[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I write sci-fi and it is disconcerting to see around a quarter of the top 100 books in the genre have covers of shirtless men. But erotica has seeped into every genre and women buy those books by the ton.

[Gen.Blather]

I write fiction and fantasy. Here’s a link. Send me a link to your stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson

[squarebarb]

thanks for posting. Sci Fi has gone off into some weird, weird tangents.

I’m not so sure all the shirtless guys are meant to be attractive t women, but whatever.

A lot of these are self-published. It seems that you can make a buck by self-publishing porn, whether its historical romance, alien hot sex romance, fantasy Middle Ages The King-raped-me romance, and I can’t think of any others at the moment.

So maybe it’s not that Sci Fi has gone off the rails so much as self-published authors trying to make money off porn?

Since they do their own covers there must be a site where you can purchase hot pics of pecs. I mean hot shots of guys with photoshopped great bursting pecs.

They never show the guy’s faces. Maybe it doesn’t matter to women who read this stuff. ‘The Faceless Sex Lord Of Cthalwho IV Ripped off my Spacesuit And Did Unmentionable Things to Me’.

That’s a subtitle. Anybody who wants it can have it. I have tons more.

[Calvin Locke]

Met an artist years ago, and he did paperback covers while trying to establish himself.

He said pretty much the same thing: The publishers wanted more and more erotic and prurient cover art, more cleavage, bigger busts, etc.

[discostu]

Yeah we need to get back to the old days when 75% of the top 100 had mostly nekkid women on the covers.