menage a whatever

[crankylex]

Clearly the *in* thing right now from the ebook publishers is one woman ending up with multiple men.  This can be due to several different plot devices, like the scarcity of women on the planet, brothers choosing the same woman, whatever.

I have to suspend disbelief A LOT when I read books like this.  I totally understand the fantasy of more than one partner at a time.  I mean, if it takes a whole bunch of 'em to get you off, more power to you.

It's one thing to enjoy a menage a whatever, but it's another thing entirely to end up with more than one permanently.

My god!  One is enough of a pain in the ass.  Can you imagine two or three more?

Look at your couch.  Can you imagine THREE men sitting there, watching football, dirtying clothes that someone (probably you) will have to wash?

It's bad enough to have one hard-on poking you while you're trying to sleep.  But three?  OMGWTF.

That's not a fantasy in my book.

That is a NIGHTMARE.

It would be different if in these books everyone was involved in the relationship rather than all the men waiting around for an available female orifice.  But I can count on one hand the number of stories that feature m/m in addition to m/f and m/f/m.

Do I just not get the fantasy?  Is my fantasizer defective?

Comments

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

I was going to comment, but it turned into a post in my journal...I'm actually going to be writing something w/this sort of relationship - one woman and three men - and it's going to be messy and complicated and I'm really looking forward to the challenge of writing it. I'm hoping to avoid the pitfalls of some fo the really bad stuff out there, and the book is likely to become very long, just because it will be so very complicated.

I cannot STAND the whole Penthouse Letters type fo writing theantijoss referenced above, just FYI. :)