I must admit, the first time I read a reverse harem, I did think to myself why am I enjoying reading this? Then it hit me (and this is only my personal experience) I've been married for ten years and I have 2 small children, before I met my husband I had one long term relationship and one, one night stand. Although I'm comfortable with sex and my own experiences with it, I've never slept with more than one man at a time and I hadn't really given it too much thought. I guess I'm a bit innocent in the ways of poly relationships. Apart from the normal (ie. not reverse) harem and the odd mention at random of a threesome, I hadn't given it more than a passing thought.
I've now been reading reverse harem novels for about a year and I now find I prefer them to traditional romance novels. Perhaps its the escapism from my normal everyday life, I'm not sure but I find them to be the most wonderful, rich stories. I've also noticed that there is a strong paranormal portion of reverse harem stories. As paranormal has always been my favourite, this is another reason I'm hooked.
The key to a good imagination is to suspend your disbelief. In other words, if you start to question how something could work in real life, then you are thinking too much. To fully enjoy a good book, I find myself totally ignoring any facts or aspects that can't possibly be true. If I want to write a short story or a poem, it is inevitably about something that isn't real. I love how this world seems to slowly be coming more acceptable of different ways and people. Maybe in the future if there is a shortage of females, then we will all have multiple partners and we will look back on the past with our old fashioned idea of one man and one woman marriages and just shake our heads. I hope that is the case and I also hope that fairies and shifters and unicorns are real too. Even if it's only in our own, enlightened heads.
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