Comments on: What a Pain

By: Bookster

Bookster — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:30:25 +0000

As a guy, I can testify to wanting sex at times of “crisis.” Even including a painful testicle. Not always in painful situations, but often enough. Maybe it has to do with some biological survival impulse. Who can figure?

By: bavarian

bavarian — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:18:27 +0000

Oh I love them, all the heroes after beeing stabbed, shot at, beeing bashed nearly to death, lusting after the heroine while beeing tended (eben stiched, operated on) by her and then having sex the day after!
What I’m really angry about is that I spent money on yet another DNF.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:35:24 +0000

Romantic suspense has a bad habit of doing the lusty recovery (and miraculously fast) bit. I often avoid that genre because of that.

By: Susan/DC

Susan/DC — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:15:45 +0000

In Alissa Johnson’s “An Unexpected Gentleman” the heroine is grazed by a bullet. It hurts like anything, and when the hero tells her it’s only a minor wound, she’s majorly upset with him for his lack of sympathy. The scene was quite funny, I liked that for once the heroine didn’t play the martyr.

Of course, heroines are often held to a different standard than heroes, but I do roll my eyes when the men are ready for action after nearly losing body parts (as long as it’s not the relevant one). In the early seasons of “24″ Jack Bauer didn’t have sex, but he too bounced back like the Energizer Bunny in more episodes than not.

By: Tee

Tee — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:26:58 +0000

Yes, I was thinking the same thing, Pat. Hope you get better very quickly following your surgery. Then you can have mind-blowing sex!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:39:10 +0000

PatH AAR: I hazily remember on book where the heroine vomited, the hero helped take care of her, and then they had sex.Thanks for all the great comments!

YECH! I'm so sorry to hear that you're sick on top of everything else, Pat. Get better soon!

By: PatH AAR

PatH AAR — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:51:50 +0000

Laughed so loud at some of your comments that it brought on….pain! (And you thought I was going to say ideas about sex?!)

So now I have intestinal flu. Should be over in the next day or so says my doctor. But I’ve found another type of pain (vomiting and diarrhea, sometimes called dire rear) that also don’t produce images of sex, although I hazily remember on book where the heroine vomited, the hero helped take care of her, and then they had sex.

Thanks for all the great comments!

By: Margot

Margot — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:53:56 +0000

I remember reading a book once where the hero was stabbed in the thigh, yet still managed to be thinking of sex pretty much 24/7, even when the doctor was cleaning and bandaging the wound. (He also seemed to be erect 24/7, which is definitely a problem, not a good thing.) Usually I can suspend disbelief about recovery time, but that was just too much.

By: farmwifetwo

farmwifetwo — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:01:20 +0000

My favourite was a Robyn Carr when our heroine managed to stand on crutches and make dinner for 40 while everyone else was out with Nora and kids. Not with a minor sprane… oh no… major busted ankle including pins.

Ummmm…. having at a shrapnel mess in my right shin – 3″ long, a loonie sized piece of bone carved out – let’s just say that 3 days later I was upright, and very, very wobbly. There’s a reason my Mother was here for 12 days until I could master the stairs. It still took them 3 weeks to pull the stitches.

PINS… she had PINS and was bouncing up and down the stairs on her backside the next day. PINS!!!!!!!!

By: xina

xina — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:17:33 +0000

I recently read a book where the heroine had to dig a bullet out of the hero’s leg..yes, it was historical, and yes she really dug it out. Five pages later they were having fabulous sex. I thought…”hey, wait a minute!” But, like Tee said, onward I marched through all the pages. I just think that real life situations are not the same in a romance novel. Big gaping hole in your leg? No matter, there’s always sex. Ah, yes.