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  Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?

Kraxenberger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8: 96. doi:10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3.

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Kraxenberger, Maria1, 2, Author           
Knoop, Christine A.1, Author           
Menninghaus, Winfried1, Author           
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1Department of Language and Literature, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society, ou_2421695              
2Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Literaturwissenschaft, Stuttgart, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the reasons underlying this preference? Most of the readers of erotic novels that responded to our survey are heterosexual women in committed relationships. They are highly educated, from a broad age span, describe themselves as avid readers and like to share their reading experiences with others. Distraction and feelings of ease were identified as prime rewards associated with reading erotic novels. The sexual explicitness of the novels and their potential to provide guidance in life also play a role, yet turned out to be less important than suggested in previous research. Contrary to critical opinion, our participants consider erotic novels––at least to a certain degree–to be emancipated, feminist, and progressive. We relate this finding primarily to the surveyed participants’ rather traditional beliefs regarding gender roles. Our study is the first to explore empirically the readership and the reading rewards underlying a current large-scale cultural phenomenon, emphasizing the need for future investigations off the literary canon.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2021-04-28
 Publication Status: Published online
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3
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Title: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  Other : Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
  Other : Palgrave Communications (formerly)
  Abbreviation : Humanit Soc Sci Commun
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Publ. Info: London ; USA : Springer Nature ; Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 8 Sequence Number: 96 Start / End Page: - Identifier: ISSN: 2055-1045
ISSN: 2662-9992
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/2055-1045