From Romance World
Women have always read porn. My mother had a battered paperback on her nightstand that I read in secret as a teenager, so “spicy books” are nothing new. But Bookstagram and BookTok, plus indie publishing and ads, have turned them into something else entirely.

Back then, women read steam in hiding and felt ashamed of it. The same way they were taught to feel ashamed of being horny at all, or even having basic sexual desire. Now, readers talk openly about spice levels, laugh about kinks, swap recs in comment sections and… let’s be honest: some of …