In zones like New York City, single affluent women are abundant, and many of them are unhappy with their serial dating routines, or "love droughts". Would reading romance novels help them have happier love lives?
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Jane, I think it depends on the romance. I agree to a point about heroes not matching up to real life guys in most romances. Some can be very believable.
When I write romance, I try to write stories and characters that are believable. While it's a bit of escapism, it's also a chance to read about heroines who might be a lot like the reader and see how the fictional woman turns out by the end of the story. And to show her that there are men out there who can be romantic.
My book, A Piece of My Heart, is a good example. My hero and heroine have come very challenging times but got together in the end. I caved to reader requests to know what happened later I wrote Contant Craving, which was the same couple's first really big hurdle to cross together. It showed that even though the story had a happy ending in the novel, that in real life, it's never all roses and chocolates through life. There are obsticles and challenges and the short story showed one of them and how they worked to get through it and keep the love they found. Real life people to that every day.
If you like romance, Jane, you should give some other genres a try than what you're used to. I can recommend some great authors to try. Erotica too!
Adding to what Jane said, romance novels are fantasy. It won't make their love lives happier, but it's a big of fun escapism.
If men were to read romances, they'd see what women fantasize about and maybe try some of those techniques. Some men are very keen on the whole romance in a relationship thing.
Excellent dating advice.