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  • Attention, Men: Books Are Sexy!

    08/05/2025 4:03:14 AM PDT · by C19fan · 65 replies
    NY Times ^ | August 2, 2025 | Maureen Dowd
    It was one of the most erotic things I ever heard. A man I know said he was reading all the novels of Jane Austen in one summer. At first, I figured he was pretending to like things that women like to seem simpatico, a feminist hustle. But no, this guy really wanted to read “Northanger Abbey.” Men are reading less. Women make up 80 percent of fiction sales. “Young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally,” David J. Morris wrote in a Times essay titled “The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone.”