Find the romance

Wow, I’m impressed. An entire page of type devoted to sex and desire in books (“A Few Words on Sex,” by Dean Kuipers, June 1) that manages to avoid mentioning the only genre that has relationships between (and among) the sexes as its subject matter. If you are truly looking “ ... for passages that capture real desire in all its frailty, unseared by cynicism, describing the compromised circumstances of the act while protecting the hope invested ... ,” I strongly recommend you check out the contemporary romances by writers like Jayne Ann Krentz and Linda Howard. They can be raunchy, explicit, tender, sensuous, awkward and funny, indeed all the things that relationships can be. Romance novels celebrate life, love, sex and desire.

Karen Martin

Simi Valley