‘Medieval romance overflowed with sexually active fairies’: the surprisingly long roots of romantasy
Critics mock it as raunchy trash – but this enchanting genre is much older, and wilder, than you might imagineThere’s a popular genre, filled with beautiful, human-sized fairies having sex with humans (often quite violent sex, but the people reading it seem to enjoy it). Word is that it’s badly written and unashamedly escapist – all golden, glittering palaces, wild adventure…
Critics mock it as raunchy trash – but this enchanting genre is much older, and wilder, than you might imagineThere’s a popular genre, filled with beautiful, human-sized fairies having sex with humans (often quite violent sex, but the people reading it seem to enjoy it). Word is that it’s badly written and unashamedly escapist – all golden, glittering palaces, wild adventure…
