....obviously I'll include my own novel in this list. One reviewer has compared it with Lolita, so why not now, before I forget? (I joke)....

....D.H. Laurence was not, but a serious and prolific writer on love. This major work in the repressed twenties helped set the ball rolling that snowballed into the sexual revolution of the sixties....

....much persecuted, Laurence called in the early twentieth century for a return to freedom and honesty in love and sexuality. In both society and books....

....this modern example, published 2005, an ever popular image of extreme female romantic desire, the muscular, handsome, masterful male who will sweep her away with his love....

....or he could be a downtroden slave of another race, whose exotic passion simmers unseen, but could perhaps be tapped though his equally exotic unseen parts....

....anything taboo is good. Get's pretty steamy, doesn't it?....

....perhaps in this way. In contrast to DH Laurence, Miller, in 1934, had little time for subtle romance, but depicted life more as a pig-like roll through a swamp of sexuality. But for something less crude....

....old fashioned cover that; let's try a more modern photographic style....

....but Bond is a seducer, not a lover. He does marry once, in this, one of the later novels, but Tracy doesn't last long (murdered)....

....historically, women have usually been pawns in men's games. The Trogan war, fought to retrieve Helen, whose face "launched a thousand ships," according to Homer....

....was more into drama than romance. The emphasis here is on the tragedy caused by a feud, and the famous romance is realy a vehicle to work out this tragedy....

....To refer back to the "Master of the Manor" style, the aristocratic breeding of a heroine's desired hero does not however make the novel a mere fantasy. Austen's works dissect perceptively the mannered world of....

.... a point that is perhaps more important to the rich than to the poor, as - I would argue - loosing wealth is worse than longing for it. So much of social life revolved - from early teens onwards - around....

....and irreprochable respectability. Or at least.... the appearance of the last quality. beneath the surface might be a different matter. what doi we exp[ectt of our heroes nowadays? let's start with the ladies....

....her great rival in this musical/onstage who-can-piss-farthest-up-the-wall contest (I wonder: can ladies be said to take part in these?) was Christina....

....a feeling probably shared by this author. Britney's mother, who trained her for success from childhood....