Monday, April 07, 2014

Who are the male leads in Harlequin novels?

David Foster asks, "What does a Woman Want?" To find the answer he read the results of some research by two neuroscience researchers who
analyzed 15,000 Harlequin romance novels (fifteen thousand???) and tabulated the professions of the male leads.

I don’t know to what degree Harlequin readers are representative of romance-novel readers as a whole, nor to what degree romance-novel readers are representative of the female population as a whole…but for what it’s worth, here’s the list that resulted from the study.

1. Doctor
2. Cowboy
3. Boss
4. Prince
5. Rancher
6. Knight
7. Surgeon
8. King
9. Bodyguard
10. Sheriff

Thoughts?

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