Men bigger fans of romance than women, the new study reveals

Men are bigger fans of romance than women, according to a recent study.

The survey of 2,000 US romance readers found that 63% of the surveyed men consider themselves enthusiasts of dead romance compared to 60% of women.

Men also spend more time reading romance: On average, the study found that men will speak 364 hours immersed in the year while women will speak 312 hours a year.

Commissioned by thriftbooks and carried out by Talker Research, the survey also revealed who readers are imagining when reading romance, should have the perfect reading session, misunderstandings of their favorite genre and tropes and less preferred.

Seventeen percent of married readers usually present their spouse when imagining the interest of love for a novel, 21% of responses admitted that they had blurred their famous oppression and 7% of readers even discovered that they usually imagined their ex.

For the answers that imagine celebrities, when the interest in love for a romantic novel is a woman, Gen Z Pictures Zendaya more often (39%), both millennia (26%) and Gen X (26%) imagine Angelina Jolie and Baby Boomers They said they are will think most often about Halle Berry (19%).

When the interest of love is a man, the most famous of the most common photographs among General Z readers was Timothée Chalamet (25%). For both millennia (34%) and Gen X (26%) it turns out to be tatum while the highest response to children’s booms was Brad Pitt (25%).

Before becoming romantic junga, readers said they had some wrong concepts about the category. Some common wrongdoings were that romantic books all have predictable/happy (38%) conclusions, all follow the same plot formulas (27%), and relate to romance of fairy tales without sufficient physical romance (19% ).

But after being excavated in the genre, they grew up to find out that romantic novels are often very good by writing (54%), containing spicy contents (46%), and often have surprise plot curves (37%).

By examining their most beloved tropes, the survey revealed that romance readers mostly enjoy forbidden romance (45%), lovers’ friends (44%) and enemies-for lovers (42%) plot 23%), romance Office (22%) and false meeting scenarios (21%) mostly.

“The study found that romantic tropics are limited to books,” said Barbara Hagen, a marketing vice president at Thriftbooks. “Seventy -eight percentage said a romantic trop has occurred in their real life. More than some had living meetings of love, with a respondent saying they married a man after they knew him in just five days . ”

To decide the perfect romance reading session, readers said they should have a cozy blanket (65%), a snack (46%) and a quiet home for all of them (41%).

In fact, 44% prefer to read in perfect silence, while 17% usually enjoy the sound of rainfall and 12% will return to white noise.

Answers said a typical reading session lasts slightly under an hour and a half (81 minutes), on average, but most (85%) admitted that if the book is particularly attractive, they will stay all night reading to finish it.

It is not surprising that that of all kinds of books, readers said that romance (67%) is the genre that is most likely to keep them reading all night.

By examining the anatomy of the ideal love novel, the order of the development of good character (49%) responds, realistic dialogue (33%) and abundant moments of romance (33%) as the most important characteristics.

On average, readers said they can show if they like or dislike a 33 -page romantic novel on.

However, General Z will remove long generations and read 45 pages of a book they dislike before throwing in the towel.

Gen Z (58%), Millennials (51%,) and readers of Gen X (46%) are most likely to receive a recommendation of romantic books based on plot while boomers of children’s books are most likely to receive a book if it is suggested them based on the author (50%).

Popular recommendations of romantic novels from the survey include modern readings such as “Notebook”, “End with us” and “Fifty Shades of Gray”, as well as classic titles such as “Gone with the Wind”, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Heights Wuthering. “

“Hearta angry to see that readers still read actively and recommend classic novels of romance as well as contemporary ones,” Hagen said. “And while more than some had wrong concepts before they entered the genre, the study found that many readers found romance to be more nuanced than it was originally thought.”

High celebrities presented when reading a romantic novel

Wives

Angelina Jolie – 26%

Megan Fox – 21%

Zendaya – 20%

Selena Gomez – 19%

Scarlett Johansson – 19%

Men

Channing Tatum – 26%

Brad Pitt – 22%

Chris Hemsworth – 20%

Ryan Reynolds – 19%

Chris Evans – 17%

Reading in a picture of a year

Medium books of romance read from year – 36

Average hours by reading romance by year – 312

Survey Methodology:

Talker Research surveyed 2,000 American adults who read at least 3-4 romantic novels a year; The survey was ordered by the thriftbooks and was administered and carried out online by Talker Research between Jan. 2 and Jan. 8, 2025.