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Mills and Boon Prose
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The traditional way of handling sex in a Romance Novel; Purple Prose to IKEA Erotica's Beige Prose. Physical actions and sensations are conveyed via vague euphemisms or even overblown metaphors —while emotions are described in excessive, abstract Purple Prose. Often one suspects that the writer wishes they were participating in the scene. A sure sign that you've got one of these is when abstract nouns are used to refer to genitalia. Popularly associated with, but not limited to, sex scenes. Any interaction between the main characters is fair game for this sort of emotionally charged description. This is becoming rare in real romances, which are beginning to eschew floweriness for prose that's either more direct, even crass, or else down-to-earth, maybe even funny. However, Mills and Boon Prose lives on in parodies, often used to invoke Innocent Innuendo. It also occurs in fictional documents as a form of Stylistic Suck. Can involve Anatomically Impossible Sex. If a character uses this trope in first-person narration, that goes under Thinks Like a Romance Novel. |
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The one and (thankfully) only sex scene in Vurt by Jeff Noon is described entirely in a metaphor of a garden getting filled with sap. The best that can be said of it is that it's short. | |
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Used in Flowers for Algernon in the sex scene between Charlie and Alice. It works because it's used to show how different it is when he's with a woman he loves rather than when he's just with a woman who enjoys sex. | |
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Also parodied in The Naked Gun 2½: | |
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The guidance counsellor from 10 Things I Hate About You tries writing one of these when not busy in her office. Hopefully the only time the word "bratwurst" is used in an erotic novel ever. | |
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure may be the Trope Maker. Partly justified in this case, in that the author was essentially winning a bet, writing the lewdest book he could without using any dirty words. | |
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Everyday Heroes: Dinah Might writes her Villainous Crush on Mr. Mighty into her romance novel in a scene where she imagines the hero capturing and having his way with her. | |
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The Mists of Avalon, so very much. It ends up giving the scenes in question a poetic, soulful tone. | |
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Manhattan Love Story: Dana has to edit a "light porn" novel that's full of turgid phrases. With the help of the other characters she manages to edit it into something better. | |
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MAD suggested a Danielle Steel novelization of QVC: | |
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Implied in an episode of The Nanny, when Brighton looks up from a book he found lying around and asks: "Dad, what exactly are a person's loins, and how do you make them quiver?" | |
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Every single line of My Inner Life that is not Beige Prose or Costume Porn. | |
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In Lethal Weapon 4, Ebony Clarke's writing is this all the way, but it apparently sells very well. | |
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CollegeHumor reinterprets college course texts as cheap bodice rippers. | |
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The Fountainhead. Specifically, the rape scene. | |
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In one episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mrs. Forrester gets sick and asks Crow to read to her from a book called "Love's Sweet Throbbing Gondola". He does, getting more and more uncomfortable with each sentence of the flowery sex scene he recites. | |
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The Venture Bros. showed that this could also be used for The Talk in the episode "Victor. Echo. November." One might need an unabridged dictionary to even begin to unravel the metaphors. | |
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Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen: MANCARROT. Which is still a nicer choice of words than calling Edward's penis a "throbbing lavender man-fruit thing" and Jacob's a "horrible wet mushroom"! | |
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In Questionable Content, Jimbo writes his trashy romance novels in a voice that verges on Stylistic Suck: | |
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This is the favoured writing style of Garth Marenghi and Dean Learner: | |
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Stray uses a variation of this. There are no throbbing manhoods or heaving bosoms, but the first sex scene includes at least two separate extended metaphors for the POV character's emotional state. | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: It's not so present in the first book, but the sex scenes become increasingly loaded with grandiose metaphors and descriptors. | |
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Nasuverse sex scenes are commonly a mild form of this (more so in Tsukihime than the later Fate/stay night). Oddly, they're also written in first-person perspective... | |
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On an episode of QI, it is lamented that there are no attractive slang words for a woman's genitals. Until "twinkle cave" is suggested... | |
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R15: The protagonist is a porn writer. He does this often, in a light novel that does this just as often. | |
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Parodied in this The Real Ghost Busters story: Sweet Temptation. It turns out to be Slimer watching a cooking show. | |
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An early episode of Friends has Rachel attempt to write some ("Do you think his 'love stick' can be liberated from its 'denim prison'?"), inspired by Chandler's mother, who writes them professionally. Luckily for the broadcasters, she's a terrible speller so the others can openly mock her typos; the female character is apparently in possession of "heaving beasts", while the man at one point whips out his "huge throbbing pens". | |
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Impenetrable Walls being a Chinese Palace Drama, a man wouldn't do something as vulgar as shoving his penis into his partner's hole. No, he will sheathe his jade stalk into his partner to make her flower bloom and fill her cauldron with his yang energy. Such flowery descriptions actually prevent Wei Wuxian to understand the Imperial Brother wishes to sleep with him, as everyone just keep couching it in poetic euphemisms he cannot understand. | |
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