“Real men just aren’t that sexy”: how romantasy took over women’s literature

The queue for the shop Bad Girl Books stretches down Oxford’s Walton Street for a good hour and a half. It’s the launch day of the UK’s only romantasy-only bookshop, and hundreds of young and middle-aged women are waiting to be let through its pastel-pink doors. Topless adolescent boys swagger down the street. “What is …

By Lauren Sneade