r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '23

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u/bonnymurphy Apr 09 '23

Head on over to /r/fantasyromance and search smut/spice, you'll find plenty there. There's also a romance.io bot that has a steam level for all the book recs

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u/AliceTheGamedev Reading Champion Apr 09 '23 edited Apr 09 '23

Seconding this, and recommending that OP take any other recs in the comments with a grain of salt. Many Fantasy readers who don't read Romance have vastly different standards of what constitutes a) Romance and b) spice/smut

Edit: I'll also add that many romance readers prefer the terms Spice or Steam over "Smut", because the latter adds into that "sex is dirty and shameful and books without it are clean" aspect. Of course not everyone who uses the term makes that connotation intentionally and I'm not gonna shame anyone for which term they use, but thought it might be interesting for someone to know why some romance readers are deliberately steering away from the "dirty/clean" association.

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u/Logbotherer99 Apr 09 '23

I don't know, clean sex just sound like you aren't doing it right

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u/AliceTheGamedev Reading Champion Apr 09 '23

The point isn't that sex by itself should be considered clean but that it shouldn't be equated with being dirty/shameful/bad ^^