings. You're Finally Having Them.

You're Not Escaping Your Feelings. You're Finally Having Them.

Contrary to what we tell ourselves, the emotion we're actually chasing when we pick up a romance novel isn't happiness. If you ask a romance reader why she reads romance, she will say "I just needed something light." She is currently on page 347

Someone Called My Newsletter Filth. She Had a Point.

Someone Called My Newsletter Filth. She Had a Point.

A reader emailed to say I was sending her filth. She had signed up herself. This is my answer.

Why We Love the Morally Grey Book Boyfriend

Why We Love the Morally Grey Book Boyfriend

Women spend most of their lives managing everyone else's emotional weather — anticipating what people need, making things easier, holding it all together. The dark romance hero has exactly one priority. You.

America Is Having Less Sex Than at Any Point Since 1990. Sexy Stories Are Booming. These Two Things Are Not Unrelated.

America Is Having Less Sex Than at Any Point Since 1990. Sexy Stories Are Booming. These Two Things Are Not Unrelated.

Americans are having less sex right now than at any point since 1990, and that number has been declining, more or less continuously, for thirty-four years. And yet — in an apparent contradiction — the market for sexy stories is growing.

The Average Penis Size, According to Science (And Nobody Told Me This When I Was Single)

The Average Penis Size, According to Science (And Nobody Told Me This When I Was Single)

I have questions. Scientific ones. I spent years as a single woman with a completely unrealistic preference for eight inches — and nobody corrected me.